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Screenshot of the Contemporary Jewish Museum's virtual tour of its exhibit “Levi Strauss: A History of American Style.”
Posted inArt & About

Art, concerts and museums during a pandemic: What is ‘local’?

Laura Pall by Laura Paull March 27, 2020March 30, 2020

Once upon a time, there were breaks built into the week called Friday and Saturday night, and Sunday afternoon, and even evenings during the workweek when citizens of the Greater […]

Raphael Bob-Waksberg with his book “Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory.” (Courtesy Alfred A. Knopf)
Posted inTV & Film

Two luminous works of art on love and faith to see in the Bay Area this holiday season

Laura Pall by Laura Paull December 12, 2019December 17, 2019
“Unite” (1971) by Barbara Jones-Hugu, from the exhibit “Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power”
Posted inArt & About

Revisiting 1968 at the de Young; art, booze and sacred words in East Bay

Laura Pall by Laura Paull November 14, 2019November 13, 2019
A pair of Blue Oyster mushrooms, seen in the documentary "Fantastic Fungi" (Photo/Courtesy Greta Zagarino-Greta Rose Agency)
Posted inArt & About

Art around the Bay this month: hate speech, sacred texts and shrooms

Laura Pall by Laura Paull September 5, 2019September 4, 2019
Three works by Amy Trachtenberg, whose work will be shown at Luggage Store Gallery in San Francisco beginning June 14 (Photo/Laura Paull)
Posted inCulture

Summer has landed in the Bay Area, bringing new art with it

Laura Pall by Laura Paull June 12, 2019June 12, 2019
“The Chronicles of San Francisco” mural of 1,200 San Franciscans includes several from the Jewish community — can you find them? (Photo/Courtesy SFMOMA)
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1,200 San Franciscans in one giant digital mural; and more arts around the Bay

Laura Pall by Laura Paull May 15, 2019May 21, 2019

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