The Reverberate Hills; or The Apotheosis of the Narwhal

  detail of Bamboo by Yoshida Zōtaku, at the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco

  flowering tree, early spring

  detail of a 1786 cup & saucer (gobelet litron et soucoupe) with orange ground, decorated by Charles-Nicolas Buteux fils at the Sèvres...

Part 1 is here , Part 2 is here , Part 3 is here . King Lear Shakespeare Obviously one of the greatest plays ever written, & probably my...

  a tree in Orinda, early spring

Yesterday at the Taube Atrium Theater, the Merola Opera Program & the San Francisco Opera Center presented the first of this season...

  detail of Family II by Hung Liu, now in the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

April is National Poetry Month , so here is my favorite experience with poetry & algorithms: I was trying to recall a line by Ezra Pound...

  pigeons, not on the grass. alas

  detail of some of the "documentation and ephemera" of the performance piece A Ble Wail by Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, seen as part o...