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While we at Sartle fancy ourselves pioneers of art history humor, we know that for...
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Cutting racial commentary
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This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
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Time to snatch yo wigs
Standing guard
This week, behold Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi.
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This week, behold Pablo Picasso’s Le Rêve (The Dream).
This week, behold Hans Holbein the Younger’s Darmstadt Madonna.
Flaming June by Frederic Leighton at the Ponce Museum of Art
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This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
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Singin’ in a ring
An unfortunate moral dilemma…
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Warhol takes the piss out of tradition
Men react to the friendzone
Feeding your dogs a diet of girls who friendzone you
Miss. Manners says murder at the dinner table is rude
"Mom! You're embarrassing me!"
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Andy Warhol. Self-Portrait with Skull, 1977. When I think of Andy Warhol, it’s all...
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X” Marks the Spot
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From The Story of Nastagio degli Onesti (Part I) by Sandro Botticelli in the Prado.
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Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
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Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
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The newest exhibition at the Asian Art Museum advertises itself as an engagement of...
American People Series #19: U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Advent of...
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In the bestseller The Goldfinch the New York Metropolitan Museum is bombed and 13-...
Self-Portrait with Japanese Print by Vincent van Gogh Bipolar disorder,...
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Before we begin, let’s take a page out of Jan Steen’s book.
I’m visiting my parents in San Francisco and, like all children of parents on the...
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Camille Claudel is known for her narrative bronze and marble sculptures. She...
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Getting to the Chichu Museum in Naoshima like... The Chichu...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
The day that is NOT Mexican Independence Day and IS the celebration of the Mexican...
In the predominantly European dudeified world of architecture, Maya Lin always knew...
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Natural pigments are naturally occurring substances used to impart color and come...
