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The Phaaaaaaaaaaaaaantom of the opera is here!
Freud was involved
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Lovely sketch, sketchy love
Provocative painter, all-around survivor
They hated it then they loved it. The French will never be pleased
made the royals pretty
Recently, millionaire real estate magnate Tim Gurner gave some helpful advice to...
Tough friend' yet romantic
Loved a storm
Not your general idiot
Scoffed at the nouveau riche, had a soft spot for wayward kids and pugs
Slow your roll
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
Some good old fashioned tentacle porn
Precocious
Not a Raphael fan
Less than almost famous
Eternally honored at Madame Tussaud’s
Yes We Ashcan
I hear dead people
Popular amongst those who frequent Renaissance Faires.
Hawaiian love story
Cooler than Lancelot
Hated Picasso
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Made in a cabin
Hated the Eiffel Tower
Wearing a vest of many colors
Ambitious and driven or greedy?
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
Just another naked lady
Witness her
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
Drop trou and pick up your trowels people, because tomorrow is officially World...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Man vs. Nature
Apple, dearie?
playas gonna play
Damn it Susan, let me get my pants on ok
Drinks before dinner?
Thalassophile: (noun) lover of the sea; one who feels safe or...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
Where will you be when the plague hits?
Sir Talks-a-lot
Ahoy, Cap'n!
A painter's lost dream on antiquity
Not just for Adam and Eve
Stairway to heaven
Maybe this will work
You've caught my soul!
For those flea-furry fetish fantasies
Take a gander at this vice
It's not what you think
Seeing red
Sometimes Halloween sneaks up on you before you’ve even had time to savor the...
Fall fashion events around the world have strutted to a close in Paris and I’m left...
If you’ve ever carried something cumbersome and metal in a narrow space (say,...
From The Story of Nastagio degli Onesti (Part I) by Sandro Botticelli in the Prado.
Proving since 1965 that drugs can make anything fun!
Colossally romantic
Hogarth was all about that pug life
Looks painful
Born from some bloody balls
P-p-p-poker Face, P-p-p-poker Face
When his morals just don't measure up
Witch, please
yet another suicidal pre-raphaelite maiden
Has nothing to do with onions
That moment when you realize adultery is bad
Self love taken too far
These dresses aren't hiding anything
The face of romance
Oh so romantic
This is the last one, I promise. *gunshot*
Important information for Americans!
A Heartbreaking Work of Academic Genius
Little pig's tail
Hard cider is good
He should have used my violin
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
Like a real-life Hidalgo!
Tom comes into some money and ditches his girl
Sunlight and cash both flow on Tom's morning routine
Not just Tom's spirits are lifted at the brothel
Who'll be there to bail you out?
We ain't saying he's a gold digger...but Hogarth is
Pretty rough punishment for debt
And we thought hanging chads were bad
Women and children first
A Wiley by any other name would be just as mind blowing
Etch a sketch
The Presidency got kinky
It's called acting
Cut him off!
Jessica Lange (left) channels Marlene Dietrich (right) as Elsa Mars. Like Dietrich...
*** SPOILER ALERT*** Haven’t watched s01 & s02 or read the secret diary? You...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
The only occasions when horror films seem to garner an ounce of respect, is when...
Gesamtkunstwerk is one of those words that, in English, not only sounds...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
The political circus indeed
Seems like everyone's got a hand in the pot
This town is out of control
Build a bridge and get over it
Don't be such a nut
…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
Can’t touch this
Three guys walk into a bar...
From Marge Simpson vs. Barbara Bush, to Hillary vs. the internet, feuds between...
We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...
T-Swift’s new music video for Bad Blood is amaaaazing. As huge fans of kick-ass...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
What this is however is a really awesome meme we can’t wait to implement. I put my...
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
A tender moment before mass murder
Highly disturbing
Marriage gone wrong
Stank face
This past Tuesday we were treated to the highly anticipated Democratic debate. In...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
This cult ‘90s movie made a lasting impression, inspiring terrifying fashion trends...
Artist Biopics - Part One: March 7
An unfortunate moral dilemma…
An innocent red dot
Amidst GOP debates on hand to penis size ratio (in other worlds, who has the...
The immortal Zsa Zsa Gabor.We recently brought you zany quotes from Hollywood...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
Yay! It’s time for my fellow Aries babies, born between March 20 to April 20 we’re...
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
He's wicked...wicked hot
Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
An art bromance or something more? Land art celebrity and hippie...
Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
Fashion Alert! Harajuku girls invade Hawaii! The Honolulu Museum of...
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
Autumn is fast upon us, and you know what that means! Warm beverage season is...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
Leonor Fini was an artist of her own self-fashioned Surrealism, known for her bold...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Cinderella’s Castle at Walt Disney World If you’re ever judged for your...
Welsh model/reality TV star Imogen Thomas sparked a Twitter war over her...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
Rococ-oh myyyyy! It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
Are you tired of eating the same iteration of meat, potatoes, and casserole every...
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
So get ready!
Feminist art theory emerged in the 60s in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
Welcome to Death Do Us Art, an online bridal expo for art lovers.I’ve found five...
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
This week, behold Hans Holbein the Younger’s Darmstadt Madonna.
It’s June again (the onset of wedding season), so I’m reviving Sarah's...
Sofonisba Anguissola was one of the first female artists to gain international...
Who on this list got kitschy ties? Happy Father’s Day! It’s that special...
Don’t worry if everyone says STEM is the only field hiring and that a liberal arts...
Writing about boobs is one of our favorite jobs here at Sartle headquarters. While...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
Ostagram is a Russian website that combines two images using neural networks, a...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
The Rembrandt of the video age
Everyone loves a good heist movie, especially when the leading man is a hunk. But...
The artistic collaboration between Kanye West and George Condo is akin to that...
Gerda Taro, the talented, courageous, and brilliant photographer was brushed...
Halloween’s got something for everyone. There’s the best parties this side of New...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
Check out this beaut! Here is the clearest photo we’ve ever had of Pluto, taken by...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
2020 was more static than usual, and you may not have been able to see as much art...
This just in: Sartle makes new friends! Amelia, Victoria, and...
Aptly titled “The Hangover” by Henri de Toulouse-LautrecAs I sit here typing,...
Disclaimer: This article contains amazon affiliate links. Can any biographer...
*** SPOILER ALERT*** ...obviously. Well, we're halfway through the new...
Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
There are a lot of reasons to be upset recently. The changing political climate,...
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
Let some of the most romantic artist couples of all time inspire your LOVE this...
Jules Tavernier’s representations of the Elem Pomo culture might be over one...
On the eve of the 2017 Primetime Emmys, we at Sartle recall our longstanding...
Vincent Van Gogh once gave artists the following advice: “What is done in...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
…and here they are again, looking Bond-ish…
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s must not have been a fun time to be a...
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
Thrill Murray by Mike Coley. 2013. Never miss a chance to ride the coattails of...
Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
Rejoice comic book lovers! September 25th is National Comic Book Day (...
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
Sartle Team members from near and far tore themselves from their laptops and...
Jasper is judging you for not following us. Our second monthly get together...
Goering was eager to be thought of as a man of culture, and he was also Hitler’s...
We’ve all seen American Gothic, or heard the title at the very least. It’s the...
Is Jeff Koons taking on collaborations with open arms or awkward hand...
Who said that you can’t be a mother and an artist at the same time? ...
Image: Fred W. McDarrah/ The Village VoiceJohn Perreault, an artist, critic and...
We’re obsessed with Game of Thrones this season, and are thanking the old...
The day that is NOT Mexican Independence Day and IS the celebration of the Mexican...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
Pastels just might be the most underrated medium in all of art history. You rarely...
The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
Groovy baby, yea! Party time, excellent! From Austin Powers, to Wayne’s World, to...
Pumpkins are everywhere this season. On our doorsteps, in our coffee, in every...
Last week, our across-the-way pal Gallery 308 opened for its inaugural exhibition,...
Please join us (and everybody else) February 7, 2014 at noon in the Florence Gould...
When we left off in Part 1, we were certain of the inevitable end of Bey Z. To be...
Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...
Despite our recent efforts to do right by “The Donald” by generously drafting up a...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
You’ve been sitting at home in your sweatpants in the dark for days, binge-watching...
Ah New York City… Maybe you watched Friends and are enamored with brick...
Sartle was invited to check out the de Young’s newest exhibition, “The Summer of...
Thomas Cole, The Oxbow, 1836 The Hudson River was a group of New York-based...
Paolozzi as the god of art, fire, and other dangerous things? Photo by Ezinda...
At Sartle, we choo-choo-choose you! Saying I’m not a big fan of corporate holidays...
First of all, I clearly had no idea what I was talking about, because there is tons...
In the bestseller The Goldfinch the New York Metropolitan Museum is bombed and 13-...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
Not everything has to do something, James. Who doesn’t love a James Bond Movie? We...
To show how far this game of telephone that we call “St. Patrick’s Day” has gone, I...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
SOURCEThe brand spankin’ new redesign has haters, sure, but we think it’s seven...
“The more we’re governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more...
Almost as soon as the city shut down in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
Whether it’s your favorite excuse to be romantic or it’s just another...
YUUGE NEWS! Donald J. Trump is now a Sartle social media correspondent! Corrupt...
Alexander the Great and Campaspe in the Studio of Apelles by Giovanni Battista...
Art will always be a medium of self-expression and experimentation. During the last...
Portrait of Alexander Hamilton by John Trumbull at Washington University Law...
The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
…and five epic Oscar losses. But he’s finally done it! Here’s how:
Game of Thrones premiered last week, and accordingly, I’ve continued our series of...
Christmas came early this year at Sartle headquarters!Dali’s super rare and super...
The lighting crew of the Palace deserve a huge round of applause, the architecture...
Hear ye, hear ye: “Miss Piggy to receive feminist award,” squeals girl power blog...
Mona Lisa confirmed to be Trump’s ancestor after conservationists find...
A Boy and a Girl with a Cat and an Eel by Judith Leyster
Thanks to this Creators Project blog by Emerson Rosenthal, I learned I can finally...
Just a few things about me: I love cuddles and all things sexy, which I make...
“Lili y Gerda”, Gerda WegenerWith the Oscars just around the corner, and my very...
MuseumHack, an energetic bunch of nerds famous for giving the world’s...
What is a garden? Artist Cathy Lu explores this surprisingly multi-faceted concept...
Bigger, Badder, and More Realistic If you like hot bods, ugly babies, and...
SOURCESeriously credentialed French officials are proclaiming that a painting found...
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
This week, behold Pablo Picasso’s Le Rêve (The Dream).
When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...
Picture books can be one of the best formats for imparting a love of art and...
Valentine’s Day can be a polarizing holiday. Romantic folk, like my roommate...
We (Sartle) are always on the prowl for new ways to bigly share our great love for...
Ccontrary to social media’s endorsements, “liking” a photograph isn’t the same as...
I’m not saying Hamilton the Musical saved Alexander Hamilton’s face from getting...
Last year, Sartle sponsored a panel at Art Market San Francisco– See Art...
Behind every famous artist is a fine feline, history tells us.Today, Team Sartle is...
I was going to do a post about how Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain is one big...
Test your art history chops with Sartle's exciting new quiz feature! Both fun and...
In her honor, we were able to gain access to the Carter Family Portrait Gallery,...
John as Jack as Joker. I’m obsessed with John Malkovich so imagine my...
Ever been curious about what goes on in those fancy MFA programs, but don't have...
While we at Sartle fancy ourselves pioneers of art history humor, we know that for...
Nothing beats having a brother. Knowing you have a partner in crime is essential in...
By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...
At the beginning and end of the Alice Neel “People Come First” exhibit, you’ll find...
Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
Happy Lunar New Year everybody! All in all, Year of the Rooster has been...
This video of kids reacting to a rotary phone has us simultaneously laughing at how...
Have you met San Francisco’s most famous citizen, Karl? Karl the FOG, that...
Oh Banksy… I am not your biggest fan. Look, I don’t know what graffiti is...
We didn’t think anything could top Beyoncé’s Formation video until we watched her...
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
Whether you’re new to art or an old hand, Edinburgh is an incredible place for an...
Sometime between using the “1-Click” function on Amazon, buying groceries at...
This week we have The Temptation of Saint Anthony by Salvador Dali, housed in the...
A gamer I am not, but a Pokémon trainer I am.The one and only gaming console I have...
Little backstory for the gentiles: Purim is basically the Jewish Halloween. We...
Welcome back to Think Before You Ink, a series where we show the worst of the worst...
We do! But carving is a whole other story… Last year, we summoned some dead...
Jan Miense Molenaer, the Kylie Jenner of his generation. So if you’re all about ...
They’re coming for your books. Biblioclasm is the practice of...
Hung Liu with her work Resident Alien in 1988 (credit) The...
No need for art galleries when your closet is your own personal museum and the...
Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health issues in the world, so...
Today is #MuseumSelfie Day! That means that today, you don’t have to fight your...
We’re at the final book here in the trilogy, and because we’re going by book and...
Nude lips have been killing it extra hard for at least the past year, and even...
Spot the odd one out! There’s something unusual going on at Legion of Honor...
Minimalism was the art movement of many names – ABC Art, Object Art, Primary...
[Venice. Mrs. Peggy Guggenheim in her palace on the Grand Canal, 1950 by David...
Seated Woman by Henri MatisseIn happy art news, a painting stolen from renowned art...
So here we are with the second part of our story, Catching Fire. When we left...
The 20th season of The Bachelor just wrapped up, with software salesman Ben Higgins...
Dadaism was created with the intention of turning both the art world and the...
I want YOU...to check out this new exhibit at the de Young. It’s called...
If it weren’t for the Medici family, some of our favorite Renaissance artists...
The Monuments Men were charged with saving as many European cultural treasures as...
One thing art teachers never tell you in school is that sometimes the next best...
On a beautiful Tuesday afternoon, John Cappetta and I made our merry way over...
One very not cool thing about the Met: it’s on half of the planet’s short-list...
Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
Natural pigments are naturally occurring substances used to impart color and come...
The newest exhibition at the Asian Art Museum advertises itself as an engagement of...
Mental health issues restrict an artist’s ability to create. But, art can also...
March means Easter, and we all know that Easter means chocolate eggs, cute lil’...
Whaam! Boom! Pow! Turns out all the superheroes we love and the...
Put on your bowler hat and take a trip to Magritte’s world....
As any rabid fan of Ru Paul's Drag Race will tell you, the competing queens are...
Jessica recently let us know that she’d found some of Sartle’s work on Hieronymus...
Last year we provided you with some art-themed Valentines to give to your Valentine...
