Having helped change how artists depicted the world in the late 1800s, premier French impressionist Claude Monet began pushing boundaries…
Paul Gauguin, the French post-impressionist painter and rule-breaker whose flattened imagery, bold colors and Polynesian subjects significantly influenced modern art,…
Two years ago, this month, Heather Miller was killed bicycling through Golden Gate Park. The tragedy was only the first…
Art and artifacts excavated from Teotihuacan — Mexico’s most significant archaeological site — are on view at the de Young…
Museum exhibit previews are rarely emotional, but a recent one for the de Young’s “Maori Portraits” show was an exception….
The phrase “summer of love” seems to be everywhere in the Bay Area these days: adorning bus ads; at the…
Painter and photographer Ed Ruscha is known for his gas-station pictures and word paintings as well as pop, conceptual, romantic,…
Quite a bit about “Oscar de la Renta,” the first major retrospective of the acclaimed designer’s fashions now on view…
Along San Francisco’s northern waterfront in 1915, thousands of residents and visitors admired such works of art as Claude Monet’s…
Joseph Mallord William Turner created staggeringly luminous paintings – mythological, historical and natural landscapes gleaming with sunlight or misty with…
