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His madre must have done something right
Doesn't like blood
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...
One of the most morbid painters ever, and one of the best
Lovers on the lawn
Last year, Sartle sponsored a panel at Art Market San Francisco– See Art...
Her nickname was "la bella Simonetta"
Falling for the same gal
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!
Mental health facilities in the 1800's bore an uncanny resemblance to dungeons
A sweet moment between a mother and child
Where the 99% meets the 1%
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
Jeff Koons’ Pink Panther at the MOMA is clearly a maleBut at Sochi he is now...
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
Kim Jon Un reminded us this week that some of the hallowed traditions of evil...
YUUGE NEWS! Donald J. Trump is now a Sartle social media correspondent! Corrupt...
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...
Goering was eager to be thought of as a man of culture, and he was also Hitler’s...
That sass though
No more drinkie
A year ago, Alexa.com did not rank Sartle at all because we did not have enough...
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,...
This one hung in Goya's dining room. Yum!
More than just delicious desserts
Artist Exposes genitals in Paris Museum StuntPerformance Artist Sits in From of...
The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of...
A pre-Dukehood portrait
The Monuments Men were charged with saving as many European cultural treasures as...
Perspective, in a nutshell, is how much space/distance is shown in a 2D...
Often wrong, but never in doubt
One way to look at all art is through the lens of design. All art uses...
Portrait of the tortured artist before he became a cliché
Illuminati confirmed
The new and improved San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopened on May...
Angelica takes a stab at combining the mostly crude Texts From Last Night...
We’re so, so happy with how well-received San Francisco’s newest gallery has been....
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...
Don’t worry, we will still be located at the fantastic Fort Mason Center...
SOURCEThe brand spankin’ new redesign has haters, sure, but we think it’s seven...
Almost as soon as the city shut down in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic,...
Last Friday night’s grand opening at Embark Gallery was a true show-stopper for the...
Legend has it that Goya’s first draft to this dining room centerpiece included...
Sartle was invited to check out the de Young’s newest exhibition, “The Summer of...
San Francisco Art Institute is offering two new online college classes...
The Third of May 1808 by Francisco Goya
My name is Silke, the newest contributor here at Sartle. It took me way too long to...
MuseumHack, an energetic bunch of nerds famous for giving the world’s...
How do you like your museums? I’ll take mine with some fun, sass, and a side of...
The lovely people at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco recently invited...
Happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate! By the way, did you know your turkey is...
One of the best things about the art world is simply how surprising it...
Obama has his reasons for making fun of art history and it’s all this posts fault....
Nude lips have been killing it extra hard for at least the past year, and even...
Find out which artist she compares to Miley Cyrus, which artwork might make you...
Sorry to say that Christopher Lee died this week at 93. Modern Audiences and Comic...
Reading Le Figaro by Mary Cassatt, 1883. Private CollectionSometimes you just need...
Judy Chicago is unmistakable. She walks into the room where she’s about to speak of...
The Sartle office was abuzz with frivolity as we celebrated the release...
(L-R: Tania Houtzager, Ethan Angelica, Erica Gangsei, and Salvador Acevedo)Sartle...
French painter Francois Boucher famously proclaimed that “Nature is too green and...
One must always wear proper headgear when going into sports battle.The Superbowl is...
With that in mind, I went out and found a grand collection of “sort of adult”...
Halloween’s got something for everyone. There’s the best parties this side of New...
With Fathers Day around the corner, it’s natural to reminisce about our Pops. Sure...
Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...
We here at Sartle are super(naturally) excited for the much anticipated return of...
Lauren brings shame and embarrassment to her art history professors by combining...
Have you met San Francisco’s most famous citizen, Karl? Karl the FOG, that...
Hung Liu with her work Resident Alien in 1988 (credit) The...
Last week, our across-the-way pal Gallery 308 opened for its inaugural exhibition,...
Yay! It’s time for my fellow Aries babies, born between March 20 to April 20 we’re...
Monogram by Robert Rauschenberg at the Museum of Modern Art Stockholm Here’s to our...
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending an action-packed (!)...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
Artist Biopics - Part One: March 7
You can be part of it right now with the opening of the groundbreaking...
Olympia by Édouard Manet at the Musée d'Orsay
Monet: The Early Years gives visitors the chance to track the artist’s growth...
We didn’t think anything could top Beyoncé’s Formation video until we watched her...
Pastels just might be the most underrated medium in all of art history. You rarely...
The Oscars are nigh, and the agents of cinematic fortune have gifted the world’s...
Here are the best museums of the continental United States as picked with extreme...
Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health issues in the world, so...
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...
We do! But carving is a whole other story… Last year, we summoned some dead...
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...
Another March has come and gone. If you’ve been saving up Sartle posts all month...
But, if your entire instagram feed is of your duck-lipped face you might wanna slow...
Amidst GOP debates on hand to penis size ratio (in other worlds, who has the...
Sartle Team members from near and far tore themselves from their laptops and...
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...
Rococ-oh myyyyy! It looks like a little bit of seduction has arrived...
Two years ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco put on a show...
There are a lot of reasons to be upset recently. The changing political climate,...
The only occasions when horror films seem to garner an ounce of respect, is when...
Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
Put on your bowler hat and take a trip to Magritte’s world....
To me, Valentine’s Day is a day to shout ‘LOVE!’ from the rooftops....
Technology is not neutral. That is the theme that reverberates throughout this...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdown in San Francisco,...
Sometimes Halloween sneaks up on you before you’ve even had time to savor the...
We’re directly across from Greens Restaurant. Their gluten free chocolate...
Many of my reviews are based off of my experiences as a shih tzu skeptic, a middle...
Hey, I’m Maya! I started interning at Sartle a little over a month ago along with...
We love getting new contributors and we’d like to introduce you to one of them:...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
Untitled, 1986 Walking through the Rosie Lee Tompkins exhibit that just...
Welsh model/reality TV star Imogen Thomas sparked a Twitter war over her...
Going to see the Obama Portraits has been described as a secular pilgrimage.
At the beginning and end of the Alice Neel “People Come First” exhibit, you’ll find...
We celebrate a lot of holidays centered around excess in this country; we...
We’re pleased to share with you four amazing new writers, chiming in from across...
Yes, you read that right. And why shouldn’t we celebrate the porcelain ...
Spot the odd one out! There’s something unusual going on at Legion of Honor...
Sartle highly recommends the San Francisco Art Institute’s new online art...
You have had your fair share of bad relationships and you are just so glad to...
The lighting crew of the Palace deserve a huge round of applause, the architecture...
To Diego Rivera, “America” meant: “the territory included between the two ice...
So we did what anyone would do and ushered them into the conference room and then...
Ah New York City… Maybe you watched Friends and are enamored with brick...
“That painting looks so realistic” is not something most viewers would say of an...
I’m visiting my parents in San Francisco and, like all children of parents on the...
The Legion of Honor's new exhibit Gods in Color: Polychromy in the...
By the way, for every picture posted on various social media platforms and tagged...
Misere is widespread depression caused specifically by the painful juxtaposition of...
Just a few things about me: I love cuddles and all things sexy, which I make...
You don’t have to be a kid to recognize these goofy yellow bundles of joy. Minions...
“You get what you get,” Sarah Lucas hurriedly blurts out when passed the nearly...
Ever been curious about what goes on in those fancy MFA programs, but don't have...
The most important takeaway, however, was the immediate realization that this is a...