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Art World

Spotlight on India’s everyday Mithila art

By Sharon Anderson

The Asian Art Museum presents a vibrant, traditional arts movement in Painting is My Everything founded by women of the Mithila region in India. These paintings were originally cre... Read More
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If a tree falls in the forest, and I don’t journal it, did it really happen?

By Evalyn Baron

“Well, I may as well try to make some sense of it all.” I wrote that sentence on a muggy Atlanta day, having just graduated from Northwestern University with a Bachelor of Arts... Read More
Television

Sifting through the fall television season

By Michael Snyder

Are viewers suffering from narrative fatigue due to the unprecedented year-round increase in television programming since we entered the era of streaming video content? Maybe, but ... Read More
Art World

Book review: ‘Modernists and Mavericks: Bacon, Freud, Hockney and The London Painters,’ by Martin Gayford

By Sharon Anderson

Martin Gayford’s latest book takes on the history of London artists from the end of World War II to the 1970s. More than just an art history book, Gayford weaves stories about re... Read More
Art World

Maybaum Gallery opens with Formal Dimension: Inaugural Group Exhibition

By Sharon Anderson

After 14 years as a top Bay Area art dealer, Christina Maybaum has opened a new gallery at 49 Geary. The inaugural group exhibition runs through Aug. 31 featuring emerging and mid-... Read More
Movie Reviews

Just what the doc ordered

By Michael Snyder

The beauty of the documentary is the wide range of subjects and points of view the format can accommodate, whether simply celebrating a life, showcasing a significant moment in tim... Read More
A & E

SFJAZZ Center’s Summer of Jazz: Music is in the Air

By Anthony Torres

It is summer in San Francisco and music is in the air. So far, the SFJazz Festival and Summer Sessions have been rolling along so successfully it is impossible to touch on the mult... Read More
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My little ‘dom boli’: My house of pain

By Evalyn Baron

O.K., I’ll admit it: I have been an absolutely lazy slug about getting to the gym. I’ve even abandoned my beloved mermaid swim class in favor of lying around, reading books, an... Read More
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Let’s all read the Declaration of Independence this July 4

By Evalyn Baron

Sinclair Lewis wrote a novel in 1935, It Can’t Happen Here, a brooding, satirical tale of a politician/demagogue who manages to capture the imagination and votes of the befuddled... Read More
Films

Seeking out and savoring big-screen San Francisco

By Michael Snyder

Some time back, I was at my Russian Hill abode with friends to watch a VHS tape of a 1974 buddy movie about two San Francisco police detectives who don’t play by the book. (Yes,... Read More
Art World

SFMOMA presents U.S. exclusive retrospective of photographer Susan Meiselas

By Sharon Anderson

From July 21 through Oct.21, 2018, SFMOMA brings together the first West Coast retrospective of the American photographer Susan Meiselas. Meiselas’s work covers an ambitious rang... Read More
A & E

Mind Place at Creativity Explored

By Anthony Torres

Creativity Explored is one of the most significant art education centers and little-known exhibition spaces in the San Francisco Bay Area. It is committed to empowering and promoti... Read More
Enter Stage Left

Pirate Ev, the jewel of the California coast

By Evalyn Baron

My friend Henry M. wrote this gentle lament after reading my May column about my calm cruise to Mexico: “No card playing and drinking straight tequila til drunk then stealing a l... Read More
Films

Hot summertime movies

By Michael Snyder

In the middle of what an old Nat “King” Cole tune referred to as “those lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer,” certain folks choose to take a break from the heat in a nice, air... Read More
Art World

The Cult of the Machine: Precisionism and American Art at the de Young

By Sharon Anderson

The de Young Museum is presenting a large-scale, traveling survey of Precisionism, the first modern art movement to come out of the United States. During the early 20th century, Pr... Read More


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