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The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
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Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Starting February 27th and running until July 21, 2019, the Berkeley Art...
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We’re so, so happy with how well-received San Francisco’s newest gallery has been....
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Sartle was invited to check out the de Young’s newest exhibition, “The Summer of...
Everything you thought you knew is wrong! OK, maybe not everything … Gravity...
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"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
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As the neurologist Oliver Sacks noted, gardens are places of healing. The Greek...
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This exhibit is going to blow you away. You may be so moved by its...
The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...
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Pastels just might be the most underrated medium in all of art history. You rarely...
The most important takeaway, however, was the immediate realization that this is a...
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Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
Rococ-oh myyyyy! It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...
The newest exhibition at the Asian Art Museum advertises itself as an engagement of...
With a new year comes a new season of BoJack Horseman -- which also means...
First of all, I clearly had no idea what I was talking about, because there is tons...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
Technology is not neutral. That is the theme that reverberates throughout this...
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Put on your bowler hat and take a trip to Magritte’s world....
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
Fashion Alert! Harajuku girls invade Hawaii! The Honolulu Museum of...
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
The Sartle team is beyond thrilled to be flying up to Portland today to visit the...
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I want YOU...to check out this new exhibit at the de Young. It’s called...
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Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
Judy Chicago is unmistakable. She walks into the room where she’s about to speak of...
Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
You wouldn’t expect to uncover a spiritual path in the halls of a museum, but the...
Who you calling a degenerate? When we say “degenerate” in art history, we...
Hung Liu with her work Resident Alien in 1988 (credit) The...
Cinderella’s Castle at Walt Disney World If you’re ever judged for your...
Remember back to the 2016 election when womxn’s hearts across the nation felt...
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
So what’s got museums’ panties in a bunch now? In a nutshell: President Trump’s...
Since it opened in 1871, the San Francisco Art Institute has become an...
We're outing Hayao Miyazaki as an art nerd. Ok, it’s maybe not the biggest...
Last week, our across-the-way pal Gallery 308 opened for its inaugural exhibition,...
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
Ah New York City… Maybe you watched Friends and are enamored with brick...
Getting to the Chichu Museum in Naoshima like... The Chichu...
Last week, Sartle was invited to the Director’s Breakfast at the de Young...
In January 2014, my husband and I traveled to Italy, stopping in Rome, Florence,...
The Sartle team had a madcap week running around Washington, DC and New York City...
MuseumHack, an energetic bunch of nerds famous for giving the world’s...
Spot the odd one out! There’s something unusual going on at Legion of Honor...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
RSAP has a great message. Sure, they get a little hyperbolic about just how much...
Leonor Fini was an artist of her own self-fashioned Surrealism, known for her bold...
Private Parts is a series exposing the raw, gritty, and true stories behind...
It's St. Patrick's Day! And while we all may be Irish today, these...
With recent exhibits on topics ranging from the Manga of Japanese artist Takaya...
Last Friday night’s grand opening at Embark Gallery was a true show-stopper for the...
Image: Jacob Lawrence. From The Migration Series, 1940-41. At MOMA. February 2016...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
Whether you’re new to art or an old hand, Edinburgh is an incredible place for an...
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Jules Tavernier’s representations of the Elem Pomo culture might be over one...
