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Across the Nation• September 23, 2019

LA JOLLA MUSIC SOCIETY’S NEW HOME: THE CONRAD PREBYS PERFORMING ARTS CENTER

Jeanne Lawrence returns to her once home, La Jolla, to attend the opening of the La Jolla Music Society’s new home, the Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center...

Palm Beach Social Diary: Garden Gold at Palm Beach

Across the Nation• April 30, 2019.

Palm Beach Social Diary: Garden Gold at Palm Beach. Augustus Mayhew attends the Garden Club of Palm Beach’s Gold Leaf, a GCA Flower Show at The Society of the Four Arts. Ribbons, certificates, trophies, and just plain Beauty... READ MORE

Palm Beach Social Diary: 2019 GOG A GOGO Spring Disco Ball

Across the Nation• April 25, 2019.

Down in Palm Beach, the season may be over but the beat goes on at the GOG (Gentlemen of the Garden) A GOGO Disco Ball hosted by Bob Eigelberger and Susie Phipps Cochran plus a tour of Eigelberger’s work in real estate development and preservation; and a look at Casa Phippsberger... READ MORE

SAN FRANCISCO SOCIAL DIARY

Across the Nation• April 23, 2019.

Jeanne Lawrence out in San Francisco attends the California Pacific Medical Center (CPMC) Foundation’s grand gala featuring bountiful buffets, music performances throughout, and interactive exhibitions that introduced attendees to the Van Ness Campus’s advanced medical technology and personal touches... READ MORE

Palm Beach Social Diary: Spring Splendor on Palm Beach

Across the Nation• April 9, 2019.

T'is the Season no longer down among the sheltering palms of Palm Beach, winter residents are migrating north but Augustus Mayhew gives us a quick view of the annual Mounts Botanical Garden Spring Benefit at the home of Susanne and Douglas Durst, and a book signing at the Colony for Wendy Moonan and her new book on New York City rooms. ... READ MORE

Sarasota Social Diary: Voyage to Paradise

Across the Nation• April 8, 2019.

Down in sunny Sarasota, Geraldine Fabrikant was busy attending Sarasota Bay's Selby Gardens’ annual Orchid Ball, "Gauguin: Voyage to Paradise," declared a “triumph!”; also the Ringling School of Art and Design’s annual “Avant Garde” gala... READ MORE

Historic Charleston Foundation’s Festival of Houses & Gardens

Across the Nation• April 3, 2019.

Stephanie Green makes her way down south for Historic Charleston Foundation's Festival of Houses & Gardens just as the wisteria, camellias, and azaleas were bursting with vibrancy... READ MORE

Art Matters: Susan Phipps Cochran + Peggy Guggenheim

Across the Nation• March 31, 2019.

Augustus Mayhew, back from his sojourn to Venice and other parts of Italy, takes us on a tour of the works and world of Peggy Guggenheim, and other women artists Susan Phipps Cochran, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, Diana Guest, also an artist... READ MORE

WINTER EVENTS IN SAN FRANCISCO

Across the Nation• March 25, 2019.

Jeanne Lawrence covers a bevy of opening events in San Francisco, including the opening of Adam Lindemann's Venus Over Manhattan, "Kimono Refashioned" at the Asian Art Museum, and a ceremony for Maria Manetti Shrem, who was awarded the Order of The Star of Italy... READ MORE

Palm Beach Al Fresco

Across the Nation• February 12, 2019.

Spring is in the air. When better to stroll the North Ocean Boulevard to view Gardner Hale’s Wall of the Winds at Villa Flora or unwind with an exhilarating Sunday Brunch catamaran cruise, albeit windy, on the Intracoastal Waterway with the dolphins and the jet skis. “The first frescoes painted on the façade of the […]... READ MORE

Palm Beach Landscapes: Art & Artifacts

Across the Nation• January 28, 2019.

Abstract landscape painter Mary Page Evans is at work in her oceanfront Gulf Stream apartment with “picturesque Turner-Constable sea and sky” for a Spring show of her work, Gardens Through the Years, at Wilmington’s Somerville Manning Gallery. At Gavlak Gallery’s new venue at the Royal Poinciana Plaza, Kyle DeWoody and Sara Gavlak welcomed ... READ MORE

Palm Beach Landscapes: Art & Artifacts

Across the Nation• January 15, 2019.

Palm Beach may still be disoriented from not having to navigate roadblocks, delays and detours during Christmas and New Year’s holidays. Apparently, the lack of annoyance may have bewildered the driver of a Ferrari that recently drove off the North End dock and into the channel. Purposely, according to the local police. Yet another, this [&he... READ MORE

Palm Beach: Now/Then – Night/Day

Across the Nation• December 17, 2018.

However unearthly Palm Beach may appear from the mainland — how high the hedges, how thick the walls — last week’s SRO Town Council meeting might have been anywhere, attracting hours of debate about, what else, ” … noise, parking and traffic.” Islanders took time away from bridge tables, trunk shows and organizing shoe c... READ MORE

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LA JOLLA MUSIC SOCIETY’S NEW HOME: THE CONRAD PREBYS PERFORMING ARTS CENTER

Palm Beach Social Diary: Garden Gold at Palm Beach

Palm Beach Social Diary: 2019 GOG A GOGO Spring Disco Ball

SAN FRANCISCO SOCIAL DIARY

Palm Beach Social Diary: Spring Splendor on Palm Beach

Sarasota Social Diary: Voyage to Paradise

Historic Charleston Foundation’s Festival of Houses & Gardens

Art Matters: Susan Phipps Cochran + Peggy Guggenheim

WINTER EVENTS IN SAN FRANCISCO

Palm Beach Al Fresco

Palm Beach Landscapes: Art & Artifacts

Palm Beach Landscapes: Art & Artifacts

Palm Beach: Now/Then – Night/Day

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