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Category: Arts & Entertainment

The Bay Area is a hub of artistic expression, attracting artists, writers and musicians from around the globe to live, work and create. We highlight some of the offerings here and invite you to sign up for a weekly newsletter with the weekend’s Best Bets.

In Kinetic Light’s ‘DESCENT’ dance, mythological figures romance each other on a celestial wheelchair ramp

by Amelia Williams, Bay City News Foundation

In acclaimed French sculptor Auguste Rodin’s “Toilette of Venus and Andromeda,” the hunched form of Andromeda, awaiting her death by sea monster, shows her smooth back to the nude figure of Venus, who appears to be kneeling and washing her hair. The two don’t look at each other, nor are they connected physically in any […]