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Surprise, sexism in the Victorian era
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Brand spankin' new!
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Rich girl gets bitten by the communist bug
Taxes too high? Naked horse ride, baby.
Lil' Bee Bee sees right through ya
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Baby won’t you light my fire
Warp speed
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Rebel in pantaloons
Nothin' but the nasty
Stuck in the asphalt with you
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Magritte doesn't get mad, he gets stabby
Cubist dream
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Ring around the rosie
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So about that American Dream…
Where did the time go?
“Everything means nothing if I can’t have you…”
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Literal love child
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Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
Don’t make me summon the ancestors
Image: Fred W. McDarrah/ The Village VoiceJohn Perreault, an artist, critic and...
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Too truisms
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With big changes by little hands come monstrous reactions rife with pungent...
Ah New York City… Maybe you watched Friends and are enamored with brick...
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…and here they are again, looking Bond-ish…
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One very not cool thing about the Met: it’s on half of the planet’s short-list...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
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The Sartle team had a madcap week running around Washington, DC and New York City...
Cinderella’s Castle at Walt Disney World If you’re ever judged for your...
Image: Jacob Lawrence. From The Migration Series, 1940-41. At MOMA. February 2016...
In January 2014, my husband and I traveled to Italy, stopping in Rome, Florence,...
Sometime between using the “1-Click” function on Amazon, buying groceries at...
Who doesn’t love the 4th of July? It’s our nation’s best excuse to fire up the...
Yes, you read that right. And why shouldn’t we celebrate the porcelain ...
T-Swift’s new music video for Bad Blood is amaaaazing. As huge fans of kick-ass...
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American People Series #19: U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Advent of...
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She does sound like a pretty nice person and a great mom so there is that…..
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
Walk along the Water of Leith in Dunedin (also known as Edinburgh), following the...
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MuseumHack, an energetic bunch of nerds famous for giving the world’s...
Summer, the most idyllic of times for the beloved cross-country American ramble, is...
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It’s time to don your rainbow attire because June is gay pride month! While many of...
Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
Ahh, Versailles, the disgustingly opulent palace of French royals, and boy is it...
Whaam! Boom! Pow! Turns out all the superheroes we love and the...
Christopher Columbus was not the man your grade school teachers told you about...
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On a beautiful Tuesday afternoon, John Cappetta and I made our merry way over...
I was going to do a post about how Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain is one big...
This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
Fair warning: if you do not want to hear my incessant ramblings about how glorious...
The party in full swing on the front lawn. Photo: Bahara Emami. This past month...
If you think the art world is full of sophisticated blue bloods standing around...
(image via Phaidon)Put on your itsy-bitsy teenie weenie yellow polka dot bikini and...
First of all, I clearly had no idea what I was talking about, because there is tons...
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In addition to briefing Sandi on our progress, we discussed weighty matters of art...
Sartle got our sparkle on at the 5th annual Shine A Light event at Portland Art...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
Earlier this fall, Tania and I had the amazing opportunity to travel to the East...
Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836 The Hudson River was a group of New York-based...
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
The day that is NOT Mexican Independence Day and IS the celebration of the Mexican...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
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Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
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Tania and I were desperate for a “day” off and decided a tour of the mid-west was...
So what’s got museums’ panties in a bunch now? In a nutshell: President Trump’s...
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
I’ll be very easy to spot since I’ll be wearing a pair of the super amazing x-ray...
Leonor Fini was an artist of her own self-fashioned Surrealism, known for her bold...
That eternal postman always rings twice, even for famous artists. Here are some...
Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health issues in the world, so...
This just in: Sartle makes new friends! Amelia, Victoria, and...
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Carlo Carrà, Funeral of the Anarchist Galli Beginning just nine years...
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Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
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Whether you’re new to art or an old hand, Edinburgh is an incredible place for an...
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Stelliferous (adj.) [ste-lif-er-uh s] Having or abounding with stars. The...
Scottish sculptor, graphic artist, philanthropist and feigned madman. Also saw the...
San Francisco’s de Young Museum is a standout among other fine arts museums across...
Self-Portrait with Japanese Print by Vincent van Gogh Bipolar disorder,...
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“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
As any rabid fan of Ru Paul's Drag Race will tell you, the competing queens are...
To me, Valentine’s Day is a day to shout ‘LOVE!’ from the rooftops....
Little backstory for the gentiles: Purim is basically the Jewish Halloween. We...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
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The ‘Evel’ Kinevel of the art scene
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
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Sir Shameless
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Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
As the holidays approach and merrymaking intensifies, the pressure to...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
Eli and Edythe Broad are two of America’s top rock star philanthropists. You may...
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Feliz Cinco de Mayo! This is the day we remember the Mexican army’s 1862 victory...
