Review: Phillips Collection show provides perspective to photos’ role in paintings

Posters advertising the Phillips Collection’s large and intriguing exhibition, “Snapshot: Painters and Photography, Bonnard to Vuillard,” invite the prospective audience to misread much of what is subtle and compelling about this show. Juxtaposing a photograph and painting by the Dutch artist George Hendrik Breit­ner , both showing a young woman wrapped in a kimono on a sumptuous sofa, this ...

Yolo Bypass Wildlife Area offers don't-miss bird viewing

Only a quick 10-mile drive from Sacramento is one of the region's best spots for viewing birds and other wildlife, the Vic Fazio Yolo Bypass Wildlife Area. It offers something most preserves can't: the ability to drive the preserve.

Riding high

David Hockney’s Yorkshire landscapes show that figurative painting – whether on an iPad or 32 joined canvases – is the most humanly involving visual form.