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Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
The Legion of Honor's new exhibit Gods in Color: Polychromy in the...
Spot the odd one out! There’s something unusual going on at Legion of Honor...
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Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
Please join us (and everybody else) February 7, 2014 at noon in the Florence Gould...
Big Alma's pride and joy
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Rococ-oh myyyyy! It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
“You get what you get,” Sarah Lucas hurriedly blurts out when passed the nearly...
This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
Pastels just might be the most underrated medium in all of art history. You rarely...
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19th Century Wolverine
Some say it ruins the view
ZZ Top beard
Who said the world of commerce has to be boring?
Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
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Largest collection of Monets, DUH
Rocked the Rococo World
Enter Trivium Art History Project. Our friends at Trivium are creating a cathedral...
If looks could kill
Earlier this summer, San Franciscans traded in their usual boho chic to revel in...
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It’s a bird! It’s a plane! No, it’s a studio boat!
Stick it to The Man
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SOURCESeriously credentialed French officials are proclaiming that a painting found...
Beloved wife, sort of...
How do I look?
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Mona Lisa #1: “The Wonder Lisa”
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Mary Poppins?
Critics poo-poo him
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
Swing, swingers, it's all the same
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
Jesus has had enough!
Christopher Columbus was not the man your grade school teachers told you about...
Environmental types may protest
How the Impressionists got their name
Monet’s lily pond salvation
Monet dancing in the snow
On the outside looking in
It's a hard knock life
Young, dumb and in love
Bad and Boujee
Impressionism at a Glance: You Mean Those Smudges Are Intentional? Flowers,...
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
What does Red look like? Fire truck Red. A bright Red fire truck in a...
Ciao from Venizia
Time-lapse photography was invented here
It's like a painting, see?
Monet paints choo choo trains
In a hard time
Manet could never
Late night liaisons
Not unraveling the moral fabric, probably
Thou hast seen nothing yet
Just another pervy kid in Paris
This week, behold Pablo Picasso’s Le Rêve (The Dream).
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
Portrait of Alexander Hamilton by John Trumbull at Washington University Law...
Happy Lunar New Year everybody! All in all, Year of the Rooster has been...
Grisly murder
Like a crayon box threw up
Eye of the beholder
Same bridge, different day
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(Image from arunadsouza) Hide the boobies! In recent art news, Pablo Picasso’s The...
Warning: this painting may cause extreme déjà vu
Woman with a Parasol - Madame Monet and Her Son by Claude Monet at the National...
No more tacky inspirational Martin Luther King Jr. quotes about how he had a...
Let’s paint here, they won’t find us
Do the locomotion with me
Thalassophile: (noun) lover of the sea; one who feels safe or...
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
This will be a strange world without Jon Stewart on The Daily Show. But we’ll...
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The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
We’re drooling over this clever shirt featuring our favorite crime-fighting...
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
Welsh model/reality TV star Imogen Thomas sparked a Twitter war over her...
March means Easter, and we all know that Easter means chocolate eggs, cute lil’...
Getting to the Chichu Museum in Naoshima like... The Chichu...
Freaky families
I would like to paint the way a bird sings. - Claude Monet
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
Jasper is judging you for not following us. Our second monthly get together...
While we at Sartle fancy ourselves pioneers of art history humor, we know that for...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
Everyone loves a good heist movie, especially when the leading man is a hunk. But...
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
Rococo is an ornamental style of art and interior design which originated in...
All Children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once one grows up...
Sartle Team members from near and far tore themselves from their laptops and...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
Jules Tavernier’s representations of the Elem Pomo culture might be over one...
(L-R Malala Yousafzai, a potato, and Yoko Ono)According to photographer Kevin...
Cinderella’s Castle at Walt Disney World If you’re ever judged for your...
Clueless has become as classically vintage as Cher’s 1972 columns with traces of...
Welcome to Death Do Us Art, an online bridal expo for art lovers.I’ve found five...
So get ready!
Acclaimed art collector Shawn “Jay Z” Carter once wisely said, “I bought some...
Could it be?? The couch gag…..a BRAND NEW museum-themed couch gag? A gag that...
via unimpressionism Realism can refer to two things: the representation of the...
Happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate! By the way, did you know your turkey is...
But what would Banksy buy? How about Henri Toulous-Lautrec? Frida Kahlo? Given the...
No need for art galleries when your closet is your own personal museum and the...
If Kanye wants to be like Pablo, we can make that happen.Say what you want about...
Here is Marina Abramović’s Portrait with Scorpion (2005) We’re celebrating our...
This Wednesday, Sartle is crushing on some serious babes. We’re talking Lily...
Yesterday, we presented you with 6 influential African American artists in art...
Whether you paced yourself or binged the entire new season of the...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
Is Jeff Koons taking on collaborations with open arms or awkward hand...
In the bestseller The Goldfinch the New York Metropolitan Museum is bombed and 13-...
Alexander the Great and Campaspe in the Studio of Apelles by Giovanni Battista...
You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
“For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes...
Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
This week, behold Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi.
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
As an art historian I often find myself correcting people’s misconceptions (a lot...
…and here they are again, looking Bond-ish…
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
What most people think they know about Marie Antoinette could fill...
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
It’s been a few years since the last Harry Potter movie and/or book were released...
Is there a name more iconic than Guggenheim? Most of us are likely familiar...
This cult ‘90s movie made a lasting impression, inspiring terrifying fashion trends...
Parents say the darndest things. Art can be hard to understand but like it or not,...
Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
It’s baa-aack.Scathing, clever and poignant as ever. BoJack Horseman Season 3 is...
“The more we’re governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more...
Nothing beats having a brother. Knowing you have a partner in crime is essential in...
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Thrill Murray by Mike Coley. 2013. Never miss a chance to ride the coattails of...
Minimalism was the art movement of many names – ABC Art, Object Art, Primary...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Seated Woman by Henri MatisseIn happy art news, a painting stolen from renowned art...
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
Before oil paint, European artists were at the mercy of eggs. That's because egg...
Mona Lisa confirmed to be Trump’s ancestor after conservationists find...
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At what point do evil dictators shift from making art to collecting it? Well,...
Lock-picking mastermind with impeccable literary taste. STORY TIME...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
You can fake a lot of things. Orgasms, boobs, degrees. And paintings, of course....
The games have nearly begun. And I'm not talking about the Hunger Games,...
The lighting crew of the Palace deserve a huge round of applause, the architecture...
…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
Before we begin, let’s take a page out of Jan Steen’s book.
On March 31st, 2016, the world lost Zaha Hadid (b. 1950, Baghdad, Iraq). Zaha...
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President Obama must still be getting flak from angry art historians over that...
What makes a good movie great? A trip to the museum, that’s what. To...
