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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!
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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That sass though
More than just delicious desserts
His madre must have done something right
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
Doesn't like blood
Extreme Makeover: Church Edition
One of the most morbid painters ever, and one of the best
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Best collection of dead Medicis anywhere
Figure out the way to San Jose...ASAP!
Fits 423 hospital beds
More masterpieces than monks these days
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Not for during rush hour
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The power of Edo period art can best be summed up with this quote:...
Please join us (and everybody else) February 7, 2014 at noon in the Florence Gould...
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One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
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Sartle Team members from near and far tore themselves from their laptops and...
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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You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
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The San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) is a magically inspiring art haven...
Pray there's not an earthquake
Last week, our across-the-way pal Gallery 308 opened for its inaugural exhibition,...
Goya, Picasso, and Dalí walk into a museum . . .
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
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...
SOURCEThe brand spankin’ new redesign has haters, sure, but we think it’s seven...
Like a crayon box threw up
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Don’t worry, we will still be located at the fantastic Fort Mason Center...
Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
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...
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
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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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...
"Other artists showed what viewers wanted to see. Suzanne showed them what was...
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...
No more drinkie
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
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...
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Gustav Klimt and his Viennese beauties come to us via the Legion...
Halloween’s got something for everyone. There’s the best parties this side of New...
Put on your bowler hat and take a trip to Magritte’s world....
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
This one hung in Goya's dining room. Yum!
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...
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...
A pre-Dukehood portrait
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I’m not a businessman. I’m a business, man.
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To me, Valentine’s Day is a day to shout ‘LOVE!’ from the rooftops....
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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.
Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
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,...
Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
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 holidays are here! Whether you celebrate this time in church, temple, around a...
The lighting crew of the Palace deserve a huge round of applause, the architecture...
Last Saturday, while making my way through a frenzy of de Young Museum...
Big Red by Alexander Calder at the San Jose Museum of Art
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Sartle highly recommends the San Francisco Art Institute’s new online art...
In Ezra Koenig’s new Netflix anime series, Neo Yokio, a demon enters the...
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