It is Ruth Bernhard’s year. San Francisco’s Ansel Adams Center mounted an exhibition of her work in April, J.J. Brookings…
Art & Architecture
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art July 6 – October 2, 2001 Stranger Passing is a collection of some 65…
Celebrating Moore: Works from the Collection of the Henry Moore Foundation (1998), David Mitchinson, editor Art must be seen in…
Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza was one of the heirs to the great Thyssen steel fortune and is a canny capitalist…
Driving in from the airport, topping a rise, central Bilbao comes into view, nestled in a valley on the River…
Picasso’s War: The Destruction of Guernica and the Masterpiece That Changed the World (2002), Russell Martin If art heals the…
an outstanding catalogue of the painting collection, published by the museum Mythology & History in the Great Paintings of the…
The Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, a lively component of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, has scored a…
The initial impact of Hiroshi Sugimoto’s exhibition of a dozen black-and-white "portraits" at San Francisco’s Fraenkel Gallery derives from sheer…
Pier Francesco Fiorentino, Virgin Mary and Child with John the Baptist, Angels and The Holy Father 15the century photo credit:…
The Basilica of St. Francis has stood for over 750 years in Assisi, a beacon attracting pilgrims, both secular and…
Six artists respond to snow. Three use snow as a constant reference in their paintings: Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, and…
Gallery openings are, more often than not, events where social and imbibational interests tend to eclipse the ostensible purpose of…
There was an eerie hush as crowds of people filed quietly past Karen Sullivan’s opening of drawings and paintings at…