The official portraits of President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama were unveiled at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery…
Art & Architecture
SFMOMA’s fascinating “Diego Rivera’s America” is an overview of two very creative and productive decades of the artist’s life, from…
What does being serious mean? Is it a long face which harbors the best of intentions? Or is it virtue…
Alice Neel (1900–1984) is one of many American women artists underappreciated during her lifetime. She didn’t fit in with the…
As a decades-long Joni Mitchell fan, I have attempted to explain to others the difference between Joni and Joan Mitchell…
The appointment of Furio Rinaldi as the new Curator of Drawings and Prints of the two Fine Arts Museums of…
Now at UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) are nearly 140 powerful works by a broad collection…
I savored immersing myself in the music of the transformative singer/songwriter/poet Leonard Cohen in the days before I attended “Experience…
A good retrospective art exhibit presents an overview of an artist’s oeuvre with biographical details and commentary about the work….
Excitement filled the crowded press conference at San Francisco’s de Young Museum last week as the pioneering iconic artist Judy…
The dramatic account of Pompeii’s last days before the deadly AD 79 eruption is explored in this dramatic yet ultimately…
San Francisco’s newly re-opened de Young Museum is hosting the first American showing of a major exhibition, “Calder-Picasso.” It’s an…
After six endlessly long months of closure, four San Francisco Museums, the de Young Museum (opening September 25, 2020), the…
“The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the object. So that no one would…