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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!
Almost as soon as the city shut down in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
Expanded in 2016!
First of all, I clearly had no idea what I was talking about, because there is tons...
Where the 99% meets the 1%
The third season of Broad City airs tonight and we can’t wait to see what our...
That sass though
His madre must have done something right
More than just delicious desserts
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...
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
Best collection of dead Medicis anywhere
Figure out the way to San Jose...ASAP!
Fits 423 hospital beds
More masterpieces than monks these days
Ah New York City… Maybe you watched Friends and are enamored with brick...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
His unit comes off on when dignitaries from the Catholic Church visit
City living
SOURCEThe brand spankin’ new redesign has haters, sure, but we think it’s seven...
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...
Not for during rush hour
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!
Urban anxiety aplenty
At the bottom of the sea
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
Mental health facilities in the 1800's bore an uncanny resemblance to dungeons
A sweet moment between a mother and child
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...
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...
Hung Liu with her work Resident Alien in 1988 (credit) The...
Not allowed to be political
Wholesome
MuseumHack, an energetic bunch of nerds famous for giving the world’s...
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...
Pray there's not an earthquake
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...
Goya, Picasso, and Dalí walk into a museum . . .
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
In addition to briefing Sandi on our progress, we discussed weighty matters of art...
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...
Like a crayon box threw up
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...
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
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...
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...
An innocent red dot
No more drinkie
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
"Hyperreal"
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
(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...
This one hung in Goya's dining room. Yum!
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...
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...
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,...
A pre-Dukehood portrait
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
I’m not a businessman. I’m a business, man.
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...
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...
Portrait of the tortured artist before he became a cliché
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...
Illuminati confirmed
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...
