The Reverberate Hills; or The Apotheosis of the Narwhal

  detail of a doorway, Oakland California

  title & logo of the 10 February 1867 edition of the Parisian newspaper La Lune , seen as part of the exhibit    Alexandre Dumas’s Afr...

As is traditional, July is a slow month, though there are still plenty of exciting prospects, particularly for film or opera buffs. Theatric...

  the Transamerica Pyramid

  detail of Christian Martyr Tarcisius (El Hadji Malick Gueye) by Kehinde Wiley, from the special exhibit   Kehinde Wiley: An Archaeology o...

 . . . He has hidden his own name, a fair name, William, in the plays, a super here, a clown there, as a painter of old Italy set his face i...

 

  detail of   The Buddha Shakyamuni as an Ascetic , now in the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco

Last night I was at Davies Hall to hear the San Francisco Symphony in the first of a three-performance stand of Adriana Mater , the 2005 op...

  a sidewalk in Oakland