The Reverberate Hills; or The Apotheosis of the Narwhal

  detail of Bacchus & Ariadne by Corneille Van Clève, an early eighteenth-century French bronze now in the Legion of Honor

Usually I would launch this preview with some wit & wisdom for you, but I seem to have developed a new thing where I go to a performance...

  the Campanile, UC Berkeley

  detail of Legend by Lee ShinJa, currently on view at BAM/PFA as part of Lee ShinJa: Drawing with Thread (the label gives the title as L...

Yesterday was my first visit to the San Francisco Opera this season, midway through the run of Rigoletto , a magnificent production of this...

  the Douglas Tilden football sculpture at UC Berkeley

  a Serpent by Georges Antoine Baudouin, now at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

  random fruiting, Castro Valley, California

  detail of The Golden Age by Sir John Edward Poynter, at the Art Institute of Chicago

  end-of-summer grapes