Art/Museums

Events Calendar: October 2024

The season continues! This fall is important for the performing arts, cultural arts, and the design arts. Ensuring the future of our city’s wide-reaching cultural, educational, and training programs, Haute Living San…

Events Calendar: September 2024

  The season has arrived. Music, dining, dancing, and elegance pair beautifully with important performing arts, cultural arts, and the design arts. Ensuring the future of our city’s wide-reaching cultural, educational, and…

Audience Thrills to Mozart Opera at Festival Napa Valley

World-class talent converged on Wine Country on July 20 for an unforgettable performance of Mozart’s comic opera Abduction from the Seraglio. Guests experienced the thrilling onstage chemistry between soprano Brenda Rae and…

Events Calendar: August 2024

Through Aug. 11de Young | Fashioning San Francisco: A Century of Style Over 100  items, plus high fashion and haute couture on loan, in the first major presentation of the costume collection…

Events Calendar: July 2024

As city dwellers reach for another layer to ward off the seasonal chill, the calendar tells us it’s the height of summer. Never mind, plenty of heartwarming happenings are taking place across…

SFMOMA’s Donor Event with Carmelo Anthony and Derek Fordjour

SFMOMA hosted former NBA player Carmelo Anthony and artist Derek Fordjour in dialogue with Christopher Bedford for Intermedia: Dialogue Across Disciplines, a donor event on June 4, 2024. More than 100 guests…

Bouquets to Art 40th Anniversary

On Monday, June 3, The Fine Arts Museums’ welcomed nearly 700 flower lovers to Opening Night to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Bouquets to Art. From the very moment they entered, guests…

The San Francisco Zoo’s 2024 Zoofest Celebration

400 people gathered under the stars to celebrate the two-year term of Chairman Emeritus Edward Poole and his commitment to animal wellness at San Francisco Zoo & Gardens on May 4th. Cocktails…

The Exploratorium’s PHENOMENA(L) BALL 2024

The Exploratorium’s largest fundraising event of the year, Phenomena(l) Ball, took place on Friday, May 3, 2024. The event was a sensory celebration, starting with a raucous, live musical performance by brass…

Art Lovers Celebrate at SFMOMA’s Rolicking 2024 Art Bash

On April 24, SFMOMA wowed supporters with its signature annual blowout party: Art Bash. Running from 5 p.m.-1 a.m. and encompassing multiple events, Art Bash offers a singular night at the museum…

Cal Performances’ 2024 Gala Celebrates Dance

On April 4th, Cal Performances held their annual gala on campus at UC Berkeley. This year’s soiree celebrated three dance luminaries: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater’s Executive Director Bennett Rink, Interim Artistic…

Sharon Stone Shows Her Vulnerability in New Collection of Paintings

181 Fremont celebrated the art of actress Sharon Stone with an exclusive reception at the gallery on April 10th. Surrounded by 18 never-before-shown paintings, reception guests got to witness a wide-ranging conversation…

Events Calendar: June 2024

CURRENT Through July 21de Young | Irving Penn One of the 20th century’s greatest photographers was Vogue’s longest-standing contributor, revolutionizing fashion photography in the postwar era. Approximately 175 Irving Penn photographs spanning…

Events Calendar: May 2024

From Napa Valley and Healdsburg to North Beach and Half Moon Bay, this season graces the San Francisco Bay Area with outdoor festivals, fabulous concerts, cultural and theater performances, museum exhibitions, and…

100 Years of Fashion in San Francisco

Ever since wealthy Romans draped themselves in impractical togas adorned with a purple border as a status symbol, the styles worn by some have been designed to wordlessly speak to others. In…