Art and Culture

Fans of the “Nutcracker” can view the historical piece at the San Francisco Ballet for the next month. The ballet’s first performance took place in the city in 1944. NBC Bay Area’s Raj Mathai spoke with Carmela Mayo, a ballerina and soloist, to understand what it takes to play an iconic role in the ballet. 

Meet the winning team of curators and staff members behind SFMOMA’s Get in the Game: Sports, Art, Culture. Explore a collection of stories that show how sports impacts our culture and our psyches. The intersection of art and sport is more alike than we think! Open through February 18. 2025. Visit sfmoma.org for tickets.

Join NBC Bay Area for the 2025 Black Joy Parade’s Icons Among Us. Icons Among Us seeks to recognize activists and icons yet to be crowned. After being selected, Icons will receive a $5,000 contribution to the nonprofit of their choice. These contributions aim to recognize Icons’ commitment to creating space for Black joy to prosper and thrive. Black Joy…

Experience the joy, culture, and community at the 9th Annual Black Joy Parade, returning to downtown Oakland on Sunday, February 23, 2025. Presented by Black Infant Health, this year’s parade promises an authentic, unapologetically Black atmosphere where guests of all backgrounds are invited to join in the joy. The celebration includes a parade, live performances, local vendors, and family-friendly activities. …

California Live’s Jessica Vilchis and Amber Pfister go on a mom’s day-drinking adventure to the first Santa Monica tasting room by AJA Vineyards and meet founder and wine proprietor, Amanda Rubin, to learn about the brand and what makes Malibu wine so unique.

California Live correspondent Vicki Johnson visits Polar Playground in Huntington Beach where cotton candy artist spin colorful sugar clouds into edible pieces of yummy art! Watch them make their most viral creation–a fluffy white unicorn!

Pantone announced Mocha Mousse as its 2025 Color of the Year. Here are the colors that were selected for the honor over the last 10 years.

The light-filled art installation is embracing the illuminated season in a festive fashion.

Actor Ravi Cabot Conyers sits down with California Live’s Jessica Vilchis to tell her about the latest “Star Wars: Skeleton Crew” series on Disney+ and working with actor Jude Law!

California Live’s Jessica Vilchis gets a sneak peek into our December astrology forecast with Astrologer and Author Stephanie Campos.

California Live meets up with Cory Barnett from San Jose. He’s a leafy rascal known as the bay area Bushman! He took up the alias a couple of years ago and has been pranking people ever since with the goal of lifting spirits and making people laugh.

In California’s most violent big city, a local artisan is teaming up with a faith-based nonprofit to get guns off the streets — and turn them into implements of peace.

In California’s most violent big city, a local artisan is teaming up with a faith-based nonprofit to get guns off the streets — and turn them into implements of peace.

California Live’s Jobeth Devera is giving us a VIP tour of Arion Press, where the art of old-world bookmaking flourishes under a single roof. This unique institution is America’s last bastion of fine press book production, combining letter press printing, hand-binding, and typecasting in a seamless operation.

California Live’s Amber Pfister heads to IAMLA to meet with author Marianna Gatto to chat about her new book and explore the new exhibit, Creative Minds, featuring Italian inventors in LA. 

A scene of water lilies by French impressionist painter Claude Monet sold for $65.5 million earlier this week.

A banana duct-taped to a wall, a conceptual piece of art titled “Comedian” by Maurizio Cattelan, fetched $6.24 million at auction at Sotheby’s Wednesday.

After debuting to much fanfare in 2019, a piece of conceptual art consisting of a banana duct-taped to a wall has sold for $6.2 million at an auction in New York City.

Walk into any supermarket and you can generally buy a banana for less than $1. But a banana duct-taped to a wall? That might sell for more than $1 million at an upcoming auction at Sotheby’s in New York.

Alex Heveri’s “Glass in Flight,” a traveling exhibit, will be on vivacious view during the 2025 season.