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Friday, August 08, 2025

More About the San Francisco Opera Archive

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War Memorial Opera House Not the actual site of the Archive Earlier this year, San Francisco Opera's performance archive went back on l...

Friday Photo

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Seen in Hatch, NM Colors enhanced by phonecam software July, 2025  
Wednesday, August 06, 2025

New General Director at Opera Parallèle

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Press release from the company, to which I will add that Tod Brody, now the executive director at the Marin Symphony, was Opera Parallèle...

Just a Reminder

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Photo by Lisa Hirsch The San Francisco Symphony, which bills itself as one of the most innovative orchestras in the world, came up with this...
Tuesday, August 05, 2025

Recent Articles

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I've published a couple of articles in SFCV that I never posted specifically about: Emma McNairy Artist Spotlight ("Emma McNairy is...
Monday, August 04, 2025

Museum Mondays

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David Ghirlandaio Virgin and Child, with Saints Apollonia and Sebastian, 1490s Philadelphia Museum of Art April, 2025
Friday, August 01, 2025

Eroica Award to Christian Rudolf Riedel

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From MOLA: An Association of Music Performance Librarians, comes the news that they've awarded their 2025 Eroica Award to Christian Rudo...
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Friday Photo

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Food on display Ottolenghi London, 2024  
Monday, July 28, 2025

Museum Mondays

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Salvator Rosa, "Human Frailty" Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge July, 2024  
Friday, July 25, 2025

Friday Photo

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  Central Synagogue Lexington Avenue, NYC April, 2025
Tuesday, July 22, 2025

More on the NY Times Bad News

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Hat tip to Steve Smith  for pointing me to Hell Gate's reporting on the NY Times arts criticism news. Hell Gate reports the following: ...
Monday, July 21, 2025

Museum Mondays

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Diana and the Stag Automaton, c. 1620 Joachim Friess Metropolitan Museum of Art April, 2025  
Friday, July 18, 2025

Friday Photo

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Chevy Chase Rose Oakland, CA May, 2025  
Wednesday, July 16, 2025

Bad News from the New York Times

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The New York Times has decided to "reassign" several members of its arts criticism staff to what they are calling "new roles....
Tuesday, July 15, 2025

Opera San José Resident Artists, 2025-26

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Opera San José has announced its 2025-26 resident artists. I'm familiar with two them: Nicole Koh, who was a delightful Papagena in OSJ...
Monday, July 14, 2025

Museum Mondays

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Untitled Ruth Asawa, 1949 Cataloged as S. 264, Hanging Two-Lobed, Single-Layered, Continuous Form San Francisco Museum of Modern Art July, 2...