The SuperNatural Halloween celebration was back at The California Academy of Sciences on October 26, where over 2000 guests donned their costumes and had a ghostly good time trick-or-treating through the world’s…
Art/Museums
DECEMBER Dec. 1 – 24A.C.T. | A Christmas Carol Photo: Kevin Berne This cornerstone of the A.C.T. repertoire is a holiday tradition for Bay Area families. Charles Dickens’ classic features a large…
Our festive holiday season delivers beloved traditions. For 80 years, the Nutcracker ballet has charmed audiences since its American debut in San Francisco. Handel’s oratorio Messiah is a stunning, large-scale production featuring…
To celebrate the opening of its 102nd season, the San Francisco Opera treated guests to an on-theme Opera Ball that paid homage to this year’s new production of Giuseppe Verdi’s Un Ballo…
The San Jose Museum of Art (SJMA) hosted its 2024 Gala + Auction on September 21. The gorgeous event was staged both inside the museum and outside on the Circle of Palms…
The Exploratorium’s annual family fundraising event, Wonder Funday, took place on October 6. The event offered up an epic playdate by the Bay, where guests could explore the marine biome under the…
On October 10, more than 400 of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco’s donors gathered at the de Young for a magnificent start to the Museums’ 2024-2025 Exhibition Season: a preview…
Elena Gilbert’s art is a testament to the power of vulnerability. Through her deeply emotional and introspective pieces, she invites viewers to confront the feelings we often shy away from—grief, longing, love,…
Museums by Moonlight, an elegant black tie gala benefiting Stanford University’s Cantor Arts Center and the Anderson Collection, welcomed guests on September 14. Held only once every two years, the highly anticipated…
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…
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…
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…
The annual San Francisco Consular Corps 4th of July party, hosted by Chief of Protocol Maryam Mudurglu and sponsored by Kevin Xu, was held this year at the beautiful Maritime Museum in…
The Headlands Center for the Arts hosted over 200 art lovers and patrons at their Marin Headlands campus for their annual art auction and benefit on June 6. Guests were welcomed into…
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…
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…
On May 30 the de Young Museum was the site of a special celebration of designer Christopher John Rogers, a fast-rising rising star first championed by Bay Area fashion leader Sherri McMullen.…
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…
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 de Young Museum recently hosted a reception on May 15, 2024, celebrating the generous contributions of Bernard and Barbro Osher to the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. Their collection, spanning…