Arts & Culture

Written on the Dock of the Bay is your weekly guide to literary and bookish happenings in the pleasantly literary and bookish Bay Area.

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All week long we've been playing this sound, and asking you to guess what exactly it is and where exactly in the Bay Area we recorded it.

The new Peninsula Museum of Art in Burlingame is not like most museums. They’re usually started by major collectors, and most of those collectors are men, who – as Ruth Waters puts it – “need a place to put their stuff, and want to share it with the community. We didn’t start that way.”