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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Fort Mason Center has long been a site for art and culture in San Francisco. Over the years, with the presence of San Francisco City College art classes, culturally specific art in... Read More
The San Francisco Symphony’s Adventures in Music program celebrated its 30th anniversary April 24. Joining the celebration were San Francisco Symphony President Sakurako Fisher; ... Read More
Saoirse Ronan’s Academy Award-nominated supporting performance as a precocious but troubled 13-year-old in Atonement — a 2007 British period drama — provided clear evidence t... Read More
The legendary surrealist painter René Magritte will be the subject of a retrospective of his late work at SFMOMA. More than 20 artworks will be shown for the first time in a U.S. ... Read More
I took my first ocean cruise: down the coast of California, to Ensenada, Mexico. And the upshot? As pleasurable as parts of it were, I don’t need to take another cruise anytime s... Read More
The Legion of Honor brings a rare exhibition to San Francisco by one of the most significant painters of our time. Julian Schnabel’s first West Coast exhibition in 30 years featu... Read More
As mass media became increasingly massive during the past five decades, some pundit or scholar developed the concept of “information overload.” One might imagine a poor unfortu... Read More