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Sartle can get a little carried away reppin’ San Francisco. The Bay is, after all,...
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
Lovers on the lawn
Last year, Sartle sponsored a panel at Art Market San Francisco– See Art...
Crazy architecture and a rocking view
Best art deco building in San Francisco
Go away Apple!
Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
Expanded in 2016!
Where the 99% meets the 1%
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Her genital puns are not gentle
That sass though
First of all, I clearly had no idea what I was talking about, because there is tons...
More than just delicious desserts
His madre must have done something right
Buy now on Amazon
Doesn't like blood
Extreme Makeover: Church Edition
Buy now on The Met Store
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
More masterpieces than monks these days
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
Click here for discounted pizza
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“You get what you get,” Sarah Lucas hurriedly blurts out when passed the nearly...
Colonel underpants
Despite our recent efforts to do right by “The Donald” by generously drafting up a...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Mental health facilities in the 1800's bore an uncanny resemblance to dungeons
A sweet moment between a mother and child
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Pray there's not an earthquake
San Francisco Art Institute is offering two new online college classes...
Goya, Picasso, and Dalí walk into a museum . . .
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
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Gives new meaning to the term "food porn"
All hail the original drama queen
First off, that is a really unfortunate name
We’re so, so happy with how well-received San Francisco’s newest gallery has been....
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
The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
MuseumHack, an energetic bunch of nerds famous for giving the world’s...
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
Like a crayon box threw up
On a beautiful Tuesday afternoon, John Cappetta and I made our merry way over...
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Amidst GOP debates on hand to penis size ratio (in other worlds, who has the...
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SOURCEThe brand spankin’ new redesign has haters, sure, but we think it’s seven...
Hello, Darkness my old friend
Please join us (and everybody else) February 7, 2014 at noon in the Florence Gould...
In addition to briefing Sandi on our progress, we discussed weighty matters of art...
Judy Chicago is unmistakable. She walks into the room where she’s about to speak of...
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...
A series in which Lauren shows just how awful she is by combining crude text...
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...
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
Have you met San Francisco’s most famous citizen, Karl? Karl the FOG, that...
No more drinkie
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...
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YBAs are so fetch. Once upon a time in the 1980s, London was...
This one hung in Goya's dining room. Yum!
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
Pastels just might be the most underrated medium in all of art history. You rarely...
French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
San Francisco’s de Young Museum is a standout among other fine arts museums across...
You wouldn’t expect to uncover a spiritual path in the halls of a museum, but the...
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
American People Series #19: U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Advent of...
The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
But, if your entire instagram feed is of your duck-lipped face you might wanna slow...
Sartle Team members from near and far tore themselves from their laptops and...
The Sartle office was abuzz with frivolity as we celebrated the release...
The only occasions when horror films seem to garner an ounce of respect, is when...
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
Thanks to this Creators Project blog by Emerson Rosenthal, I learned I can finally...
A pre-Dukehood portrait
I’m not a businessman. I’m a business, man.
Rococ-oh myyyyy! It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...
Last week, our across-the-way pal Gallery 308 opened for its inaugural exhibition,...
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
We love getting new contributors and we’d like to introduce you to one of them:...
To me, Valentine’s Day is a day to shout ‘LOVE!’ from the rooftops....
Sorry to say that Christopher Lee died this week at 93. Modern Audiences and Comic...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Here are the best museums of the continental United States as picked with extreme...
We here at Sartle are super(naturally) excited for the much anticipated return of...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
If Kanye wants to be like Pablo, we can make that happen.Say what you want about...
Rejoice comic book lovers! September 25th is National Comic Book Day (...
We do! But carving is a whole other story… Last year, we summoned some dead...
Put on your bowler hat and take a trip to Magritte’s world....
Artist Biopics - Part One: March 7
Portrait of the tortured artist before he became a cliché
There are a lot of reasons to be upset recently. The changing political climate,...
Today’s the day that we celebrate some Italian guy who got into a boat and (...
In her seminal 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood paints a...
Technology is not neutral. That is the theme that reverberates throughout this...
Jessica Lange (left) channels Marlene Dietrich (right) as Elsa Mars. Like Dietrich...
Illuminati confirmed
It’s June again (the onset of wedding season), so I’m reviving Sarah's...
Andy Warhol called her “the first girl artist with glamour.” A random admirer said...
February 2016 marks the opening of Vigee Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
Earlier this summer, San Franciscans traded in their usual boho chic to revel in...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
The Crown Season 2 premieres December 8 on Netflix and it couldn’t be more...
Big Red by Alexander Calder at the San Jose Museum of Art
At the beginning and end of the Alice Neel “People Come First” exhibit, you’ll find...
Welsh model/reality TV star Imogen Thomas sparked a Twitter war over her...
Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...
Sartle highly recommends the San Francisco Art Institute’s new online art...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
Fall fashion events around the world have strutted to a close in Paris and I’m left...
Watch your step
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
…one film that got lost in the shuffle stateside was Belle, an unlikely...
Summer, the most idyllic of times for the beloved cross-country American ramble, is...
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
Ever been curious about what goes on in those fancy MFA programs, but don't have...
The Third of May 1808 by Francisco Goya
Claire Foy as Elizabeth II in The Crown.This month, while most Americans were glued...
We’re directly across from Greens Restaurant. Their gluten free chocolate...
…and here they are again, looking Bond-ish…
Angelica takes a stab at combining the mostly crude Texts From Last Night...
Many of my reviews are based off of my experiences as a shih tzu skeptic, a middle...
Earlier this fall, Tania and I had the amazing opportunity to travel to the East...
From the walls of the world’s great museums, to the dusky halls of the stately...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
The newest exhibition at the Asian Art Museum advertises itself as an engagement of...
Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
What is a garden? Artist Cathy Lu explores this surprisingly multi-faceted concept...
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...
Yes, you read that right. And why shouldn’t we celebrate the porcelain ...
The MoAD exhibit, titled “Thread for a Web Begun," is Zangewa’s first solo...
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...
Price channels his inner Salome, a la Hans Cranach the Younger in this publicity...
As a staple in the seasonal meme circuit, Freedom from Want by Norman Rockwell...
Ruth Asawa, San Francisco's favorite artist and most fervent advocate of...
We celebrate a lot of holidays centered around excess in this country; we...
Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
Jasper is judging you for not following us. Our second monthly get together...
Olympia by Édouard Manet at the Musée d'Orsay
Norman Rockwell is without question one of the artists most...
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...
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....
Last December we brought you Royal Romances in Art History in honor of Netflix’s...
Jules Tavernier’s representations of the Elem Pomo culture might be over one...
The lighting crew of the Palace deserve a huge round of applause, the architecture...
The party in full swing on the front lawn. Photo: Bahara Emami. This past month...
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...
This week the Golden State Warriors faced off against the Cleveland Cavaliers and...
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...
With that in mind, I went out and found a grand collection of “sort of adult”...
Portrait of Alexander Hamilton by John Trumbull at Washington University Law...
The color blue brings a lot of things to mind - the blue sky, blue-ribbon winners,...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
July 17th will be the 60th Anniversary of Disneyland’s Opening Day! As a kid, I...
Sometime between using the “1-Click” function on Amazon, buying groceries at...
As of 5:30 PM BST on Wednesday September 9, 2015 (that’s 9:30 am for us Yanks on...
Yesterday, we presented you with 6 influential African American artists in art...
You don’t have to be a kid to recognize these goofy yellow bundles of joy. Minions...
Christopher Columbus was not the man your grade school teachers told you about...
Spot the odd one out! There’s something unusual going on at Legion of Honor...
Surrealist-influenced poster for The Strange Woman, starring Hedy Lamarr.In 1930s...
Check out our earlier post of nip slips through art history.Miley Cyrus has become...
“As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And...
Yay! It’s time for my fellow Aries babies, born between March 20 to April 20 we’re...
Welcome to Jurassic Art. *cue music*
Oops, my hand slipped. See the previous dino-invaded artworks and hold onto your...
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...
And, with so much art (and art related fare) also available on those journeys, we...
(source) He may have been a tiny guy, but no one could’ve survived as many...
The third season of Broad City airs tonight and we can’t wait to see what our...
Just a few things about me: I love cuddles and all things sexy, which I make...
The immortal Zsa Zsa Gabor.We recently brought you zany quotes from Hollywood...
Who says Republicans don’t support the arts? In recent years, the conservative...
Just when we thought we couldn’t possibly see any more of Lady Gaga, she proves us...
The Sartle team had a madcap week running around Washington, DC and New York City...
Often wrong, but never in doubt
Living the HI life
This past Tuesday we were treated to the highly anticipated Democratic debate. In...
We didn’t think anything could top Beyoncé’s Formation video until we watched her...
The Oscars are nigh, and the agents of cinematic fortune have gifted the world’s...
Clueless has become as classically vintage as Cher’s 1972 columns with traces of...
Munch to my lazy chagrin, I needn’t have gotten so creative with my cocktail. A...
Welcome to Death Do Us Art, an online bridal expo for art lovers.I’ve found five...
I’m in my late 20s, which for about five years has meant that March and April bring...
Mae West Lips Sofa by Salvador Dali, in cross-influence with fashion guru Elsa...
This March, Turner Classic Movies is featuring films about art and artists, airing...
You'll want to come dressed to impressed because the Mad Hatter has made a...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
To show how far this game of telephone that we call “St. Patrick’s Day” has gone, I...
The most important takeaway, however, was the immediate realization that this is a...
In 1930s Paris, a fashion revolution was born. Empress of couture Elsa...
October has arrived! This is by far my favorite month of the year. October marks a...
Today in art history we toast what would have been the 112th birthday of Modernist...
Ccontrary to social media’s endorsements, “liking” a photograph isn’t the same as...
The one and only: Zsa Zsa GaborThis February would have marked the 100th birthday...
A gamer I am not, but a Pokémon trainer I am.The one and only gaming console I have...
Aptly titled “The Hangover” by Henri de Toulouse-LautrecAs I sit here typing,...
The holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
“The more we’re governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more...
Misere is widespread depression caused specifically by the painful juxtaposition of...
In January 2014, my husband and I traveled to Italy, stopping in Rome, Florence,...
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...
That eternal postman always rings twice, even for famous artists. Here are some...
Recently, millionaire real estate magnate Tim Gurner gave some helpful advice to...
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
…and five epic Oscar losses. But he’s finally done it! Here’s how:
It’s tough to be a princess in art history, pop culture, or even in real life. ...
Gerda Taro, the talented, courageous, and brilliant photographer was brushed...
Who said that you can’t be a mother and an artist at the same time? ...
It’s been a few years since the last Harry Potter movie and/or book were released...
This film serves as a visual sketch of a man’s life that leaves the audience...
On the eve of the 2017 Primetime Emmys, we at Sartle recall our longstanding...
Self-portrait in a straw hat by Vigee Le Brun, in the National Gallery, London.They...
This week, the world bade a tearful goodbye to comic giant and beloved childhood...
From Marge Simpson vs. Barbara Bush, to Hillary vs. the internet, feuds between...
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
SOURCESeriously credentialed French officials are proclaiming that a painting found...
Image: Jacob Lawrence. From The Migration Series, 1940-41. At MOMA. February 2016...
Feliz Cinco de Mayo! This is the day we remember the Mexican army’s 1862 victory...
Not to be confused with deliciously hipster lager Can you even...
Cinderella’s Castle at Walt Disney World If you’re ever judged for your...
Happy Halloween! Since this is the season of zombies, vampires and ghosts...
This year de Stijl turns 100! A glorious year for primary color...
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
It’s baa-aack.Scathing, clever and poignant as ever. BoJack Horseman Season 3 is...
sourceThe Man in the High Castle season 2, your next online TV addiction after The...
Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
What most people think they know about Marie Antoinette could fill...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
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...
This will be a strange world without Jon Stewart on The Daily Show. But we’ll...
We live in a cultural climate that defines things along High School Musical-esque...
Kim Jon Un reminded us this week that some of the hallowed traditions of evil...
Don’t worry if everyone says STEM is the only field hiring and that a liberal arts...
This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
YUUGE NEWS! Donald J. Trump is now a Sartle social media correspondent! Corrupt...
As the holidays approach and merrymaking intensifies, the pressure to...
Happy Bastille Day, everyone! It happens ten days after the 4th of July in France...
The day that is NOT Mexican Independence Day and IS the celebration of the Mexican...
Gertrude Stein was an American author, known for her Paris salon of writers and...
Animal Crossing is a peaceful escape into a world where tedious routine becomes fun...
We love stories about stolen artworks. Here is a stolen art story that hit the...
Scorsese’s ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ got us thinking: who did people turn to for...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
“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...
Ironically, the Degenerate Art Show was a wildly popular, and there were lines at...
At what point do evil dictators shift from making art to collecting it? Well,...
If you were catholic and rich in the 1600's you wanted to join this club and give them art
“An art book is a museum without walls.” —André Malraux Give the...
If you think the art world is full of sophisticated blue bloods standing around...
(image via Phaidon)Put on your itsy-bitsy teenie weenie yellow polka dot bikini and...
The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of...
Drop trou and pick up your trowels people, because tomorrow is officially World...
Yes, Carol, we will visit you this Sunday because it is the 2016 Oscars and we...
Picture books can be one of the best formats for imparting a love of art and...
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...
Fashion Alert! Harajuku girls invade Hawaii! The Honolulu Museum of...
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
Art history, but make it fashion. Is the Met better known...
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...
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
Leonor Fini was an artist of her own self-fashioned Surrealism, known for her bold...
This week, behold Pablo Picasso’s Le Rêve (The Dream).
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As if I didn't love this show enough (critics of later seasons be damned!),...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
Probably banged your girlfriend
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Christian Louboutin and photographer Peter Lippmann have such a love affair...
Bill Clinton was hanging out with his pal George W. Bush last week and made...
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Who you calling a degenerate? When we say “degenerate” in art history, we...
One thing art teachers never tell you in school is that sometimes the next best...
Is there a name more iconic than Guggenheim? Most of us are likely familiar...
It’sIn a world where I am Brad Pitt and my friends are George Clooney at the...
Do you really think artists like Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning ...
Take your facial hair from bizarre to brilliant with these mustaches! Pieter...
Could it be?? The couch gag…..a BRAND NEW museum-themed couch gag? A gag that...
What makes a good movie great? A trip to the museum, that’s what. To...
We already love Vincent Van Gogh, but Loving Vincent made us love him even more...
Happy Lunar New Year everybody! All in all, Year of the Rooster has been...
Lock-picking mastermind with impeccable literary taste. STORY TIME...
Here is Marina Abramović’s Portrait with Scorpion (2005) We’re celebrating our...
It haunts your dreams, it gives you the heebie jeebies, it makes you want to shriek...
Bow down, witches, ‘cus the Sartle team has carved the best jack-o-...
In 2011, the United Nations declared that July 30 would forever be known as the...
Source In Peter H. Reynolds’s children’s book The Dot, a young child...
Every culture has a golden age of artmaking. It’s a time when the stars align:...
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66 years ago today, the world was introduced to the psychedelic masterpiece...
Whaam! Boom! Pow! Turns out all the superheroes we love and the...
