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An exhibit of Ramses the Great is spending 4 years touring around the world. It currently is in San Francisco at the DeYoung Museum before it moves on to its next stop. Who Was Ramses II and Why Was He So Great? Was Ramses II really one of Egypt’s more powerful pharaohs or was he […]
Diego Rivera is a famed early 20th-century muralist. The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art is currently exhibiting over 150 of his paintings, frescoes, and drawings that highlight his work from the 1920s to the 1940s when he was conceiving a new vision for North America. The Mexican Revolution Diego Rivera began his artistic career […]
After several years of Covid-related postponements, Family Winemakers annual trade and consumer San Francisco wine tasting event has returned. Its 2022 event was held in a very nice venue in Oakland. Who are Family Winemakers? Family Winemakers is a non-profit group that was formed in 1990 by small, family wineries. They joined together to fight […]
The DeYoung Museum had a special exhibition in 2022, “Alice Neel: People Come First”. The exhibit traced Alice Neel’s career. She is a frequently overlooked social realist artist who some consider “the greatest American portraitist of the 20th century.” Alice Neal’s Perspective Neel was born into an upper middle-class family in 1900. She immediately began […]
February 2022 saw the resumption of the traditionally annual North American Tre Bicchieri roadshow after the pandemic-mandated halt to large-scale, trade-only wine tastings. Tre Bicchieri, which translates into “three glass” is the designation that Gambero Rosso, home of the comprehensive Vini d’Italia wine guide gives to the fewer than one percent of the more than […]
San Francisco’s Chinese New Year Parade had been an annual tradition since 1851…that is until Covid forced a break last year. But it came back in 2022 with the year of the Tiger. Thousands of people came out to watch it wend its way from San Francisco’s Financial District, past Union Square reviewing stands, and […]