San Francisco’s Legion of Honor Museum is lucky to house one of the most significant museum collections of Japanese prints…
Emily S. Mendel
Emily S. Mendel, a writer, and photographer, has been a regular contributor to culturevulture.net since 2006, where she concentrates her reviews on San Francisco theater and art. As a native New Yorker (although now a long-time San Francisco Bay Area resident), Emily grew up loving and studying theater, from Off to On Broadway, as her multi-volume Playbill collection attests. Ending her 30-year law practice has given Ms. Mendel the time to indulge in her love of travel and the arts.
The de Young’s exciting retrospective of 20th-century photographer Irving Penn (1917–2009) highlights the broad breadth of this creative artist. Although…
I don’t usually see theater in Walnut Creek, the manicured suburb east of San Francisco. But I wanted to see…
You know a play got under your skin when you dream about it. And yes, after seeing Lloyd Suh’s spellbinding…
” When a play is set in a cheery multi-room house replete with Christmas decorations, a warm fire, and snow-kissed…
The de Young Museum opened its abundant costume department storage closets for its newest exhibition, “Fashioning San Francisco: A Century…
The astonishing, immersive psychedelic artwork of Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama (b.1929) is all the rage in San Francisco these days….
It was a pleasure to see San Francisco Playhouse’s outstanding production of the beloved Tony award-winning 1950 musical, “Guys and…
For the first-ever exhibition dedicated to the rare drawings of world-famous Renaissance artist Sandro Botticelli, San Francisco’s Legion of Honor…
There are some evocative, lyrical scenes in “Bulrusher,” Eisa Davis’s beautiful coming-of-age story of life in 1955 in the remote…
It’s about time we saw a play that made us laugh. Our world is filled with trouble and woe, so…
The remarkable exhibit at The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life, University of California, Berkeley, features never-before-seen work by…
Kehinde Wiley (born 1977) is a contemporary American portrait painter known for his highly naturalistic portraits of modern-day Black people…
Few plays could seem more intriguing to me than a noir mystery set in San Francisco. Written by Obie Award-winning…