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Best art deco building in San Francisco
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
Sartle can get a little carried away reppin’ San Francisco. The Bay is, after all,...
Lovers on the lawn
Last year, Sartle sponsored a panel at Art Market San Francisco– See Art...
Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
Crazy architecture and a rocking view
Go away Apple!
Expanded in 2016!
Almost as soon as the city shut down in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
Where the 99% meets the 1%
First of all, I clearly had no idea what I was talking about, because there is tons...
The third season of Broad City airs tonight and we can’t wait to see what our...
That sass though
More than just delicious desserts
His madre must have done something right
Doesn't like blood
Germans "borrowed" it, Russians "saved" it
One of the most morbid painters ever, and one of the best
Extreme Makeover: Church Edition
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
Best collection of dead Medicis anywhere
Figure out the way to San Jose...ASAP!
Fits 423 hospital beds
More masterpieces than monks these days
Check your home security system people
Concrete Jungle
The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
Buy now on Amazon
Ah New York City… Maybe you watched Friends and are enamored with brick...
Not for during rush hour
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
SOURCEThe brand spankin’ new redesign has haters, sure, but we think it’s seven...
His unit comes off on when dignitaries from the Catholic Church visit
City living
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Sartle was invited to check out the de Young’s newest exhibition, “The Summer of...
French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
My name is Silke, the newest contributor here at Sartle. It took me way too long to...
It's not a vagina!
Concrete jungle where dreams are made of
Mad Men, S.a.a.d City
The lovely people at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco recently invited...
San Francisco Art Institute is offering two new online college classes...
Vive La Revolution!
Mental health facilities in the 1800's bore an uncanny resemblance to dungeons
A sweet moment between a mother and child
Urban anxiety aplenty
At the bottom of the sea
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
Find out which artist she compares to Miley Cyrus, which artwork might make you...
Please join us (and everybody else) February 7, 2014 at noon in the Florence Gould...
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
Pray there's not an earthquake
We’re so, so happy with how well-received San Francisco’s newest gallery has been....
Judy Chicago is unmistakable. She walks into the room where she’s about to speak of...
Goya, Picasso, and Dalí walk into a museum . . .
Hung Liu with her work Resident Alien in 1988 (credit) The...
Add medals when necessary
Infamous pubes
Creepy kids play creepy game and sing creepy song
A tale of two Majas
Leading, ailing, never failing
La Indigenista
Realistic, but not bloody
A “botched job” that gave us giant robots
MuseumHack, an energetic bunch of nerds famous for giving the world’s...
Not allowed to be political
Wholesome
Last Friday night’s grand opening at Embark Gallery was a true show-stopper for the...
Rococ-oh myyyyy! It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...
Pastels just might be the most underrated medium in all of art history. You rarely...
Here are the best museums of the continental United States as picked with extreme...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
Like a crayon box threw up
In addition to briefing Sandi on our progress, we discussed weighty matters of art...
Napoleon's Spanish henchmen stopping a revolt did not go down well with Goya
Jesuit missionary work gone horribly wrong
The corner baker in the foreground, incest in the background
Marry museum director, place portrait in museum = success
Not my king
Should've paid the ransom!
Someone call Matthew Hopkins
Superstition ain't the way
Don’t worry, we will still be located at the fantastic Fort Mason Center...
Halloween’s got something for everyone. There’s the best parties this side of New...
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
The Sartle team had a madcap week running around Washington, DC and New York City...
Have you met San Francisco’s most famous citizen, Karl? Karl the FOG, that...
You wouldn’t expect to uncover a spiritual path in the halls of a museum, but the...
San Francisco’s de Young Museum is a standout among other fine arts museums across...
American People Series #19: U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Advent of...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
No more drinkie
Sartle Team members from near and far tore themselves from their laptops and...
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
"Hyperreal"
An innocent red dot
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
This one hung in Goya's dining room. Yum!
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
But, if your entire instagram feed is of your duck-lipped face you might wanna slow...
The Sartle office was abuzz with frivolity as we celebrated the release...
Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
Thanks to this Creators Project blog by Emerson Rosenthal, I learned I can finally...
A pre-Dukehood portrait
Last week, our across-the-way pal Gallery 308 opened for its inaugural exhibition,...
At the beginning and end of the Alice Neel “People Come First” exhibit, you’ll find...
I’m not a businessman. I’m a business, man.
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
We do! But carving is a whole other story… Last year, we summoned some dead...
Amidst GOP debates on hand to penis size ratio (in other worlds, who has the...
There are a lot of reasons to be upset recently. The changing political climate,...
To me, Valentine’s Day is a day to shout ‘LOVE!’ from the rooftops....
Put on your bowler hat and take a trip to Magritte’s world....
A little help from our friends
Technology is not neutral. That is the theme that reverberates throughout this...
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
Earlier this fall, Tania and I had the amazing opportunity to travel to the East...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
I’m visiting my parents in San Francisco and, like all children of parents on the...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
Everyone loves a good heist movie, especially when the leading man is a hunk. But...
So what’s got museums’ panties in a bunch now? In a nutshell: President Trump’s...
Portrait of the tortured artist before he became a cliché
Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
We’re pleased to share with you four amazing new writers, chiming in from across...
Illuminati confirmed
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
Sometime between using the “1-Click” function on Amazon, buying groceries at...
If COVID-19 quarantine has left you missing the museums that closed, disappointed...
Misere is widespread depression caused specifically by the painful juxtaposition of...
On a beautiful Tuesday afternoon, John Cappetta and I made our merry way over...
Big Red by Alexander Calder at the San Jose Museum of Art
The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
Ever been curious about what goes on in those fancy MFA programs, but don't have...
Sartle highly recommends the San Francisco Art Institute’s new online art...
SOURCESeriously credentialed French officials are proclaiming that a painting found...
We love getting new contributors and we’d like to introduce you to one of them:...
Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health issues in the world, so...
Yes, you read that right. And why shouldn’t we celebrate the porcelain ...
You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...
Seated Woman by Henri MatisseIn happy art news, a painting stolen from renowned art...
The newest exhibition at the Asian Art Museum advertises itself as an engagement of...
Legend has it that Goya’s first draft to this dining room centerpiece included...
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
Happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate! By the way, did you know your turkey is...
Obama has his reasons for making fun of art history and it’s all this posts fault....
Ruth Asawa, San Francisco's favorite artist and most fervent advocate of...
Sorry to say that Christopher Lee died this week at 93. Modern Audiences and Comic...
What is a garden? Artist Cathy Lu explores this surprisingly multi-faceted concept...
One must always wear proper headgear when going into sports battle.The Superbowl is...
Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
The Third of May 1808 by Francisco Goya
We’re directly across from Greens Restaurant. Their gluten free chocolate...
Olympia by Édouard Manet at the Musée d'Orsay
Angelica takes a stab at combining the mostly crude Texts From Last Night...
This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
Jules Tavernier’s representations of the Elem Pomo culture might be over one...
The Legion of Honor's new exhibit Gods in Color: Polychromy in the...
The color blue brings a lot of things to mind - the blue sky, blue-ribbon winners,...
Yesterday, we presented you with 6 influential African American artists in art...
Many of my reviews are based off of my experiences as a shih tzu skeptic, a middle...
Artist Biopics - Part One: March 7
The Monuments Men were charged with saving as many European cultural treasures as...
So we did what anyone would do and ushered them into the conference room and then...
Christopher Columbus was not the man your grade school teachers told you about...
I want YOU...to check out this new exhibit at the de Young. It’s called...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
We didn’t think anything could top Beyoncé’s Formation video until we watched her...
Hey, I’m Maya! I started interning at Sartle a little over a month ago along with...
Spot the odd one out! There’s something unusual going on at Legion of Honor...
The Oscars are nigh, and the agents of cinematic fortune have gifted the world’s...
Summer, the most idyllic of times for the beloved cross-country American ramble, is...
Monogram by Robert Rauschenberg at the Museum of Modern Art Stockholm Here’s to our...
The most important takeaway, however, was the immediate realization that this is a...
We celebrate a lot of holidays centered around excess in this country; we...
Jasper is judging you for not following us. Our second monthly get together...
Nude lips have been killing it extra hard for at least the past year, and even...
Sometimes Halloween sneaks up on you before you’ve even had time to savor the...
The lighting crew of the Palace deserve a huge round of applause, the architecture...
You'll want to come dressed to impressed because the Mad Hatter has made a...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
With that in mind, I went out and found a grand collection of “sort of adult”...
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
Tania and I were desperate for a “day” off and decided a tour of the mid-west was...
The only occasions when horror films seem to garner an ounce of respect, is when...
Today’s the day that we celebrate some Italian guy who got into a boat and (...
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
We here at Sartle are super(naturally) excited for the much anticipated return of...
You don’t have to be a kid to recognize these goofy yellow bundles of joy. Minions...
In January 2014, my husband and I traveled to Italy, stopping in Rome, Florence,...
If you’re looking for a strange getaway to a tiny desert island of...
Yay! It’s time for my fellow Aries babies, born between March 20 to April 20 we’re...
Image: Jacob Lawrence. From The Migration Series, 1940-41. At MOMA. February 2016...
Just a few things about me: I love cuddles and all things sexy, which I make...
“You get what you get,” Sarah Lucas hurriedly blurts out when passed the nearly...
Earlier this summer, San Franciscans traded in their usual boho chic to revel in...
Often wrong, but never in doubt
Feliz Cinco de Mayo! This is the day we remember the Mexican army’s 1862 victory...
As if I didn't love this show enough (critics of later seasons be damned!),...
This year de Stijl turns 100! A glorious year for primary color...
One and Three Chairs by Joseph Kosuth at the Museum of Modern Art
Well folks, it's that time of year again. The sun is high in the sky and...
Jeff Koons’ Pink Panther at the MOMA is clearly a maleBut at Sochi he is now...
No more tacky inspirational Martin Luther King Jr. quotes about how he had a...
That eternal postman always rings twice, even for famous artists. Here are some...
Last year we provided you with some art-themed Valentines to give to your Valentine...
“That painting looks so realistic” is not something most viewers would say of an...
Whether you’re new to art or an old hand, Edinburgh is an incredible place for an...
Leonor Fini was an artist of her own self-fashioned Surrealism, known for her bold...
Getting to the Chichu Museum in Naoshima like... The Chichu...
The day that is NOT Mexican Independence Day and IS the celebration of the Mexican...
Another March has come and gone. If you’ve been saving up Sartle posts all month...
Welsh model/reality TV star Imogen Thomas sparked a Twitter war over her...
The term “The Orient” was coined in the 19th century, defined by the region...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
One very not cool thing about the Met: it’s on half of the planet’s short-list...
At what point do evil dictators shift from making art to collecting it? Well,...
The Google Arts & Culture app has recently gone viral dominating the most...
As the holidays approach and merrymaking intensifies, the pressure to...
Cubism was one of the first -isms to hit our collective senses in the twentieth-...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
Walk along the Water of Leith in Dunedin (also known as Edinburgh), following the...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
Whether inadvertently or as part of a master plan for world takeover, Kim...
Tarantism (n.): a psychological condition characterized by an...
