Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Chadd Scott covers the intersection of art and travel. One person can’t make an art scene, but one person can bring it together.

After a long, rainy summer, the Bay Area art scene is beginning to thaw out, with galleries returning from summer vacation and museums kicking off the fall. The country seems to be spiraling ever ...

Two dozen people lie on the floor of San Francisco’s Grace Cathedral gazing into a cone of light shining down from a hundred feet above. They look up into radiance: shifting beams and curtains of blue ...