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Brand spankin' new!
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On the eve of the 2017 Primetime Emmys, we at Sartle recall our longstanding...
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Fort Worth a trip
Not made of crystals
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Image: Jacob Lawrence. From The Migration Series, 1940-41. At MOMA. February 2016...
Hallelujah!
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The Latin LACMA
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American People Series #19: U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Advent of...
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Botticelli grows old and violent
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Graphic novel? Graphic blanket.
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Check it out, bro!
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Anyone bring any napkins?
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Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
Misere is widespread depression caused specifically by the painful juxtaposition of...
Munch to my lazy chagrin, I needn’t have gotten so creative with my cocktail. A...
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From The Story of Nastagio degli Onesti (Part I) by Sandro Botticelli in the Prado.
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Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
Life in Iowa sucks
Check your home security system people
Whole Foods sold cigarettes?
Witness her
Price channels his inner Salome, a la Hans Cranach the Younger in this publicity...
Of all the Christmas traditions this time of the year, Santa Claus is...
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Men react to the friendzone
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Picture books can be one of the best formats for imparting a love of art and...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
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Photo courtesy of Classical Art MemesThis past Sunday was the 88th Academy Awards...
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…and five epic Oscar losses. But he’s finally done it! Here’s how:
O say can you see
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The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
It says “nude,” right?
I overdid it
Don't look at me!
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Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
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Everyone has a goth phase
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Marisol Escobar was a beautiful, talented, peculiar it-girl with a knack for...
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They’re coming for your books. Biblioclasm is the practice of...
Who doesn’t love the 4th of July? It’s our nation’s best excuse to fire up the...
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Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
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Bleeding red, white, and blue
Examine your systemic racism
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Hung Liu with her work Resident Alien in 1988 (credit) The...
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Dadaism was created with the intention of turning both the art world and the...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
Electronic Superhighway: Continental U.S., Alaska, Hawaii by Nam June Paik
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YBAs are so fetch. Once upon a time in the 1980s, London was...
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The past is female
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It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
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Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
Tarantism (n.): a psychological condition characterized by an...
Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
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Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
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RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
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If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
With big changes by little hands come monstrous reactions rife with pungent...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
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Welcome to Jurassic Art. *cue music*
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Gothic tipi?
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Thalassophile: (noun) lover of the sea; one who feels safe or...
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*** SPOILER ALERT*** Haven’t watched s01 & s02 or read the secret diary? You...
Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836 The Hudson River was a group of New York-based...
She does sound like a pretty nice person and a great mom so there is that…..
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