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From The Story of Nastagio degli Onesti (Part I) by Sandro Botticelli in the Prado.
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This week we start with a classic: Vincent Van Gogh’s The Starry Night, housed at...
San Francisco Art Institute is offering two new online college classes...
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Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
Amidst GOP debates on hand to penis size ratio (in other worlds, who has the...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
Jessica Lange (left) channels Marlene Dietrich (right) as Elsa Mars. Like Dietrich...
Image: Jacob Lawrence. From The Migration Series, 1940-41. At MOMA. February 2016...
I’m visiting my parents in San Francisco and, like all children of parents on the...
Fall fashion events around the world have strutted to a close in Paris and I’m left...
(image via Phaidon)Put on your itsy-bitsy teenie weenie yellow polka dot bikini and...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
Portrait of Alexander Hamilton by John Trumbull at Washington University Law...
The most important takeaway, however, was the immediate realization that this is a...
You wouldn’t expect to uncover a spiritual path in the halls of a museum, but the...
Don’t worry, no one slipped some acid into your drink earlier, but if they did, you...
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“The more we’re governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more...
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We here at Sartle are super(naturally) excited for the much anticipated return of...
Welcome to Death Do Us Art, an online bridal expo for art lovers.I’ve found five...
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Thalassophile: (noun) lover of the sea; one who feels safe or...
They’re coming for your books. Biblioclasm is the practice of...
Have you met San Francisco’s most famous citizen, Karl? Karl the FOG, that...
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Inspired by the Google Cultural Institute’s virtual Bruegel exhibit, we decided to...
Drop trou and pick up your trowels people, because tomorrow is officially World...
This week we have The Scream by Edvard Munch housed in the National Museum of Art,...
…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
The day that is NOT Mexican Independence Day and IS the celebration of the Mexican...
(Source: Aniplex) In Delightworks's mobile game Fate Grand...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
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We’re obsessed with Game of Thrones this season, and are thanking the old...
What this is however is a really awesome meme we can’t wait to implement. I put my...
Hamartia (n.) - A tragic flaw It's an old Greek word shot into...
The Monuments Men were charged with saving as many European cultural treasures as...
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This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
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Check out this beaut! Here is the clearest photo we’ve ever had of Pluto, taken by...
Spot the odd one out! There’s something unusual going on at Legion of Honor...
From Marge Simpson vs. Barbara Bush, to Hillary vs. the internet, feuds between...
We love stories about stolen artworks. Here is a stolen art story that hit the...
Sartle Team members from near and far tore themselves from their laptops and...
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This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger by Robert Mapplethorpe at the Scottish National Gallery of...
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