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Maxville Winery launches commercial kitchen, Stony Hill Vineyards open new tasting experience, the Ackerman Heritage House hosts a tasting and tours, and Sonoma winemakers petition for a Sebastopol Hills AVA.

"Monumentally Fragile" features art by Catherine Ruane from Morongo Valley. The show focuses on large compositions of paper depicting themes of nature.

Art fairs are logistically complicated events in the best of times. Why the LA Art Show, Frieze Los Angeles and others say the show must go on amidst the pandemic.

On Money Among his other virtues, Albrecht Dürer was a meticulous book- keeper. His travel diaries are chock- a-block with tallies in now arcane currencies—“8 thaler” for wine, “5 white pfs” for a Lutheran tract, “20 stivers” for an elk’s foot—as well as payment in units still perfectly familiar: a St. Eustace to a servant; a Melencolia I to a secretary; an engraved Passion to a goldsmith. Dürer prints, then as now, were valued as masterpieces of art, not just markers of ...