San Francisco Public Library Art, Music and Recreation Center

The World Wide Web has opened up an amazing array of images in digital format. However, even though the internet provides a true bounty, it...

BLUE ... is the color of the sky, and the oceans and of tranquility. Lapis lazuli was the stone that was ground to create the intense blue o...

Colour Amour , an exhibition celebrating the history, science and art of color, opened January 10 at the Main Library, Fourth Floor. Inspire...

An excellent source for a historical perspective of costume is 20,000 Years of Fashion by Francois Boucher . This book uses photographs of ...

Scene from "Lucia di Lammermoor," at Her Majesty's Theatre: "Lucia," Mdlle. Piccolomini, "Edgardo," M. Giu...

Punch and Judy, drawn by F. Barnard, from the "Puppets" folder of the Art, Music & Recreation Center picture file Nowadays in...

-->Today, December 10, 2008, is the 157 th anniversary of Melville Dewey’s birth. Libraries and their users of course owe a great d...