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Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
Last year, Sartle sponsored a panel at Art Market San Francisco– See Art...
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Lovers on the lawn
Crazy architecture and a rocking view
Best art deco building in San Francisco
Go away Apple!
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Expanded in 2016!
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That sass though
More than just delicious desserts
His madre must have done something right
Doesn't like blood
Extreme Makeover: Church Edition
One of the most morbid painters ever, and one of the best
Best collection of dead Medicis anywhere
Figure out the way to San Jose...ASAP!
Fits 423 hospital beds
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Pray there's not an earthquake
Goya, Picasso, and Dalí walk into a museum . . .
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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
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Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
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In addition to briefing Sandi on our progress, we discussed weighty matters of art...
Like a crayon box threw up
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Sartle was invited to check out the de Young’s newest exhibition, “The Summer of...
Hung Liu with her work Resident Alien in 1988 (credit) The...
Last Friday night’s grand opening at Embark Gallery was a true show-stopper for the...
American People Series #19: U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Advent of...
Rococ-oh myyyyy! It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...
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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
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
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Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
My name is Silke, the newest contributor here at Sartle. It took me way too long to...
The lovely people at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco recently invited...
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
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Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
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Put on your bowler hat and take a trip to Magritte’s world....
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As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
If Baroque art and a can of whipped cream had a baby, it would be the Rococo....
You wouldn’t expect to uncover a spiritual path in the halls of a museum, but the...
But, if your entire instagram feed is of your duck-lipped face you might wanna slow...
This one hung in Goya's dining room. Yum!
The Sartle office was abuzz with frivolity as we celebrated the release...
Technology is not neutral. That is the theme that reverberates throughout this...
Thanks to this Creators Project blog by Emerson Rosenthal, I learned I can finally...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
A pre-Dukehood portrait
I’m not a businessman. I’m a business, man.
At the beginning and end of the Alice Neel “People Come First” exhibit, you’ll find...
To me, Valentine’s Day is a day to shout ‘LOVE!’ from the rooftops....
The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
Here are the best museums of the continental United States as picked with extreme...
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
We do! But carving is a whole other story… Last year, we summoned some dead...
Jasper is judging you for not following us. Our second monthly get together...
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 Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
Portrait of the tortured artist before he became a cliché
What is a garden? Artist Cathy Lu explores this surprisingly multi-faceted concept...
Illuminati confirmed
The newest exhibition at the Asian Art Museum advertises itself as an engagement of...
The lighting crew of the Palace deserve a huge round of applause, the architecture...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
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...
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Big Red by Alexander Calder at the San Jose Museum of Art
Sartle highly recommends the San Francisco Art Institute’s new online art...
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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...
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
On a beautiful Tuesday afternoon, John Cappetta and I made our merry way over...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
Ever been curious about what goes on in those fancy MFA programs, but don't have...
The Third of May 1808 by Francisco Goya
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Angelica takes a stab at combining the mostly crude Texts From Last Night...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
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Earlier this fall, Tania and I had the amazing opportunity to travel to the East...
We love getting new contributors and we’d like to introduce you to one of them:...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
Legend has it that Goya’s first draft to this dining room centerpiece included...
Everyone loves a good heist movie, especially when the leading man is a hunk. But...
Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
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Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
Hey, I’m Maya! I started interning at Sartle a little over a month ago along with...
You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...
Drop trou and pick up your trowels people, because tomorrow is officially World...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
We celebrate a lot of holidays centered around excess in this country; we...
Ruth Asawa, San Francisco's favorite artist and most fervent advocate of...
Olympia by Édouard Manet at the Musée d'Orsay
I’m visiting my parents in San Francisco and, like all children of parents on the...
Happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate! By the way, did you know your turkey is...
Sorry to say that Christopher Lee died this week at 93. Modern Audiences and Comic...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
Nude lips have been killing it extra hard for at least the past year, and even...
Obama has his reasons for making fun of art history and it’s all this posts fault....
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
One must always wear proper headgear when going into sports battle.The Superbowl is...
Ah New York City… Maybe you watched Friends and are enamored with brick...
The Legion of Honor's new exhibit Gods in Color: Polychromy in the...
I want YOU...to check out this new exhibit at the de Young. It’s called...
So we did what anyone would do and ushered them into the conference room and then...
Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health issues in the world, so...
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The color blue brings a lot of things to mind - the blue sky, blue-ribbon winners,...
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This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
Sometime between using the “1-Click” function on Amazon, buying groceries at...
Yesterday, we presented you with 6 influential African American artists in art...
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...
Artist Biopics - Part One: March 7
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Monogram by Robert Rauschenberg at the Museum of Modern Art Stockholm Here’s to our...
We’re pleased to share with you four amazing new writers, chiming in from across...
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...
The Sartle team had a madcap week running around Washington, DC and New York City...
Once Punched a Skeleton
Often wrong, but never in doubt
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Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
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The most important takeaway, however, was the immediate realization that this is a...
Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
Misere is widespread depression caused specifically by the painful juxtaposition of...
Another March has come and gone. If you’ve been saving up Sartle posts all month...
Sometimes Halloween sneaks up on you before you’ve even had time to savor the...
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...
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The only occasions when horror films seem to garner an ounce of respect, is when...
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
SOURCESeriously credentialed French officials are proclaiming that a painting found...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
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Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
PUPPPPPPPPYYYY!!!! Sorry, no puppies in boxes this year, but perhaps a...
Jeff Koons’ Pink Panther at the MOMA is clearly a maleBut at Sochi he is now...
Well folks, it's that time of year again. The sun is high in the sky and...
A year ago, Alexa.com did not rank Sartle at all because we did not have enough...
Earlier this summer, San Franciscans traded in their usual boho chic to revel in...
Kim Jon Un reminded us this week that some of the hallowed traditions of evil...
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
YUUGE NEWS! Donald J. Trump is now a Sartle social media correspondent! Corrupt...
As the holidays approach and merrymaking intensifies, the pressure to...
Pumpkins are everywhere this season. On our doorsteps, in our coffee, in every...
Scorsese’s ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ got us thinking: who did people turn to for...
We love stories about stolen artworks. Here is a stolen art story that hit the...
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
“That painting looks so realistic” is not something most viewers would say of an...
Goering was eager to be thought of as a man of culture, and he was also Hitler’s...
Artist Exposes genitals in Paris Museum StuntPerformance Artist Sits in From of...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
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Ironically, the Degenerate Art Show was a wildly popular, and there were lines at...
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
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Welsh model/reality TV star Imogen Thomas sparked a Twitter war over her...
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
If you were catholic and rich in the 1600's you wanted to join this club and give them art
The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of...
Alexander the Great and Campaspe in the Studio of Apelles by Giovanni Battista...
Tania and I were desperate for a “day” off and decided a tour of the mid-west was...
The Monuments Men were charged with saving as many European cultural treasures as...
Remember when iconic shoe lover Carrie Bradshaw leaned in to look at a pair of...
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...
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I’m not saying Hamilton the Musical saved Alexander Hamilton’s face from getting...
Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...
Check out this beaut! Here is the clearest photo we’ve ever had of Pluto, taken by...
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...
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
In June and July we brought you the first two installments of our summer series, “...
Dadaism was created with the intention of turning both the art world and the...
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
This week we have The Temptation of Saint Anthony by Salvador Dali, housed in the...
Aptly titled “The Hangover” by Henri de Toulouse-LautrecAs I sit here typing,...
A gamer I am not, but a Pokémon trainer I am.The one and only gaming console I have...
No need for art galleries when your closet is your own personal museum and the...
