The Reverberate Hills; or The Apotheosis of the Narwhal

  Rodin's The Age of Bronze , at the Legion of Honor in San Francisco

It's the start of the calendar year, though the half-way point in the traditional performance calendar; time to dust off December's ...

  trees on the campus of UC Berkeley

 On Christmas With footstep slow, in furry pall yclad,     His brows enwreathed with holly never-sear,     Old Christmas comes, to close the...

  detail of The Adoration of the Shepherds by Joachim Anthonisz Wtewael, at the Legion of Honor in San Francisco

  San Francisco Bay, December 2024

The Faery Chasm No fiction was it of the antique age: \A sky-blue stone, within this sunless cleft, Is of the very foot-marks unbereft Which...

  detail of Amy Sherald's What's different about Alice is that she has the most incisive way of telling the truth , currently on vi...

  San Francisco, Financial District

  Ozymandias I met a traveler from an antique land Who said: two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert . . . near them, on th...