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You can’t have not heard about the Golden Gate Bridge. And you’ve probably heard about the Bixby Bridge and Bay Bridge, even the San Mateo and Richmond – San Raphael bridges in California if you are familiar with the state. But there’s a lesser known bridge in Redding that ought...

I found these six men on a wall by the Monterey Bay Coastal Trail in Monterey, California. If you look at it closely, you might see some men from another age. According to John Cerney, ‘cannery workers from the 1930s’ are the subjects of this work of art. But if...

The Barnes and Noble Booksellers in Dublin, California has just the right kind of wall art for a bookstore. That corner of the bookstore where the Starbucks is, is marked with a couple of panels and paintings-on-the-wall. And what might the subject be — the most celebrated authors —...

If you take the Arch Rock entrance to Yosemite, you might see this mural in Mariposa, a town just outside the National Park. And this mural in Downtown Mariposa has so much to say about the town in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountain Range in California. Mariposa,...

Does that look like just another car porch? This is The Venetian’s carriage-porch. Look up at the ceilings and you will see that it is quite an ornate one. There is ‘art’ on The Venetian’s car porch.  Yes, there are Renaissance-style paintings not just inside the resort but also...

The grandeur of The Venetian Las Vegas is something one cannot ignore. It’s there in the rooms, the hallways, the pillars, the walls and even the ceilings. And when you talk about the walls and ceilings, the frescoes of The Venetian do more than just catch your eye. The...

Sophie Holding the World Together is a work of street art found in San Jose, California. This mural was done by Los Angeles based artist El Mac. This mural that went up in 2017 was commissioned by San Jose Museum of Art. About Sophie holding the world together, the...

Today I’m going to show you a few murals I spotted inside a restaurant in The Venetian in Las Vegas. On day 2 of our stay there we had just been on the Gondola Ride and seen the sky ceilings above the grand canal and were about to get...

There’s no dearth of amazement at The Venetian in Las Vegas. Now that I’ve shown you The Grand Canal in the Resort, let me show you the artistry on the walls and the ceilings. In the previous post, I mentioned the ‘illusion of being outdoors’ that you get while...