a detail of The Massacre of the Innocents by Peter Paul Rubens, which I saw at the Early Rubens exhibit at the Legion of Honor
28 December is the feast of the Holy Innocents; let's take a moment to remember the children separated from their families at our southern border, and that nearly half of our fellow citizens were A-OK with that
a Nutcracker statue in front of City Hall, San Leandro, California, December 2020
detail from The Nativity by the Master of the Retable of the Reyes Católicos, now in the Legion of Honor, San Francisco
\Yesterday was the feast day of Saint Lucy, so here is her signature dish, as painted by Francisco de Zurbarán (now in the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC)
Saint John the Baptist in alabaster: a Spanish sculpture from around 1550, now in the Art Institute of Chicago
a detail from Centerpiece: The Scarf Dance (Surtout: le jeu de l'écharpe), designed by Léonard-Agathon van Weydeveld and manufactured by Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory; seen at the Art Institute of Chicago
detail of a quilt from Rosie Lee Tompkins: A Retrospective at the Berkeley Art Museum / Pacific Film Archive
Apollo chases Daphne on a nineteenth century Venetian mirror, now in the Raphael Room at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston
"Judas" figure by Leonardo Linares, part of the exhibition Frida Kahlo and Arte Popular, seen at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, in June 2019
an earthenware bowl decorated with a rabbit, circa 1000 - 1130 CE, by a Mimbres artist, now in the de Young Museum in San Francisco
detail of Virgin and Child (Madonna of the Book) by Botticelli, seen at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, as part of the 2017 exhibit Botticelli and the Search for the Divine
a Byzantine mosaic of a grazing camel; this charming fellow now grazes at the Art Institute of Chicago
a large sculpture outside of the abandoned Pipe Factory in Oakland (where West Edge Opera performed in summer 2017)
a section of Ugo Rondinone's the world just makes me laugh, at the Berkeley Art Museum in the summer of 2017
detail of a Wearing Blanket (Third-Phase Chief Blanket) by a Navajo (Diné) artist, now in the de Young Museum
a statue from San Francisco's Panama-Pacific Exhibit of 1915, still in Golden Gate Park
This is a detail of Flowers & Landscapes, painted by Yun Shouping in 1676; this is an illustration for the Qing Dynasty play The Peach Blossom Fan, and I saw it at the Berkeley Art Museum in March 2018, and I can't remember what exhibit it was in
