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...every seat Take a Hike Destinations to restore your sense of wonder What's more surprising: Finding a classically trained composer at M.I.T.'s Media Lab or discovering that his research there has produced a Fisher-Price toy? Either way, it is hard to question the pedigree of Symphony Painter, a new kind of electronic music software designed for the Color Pixter electronic sketchpad. The brainchild of M.I.T. professor Tod Machover, Symphony Painter ($20, fisher-price.com; Color Pixter sold separately) combines visual arts and music: you draw a picture and then press the triangular play button to hear a musical interpretation...
Yoshitaka Kiyama (1885 - 1951) arrived in San Francisco in 1904 to study art at what was then known as the Mark Hopkins Institute of Art, later to become the San Francisco Art Institute. Over the course of 20 years Kiyama studied traditional western art, becoming a painter of some note. He also took to cartooning, undoubtedly inspired by American newspaper comics, which were reaching the peak of their golden era at the time. In a style seemingly inspired by the likes of George McManus' "Bringing Up Father" and Harold Gray's "Little Orphan Annie," Kiyama created 52 episodes...
MILES DAVIS' PAINTING Late in life the trumpeter got serious about the visual arts. Inspired by a movement of colorful art in Milan, Davis found acclaim as a painter in Spain and Japan. Estimate...
...central coast, Sears bought a new board and drove to Mexico again the next winter, this time staying for six weeks, long enough to get back into great paddling shape and for his old skills to click. The next winter he took his wife, a former librarian and amateur painter, and stayed for six weeks again. The next winter they doubled their time, enjoying the waves and the migrating gray whales, and they have been spending three months in Mexico each winter ever since. Sears does not surf when he's at home in Morro Bay, but in Baja...
...enough to surprise. You'll want to visit the Hotel de Dieu with its stunning multicolor-tile peaked roofs. Now a museum, it is filled with nice details of its former incarnation as a medieval hospital. Housed inside is The Last Judgment, an extraordinary painting in polyptych by Flemish painter Roger van der Weyden...