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The Phaaaaaaaaaaaaaantom of the opera is here!
Ladies looking tired of the night
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If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
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Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Gatsby eat your heart out
Morning in mid-Montmartre
A quiet day at the brothel
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
They hated it then they loved it. The French will never be pleased
The OG wet t-shirt contest
Scary cat hogs all the gravity
Bad weather, good painting
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
Imitation is the sincerest form of brown-nosing
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Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
Gertrude Stein was an American author, known for her Paris salon of writers and...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Impressionism at a Glance: You Mean Those Smudges Are Intentional? Flowers,...
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If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
Before Twiggy, there was Dovima
If Kanye wants to be like Pablo, we can make that happen.Say what you want about...
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
Rococ-oh myyyyy! It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...
Jessica Lange (left) channels Marlene Dietrich (right) as Elsa Mars. Like Dietrich...
Surrealist-influenced poster for The Strange Woman, starring Hedy Lamarr.In 1930s...
via unimpressionism Realism can refer to two things: the representation of the...
Self-portraits go way back and for good reason. As the author of 55 of them, Frida...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
Camille Claudel is known for her narrative bronze and marble sculptures. She...
If there was ever a College Board for artists, it would be the art academies of...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
Rococo is an ornamental style of art and interior design which originated in...
Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet - the painting that changed it all.
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
“We thought the best way to help people understand Van Gogh’s life was to...
I’d be blue too if a rich artist made $100k off my photo. Photo @doedeerePablo...
When people talk about “realism” in art, they are typically referring to one...
Unlike so many of the countless women artists cast aside by art history, Berthe...
You'll want to come dressed to impressed because the Mad Hatter has made a...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
Hey, I’m Maya! I started interning at Sartle a little over a month ago along with...
In 2011, the United Nations declared that July 30 would forever be known as the...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
Pastels just might be the most underrated medium in all of art history. You rarely...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
Happy Lunar New Year everybody! All in all, Year of the Rooster has been...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
Mona Lisa #1: “The Wonder Lisa”
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
Odalisque with Red Culottes by Henri Matisse
Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci at the Musée du Louvre
Writing about boobs is one of our favorite jobs here at Sartle headquarters. While...
The best scene in Woody Allen’s movie "Midnight in Paris" takes place in the...
Once Punched a Skeleton
Artist Exposes genitals in Paris Museum StuntPerformance Artist Sits in From of...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
Snapchat is basically a social media machine for stalking people’s ...
Yep, the silent smile says it all. Please enjoy Mona Lisa Monday #2: The Pulp-a...
Fall fashion events around the world have strutted to a close in Paris and I’m left...
[Venice. Mrs. Peggy Guggenheim in her palace on the Grand Canal, 1950 by David...
Archist Series. Federico Babina. 2014 Small and want to live in a Damien Hirst...
Thrill Murray by Mike Coley. 2013. Never miss a chance to ride the coattails of...
This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
Pictures of beaches, fancy dinners, and people “exercising” aside, I’m...
Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...
Image: Jacob Lawrence. From The Migration Series, 1940-41. At MOMA. February 2016...
Well here we are–it’s the end of a franchise an era. The last Hunger Games...
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
The Symbolist Movement was born in 1886 as a literary movement by Jean...
San Francisco’s de Young Museum is a standout among other fine arts museums across...
“Lili y Gerda”, Gerda WegenerWith the Oscars just around the corner, and my very...
(source) He may have been a tiny guy, but no one could’ve survived as many...
It’s cool Schmidt, we don’t know what kids are up to these days either. If your kid...
Yes, you read that right. And why shouldn’t we celebrate the porcelain ...
Andy Warhol called her “the first girl artist with glamour.” A random admirer said...
Leonor Fini was an artist of her own self-fashioned Surrealism, known for her bold...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...
There’s only a month left to find a Valentine (if you don’t already...
As fans of looking closely and spending quality time with images, it’s no...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
The artistic collaboration between Kanye West and George Condo is akin to that...
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
The Monuments Men were charged with saving as many European cultural treasures as...
Mae West Lips Sofa by Salvador Dali, in cross-influence with fashion guru Elsa...
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...
Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
In 1930s Paris, a fashion revolution was born. Empress of couture Elsa...
Gerda Taro, the talented, courageous, and brilliant photographer was brushed...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
Ahh, Versailles, the disgustingly opulent palace of French royals, and boy is it...
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
This week, behold Hans Holbein the Younger’s Darmstadt Madonna.
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
This just in: Sartle makes new friends! Amelia, Victoria, and...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
I’m visiting my parents in San Francisco and, like all children of parents on the...
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
This masterpiece of weird incestuous erotica is supposed to be a birth announcement...
Since so many social media sites like to block the following images I encourage you...
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...
We’re obsessed with Game of Thrones this season, and are thanking the old...
Mel Brimfield, This is Performance Art, 2011, C-print Ah, performance artists...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
American People Series #19: U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Advent of...
Ooooh yeah, time for prezzies! Art history lovers are all about human...
Price channels his inner Salome, a la Hans Cranach the Younger in this publicity...
First of all, I clearly had no idea what I was talking about, because there is tons...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
Paolozzi as the god of art, fire, and other dangerous things? Photo by Ezinda...
Whether inadvertently or as part of a master plan for world takeover, Kim...
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
Ah New York City… Maybe you watched Friends and are enamored with brick...
The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
Almost as soon as the city shut down in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
Misere is widespread depression caused specifically by the painful juxtaposition of...
Alexander the Great and Campaspe in the Studio of Apelles by Giovanni Battista...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
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”...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
Drop trou and pick up your trowels people, because tomorrow is officially World...
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
If it weren’t for the Medici family, some of our favorite Renaissance artists...
The lighting crew of the Palace deserve a huge round of applause, the architecture...
We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
The day that is NOT Mexican Independence Day and IS the celebration of the Mexican...
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...
MuseumHack, an energetic bunch of nerds famous for giving the world’s...
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(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
Happy Bastille Day, everyone! It happens ten days after the 4th of July in France...
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...
As the holidays approach and merrymaking intensifies, the pressure to...
Marisol Escobar was a beautiful, talented, peculiar it-girl with a knack for...
Cubism was one of the first -isms to hit our collective senses in the twentieth-...
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...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
Check out this beaut! Here is the clearest photo we’ve ever had of Pluto, taken by...
July 17th will be the 60th Anniversary of Disneyland’s Opening Day! As a kid, I...
Nothing beats having a brother. Knowing you have a partner in crime is essential in...
Surrealism was the natural next step after the fluster-cuck that was Cubism. It...
Togas are a classic I-forgot-to-buy-a-costume costume, requiring just a white...
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
