In Berkeley, one of the most anticipated events of the new year is the opening of the new Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive building. ...
J.M.W. Turner: Painting Set Free: At The de Young
My first experience with Turner in the wild was in 1986 at the Tate Museum in London on my first journey out of the United States. I specifically made ...
Yo-Yos & Half Squares: Contemporary California Quilts At The Oakland Museum of California
My Grandmother made quilts. My time spent in her home was surrounded by Bible stories and piles of remnant fabric left over from sewing our lives ...
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Fontainebleau
What is it about wandering around the long connecting hallways and galeries, snooping in corners, and oggling at furniture and artwork in the homes of ...
Keith Haring At The de Young
The afternoon in 1977 after Keith Haring saw the Pierre Alechinsky exhibition at the Carnegie Mellon Museum in Pittsburgh, he paced my living room in ...
My Urban Off The Grid Life
Growing up in the sixties and seventies, even in rural America, was an explosive and enlightening experience. Everything was changing. Everything was ...
Writing Travel: Advice For Everyone
When I was seventeen, my career goal was to be a travel photographer and an artist and a writer. I couldn't make up my mind if I wanted to go to ...
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Michelangelo At The Louvre
The Louvre is not a place one would instinctively visit to see work by the famous Renaissance sculptor Michelangelo Buonarotti. He does have work in ...
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Chasing My DNA: Part I: Prague
Czechoslovakia - a land of mystery. A place that for many years existed only on a map and in the creative memory of my Grandfather - a man who, years ...
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18, Villa Seurat
Breakfast, chez moi. Strong coffee with hot milk, two or three delicious warm croissants with sweet butter, and a touch of jam. And with the breakfast ...