Abraham-Louis Breguet invented many of the standard components of today’s most prestigious watches, earning the title “The Father of Modern Horology.” The self-winding watch, the gong spring, the ...

Born in Paris in 1900, Yves Tanguy traveled the world as a merchant marine, and began sketching café scenes after his service. In 1924, he moved into a house that would become a gathering place for ...

San Francisco, April 2009—This summer the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco present a retrospective of John Baldessari’s prints at the Legion of Honor. Over 100 prints are included in the exhibition ...

The de Young is San Francisco’s oldest art museum, treasured in a unique verdant setting. Beginning as the Golden Gate Park Memorial Museum in 1895, this museum has been a valued center of world art ...

These focused interest groups draw individuals together around education and social opportunities, as well as specific areas of the collections. Participants enjoy exclusive events, lectures, and ...

De la Renta applied sumptuous textiles and intricate embellishments and embroideries to his fashions, often drawing inspiration from European history. He referenced both the extravagant court of ...

Over the course of a 50-year career, Stephen De Staebler (1933–2011) created totemic figurative sculptures in clay and bronze—powerful, elegiac forms that embody fragility and resiliency, separation ...

Between 1690 and 1720, European weavers and consumers embraced a fanciful fashion—“bizarre” silk, characterized by unconventional, abstract designs that combined Asian influenced patterns with the ...

Housed in a splendid 17th-century palace in The Hague, the Royal Picture Gallery Mauritshuis holds one of the world’s greatest collections of Dutch Golden Age paintings. Boasting exemplary works by ...