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It’s been a few years since the last Harry Potter movie and/or book were released...

Impressionism at a Glance: You Mean Those Smudges Are Intentional? Flowers,...

Portrait of Alexander Hamilton by John Trumbull at Washington University Law...

Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...

Surrealist-influenced poster for The Strange Woman, starring Hedy Lamarr.In 1930s...

The 20th season of The Bachelor just wrapped up, with software salesman Ben Higgins...

Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...

SOURCESeriously credentialed French officials are proclaiming that a painting found...

YBAs are so fetch.    Once upon a time in the 1980s, London was...

Dadaism was created with the intention of turning both the art world and the...

In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...

I want YOU...to check out this new exhibit at the de Young. It’s called...

Spot the odd one out! There’s something unusual going on at Legion of Honor...

If you think the art world is full of sophisticated blue bloods standing around...

At what point do evil dictators shift from making art to collecting it?  Well,...

Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...

Today in art history we toast what would have been the 112th birthday of Modernist...

66 years ago today, the world was introduced to the psychedelic masterpiece...

Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...

The one and only: Zsa Zsa GaborThis February would have marked the 100th birthday...

Carlo Carrà, Funeral of the Anarchist Galli  Beginning just nine years...

We’re drooling over this clever shirt featuring our favorite crime-fighting...

Since so many social media sites like to block the following images I encourage you...

As quickly as it appeared, the Google Arts and Culture app has disappeared from...

The artistic collaboration between Kanye West and George Condo is akin to that...

The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...

It’s tough to be a princess in art history, pop culture, or even in real life.  ...

The immortal Zsa Zsa Gabor.We recently brought you zany quotes from Hollywood...

Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...

Fair warning: if you do not want to hear my incessant ramblings about how glorious...

Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...

Happy Lunar New Year everybody! All in all, Year of the Rooster has been...

Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...

Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...

From Marge Simpson vs. Barbara Bush, to Hillary vs. the internet, feuds between...

Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...

The neighborhood of Harlem in New York City is home to many great things –...

Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...

Sometime between using the “1-Click” function on Amazon, buying groceries at...

From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...

Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...

Check out our earlier post of nip slips through art history.Miley Cyrus has become...

It’s that time of year again, folks. Time to think up some creative present...

  The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...

The Oscars are nigh, and the agents of cinematic fortune have gifted the world’s...

Amidst GOP debates on hand to penis size ratio (in other worlds, who has the...

In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...

Scripturient, adj.: having a strong urge to write.

sourceThe Man in the High Castle season 2, your next online TV addiction after The...

Christopher Columbus was not the man your grade school teachers told you about...

This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...

Photo courtesy of Classical Art MemesThis past Sunday was the 88th Academy Awards...

Image: Jacob Lawrence. From The Migration Series, 1940-41. At MOMA. February 2016...

It’s the Lunar New Year, and as you may know, this year we are ushering in the...

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When we left off in Part 1, we were certain of the inevitable end of Bey Z. To be...

Happy Bastille Day, everyone!  It happens ten days after the 4th of July in France...

Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...

Gerda Taro, the talented, courageous, and brilliant photographer was brushed...

With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...

Marisol Escobar was a beautiful, talented, peculiar it-girl with a knack for...

  It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...

“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...

Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...

You can fake a lot of things. Orgasms, boobs, degrees. And paintings, of course....

Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....

Last week, our across-the-way pal Gallery 308 opened for its inaugural exhibition,...

It’s time to don your rainbow attire because June is gay pride month! While many of...

We admit, we miss us some Lady Gaga, which is why we were so excited to see her...

Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.

On the eve of the 2017 Primetime Emmys, we at Sartle recall our longstanding...

Last Friday night’s grand opening at Embark Gallery was a true show-stopper for the...

Well folks, it's that time of year again. The sun is high in the sky and...

To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...

As of 5:30 PM BST on Wednesday September 9, 2015 (that’s 9:30 am for us Yanks on...

We’ve all seen American Gothic, or heard the title at the very least. It’s the...

  Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...

We’re obsessed with Game of Thrones this season, and are thanking the old...