For music lovers, one of the pandemic’s cruelest twists is the way that Covid-19 turned intimacy into a liability. Almost overnight, the cozy venues providing the closest encounters with musicians ...

Editor’s Note: ‘Backstage Heroes’ spotlights the many movers and shakers working behind the arts scenes to make magic happen in the Bay Area. Guiding us is Hiya Swanhuyser, a veteran fan and ...

Square foot for square foot, no venue in San Francisco has made a bigger impact over the past 15 years than the Red Poppy Art House. A storefront Mission District performance space and studio run on a ...

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The holidays can be tough on jazz and world music fans in the San Francisco Bay Area. It seems the clubs and restaurants are all looking to please the crowds that go out rarely, but suddenly appear ...

Poppy artist Paul Cummins is back, and this time he is presenting a large-scale sculpture made with… tulips. The British artist caused a veritable media and audience frenzy earlier this past year with ...

GRAND RAPIDS — Among hundreds of entries for ArtPrize, a memorial poppy field from West Michigan is featured. Maggie Bandstra installed her painting, inspired by the field, at 10 a.m. Monday, Sept. 13 ...

Altoona Area High School Lavendia Guo sculpted a heart out of foam and then covered it in poppies for her part of a Veterans Day project led by Saint Francis’ Center of Fine Arts. Mirror photo by ...

Prince William and Kate Middleton, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, were joined by Price Harry at the official unveiling of ceramic artist Paul Cummins and stage designer Tom Piper’s Blood Swept ...