Through Feb. 17, Miya Ando brings her dreamlike minimalist art to the Nancy Toomey Fine Art gallery located in San Francisco’s Minnesota Street Project. Pieces in the show includ... Read More
It’s said we leave our hearts in San Francisco, and Peter and I will certainly leave ours here. We’ve fallen in love with our new home city — not so new anymore, given we’v... Read More
Through Feb. 11, the Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture presents Playtime, three video installations by award-winning British artist Isaac Julien in the Bay Area. Julien’s... Read More
Myriad events ring in the new year, including The Edwardian Ball (pictured) and World’s Faire, in its 18th iteration of bringing the life of writer-illustrator Edward Gorey to li... Read More
It’s like clockwork when you cover the motion picture business. The beginning of a new year inevitably brings … one or more lists of the previous year’s best movies. So w... Read More
Diary of a Wimpy Kid #12: Getaway, by Jeff Kinney (hardcover) Theft by Finding Diaries 1977–2002, by David Sedaris (hardcover) The Case for Democracy: The Power of Freedom to ... Read More
‘Tis the season. Can’t miss it. Can’t avoid it. You can try to secularize it in a generic way (“Happy holidays!”), recalibrate your festive winter solstice focus to Hanuk... Read More
Really Big Lunch: The Roving Gourmand on Feed and Life, by Jim Harrison (hardcover) Origin: A Novel, by Dan Brown (hardcover) Thrill Me: Essays on Fiction, by Benjamin Percy (pap... Read More
As the holiday season approaches, those of us who cover the movie industry can be thankful the quality of the releases increases. It’s that time when we see the bulk of contender... Read More
The Asian Art Museum’s Couture Korea exhibition is a history lesson through fashion. Traditional culture is still relevant in modern Korea, and the traditional styles weave the ... Read More
Through March 25, 2018, SFMOMA presents the West Coast exclusive of Robert Rauschenberg: Erasing the Rules. As one of the heavyweights of contemporary art, Rauschenberg expanded t... Read More
What Happened, by Hillary Rodham Clinton (hardcover) Before the Fall, by Noah Hawley (paperback) I’ll Never Tell: The Odyssey of a Rock and Roll Priest, by Harry Schlitt (paperb... Read More
The anticipation of the fall network television season has been diminished in part by the year-round premieres of shows on cable and, in a relatively recent wrinkle, streaming serv... Read More
I admit reluctantly i prefer to hear small jazz groups — trios, quartets, sextets — in what we once called smoky nightclubs. That’s the way Stan Getz and the Modern Jazz Quar... Read More
This month, Oct. 14, the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco will present the first major Gustav Klimt exhibition on the West Coast through Jan. 28, 2018. A leader of the symbolist ... Read More