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The Kimbell Art Museum provides a perfect space for viewing fine art

Fort Worth’s Kimbell Art Museum houses a small but impressive permanent collection ranging from antiquity to modern times. The Kimbell consistently hosts excellent special exhibitions featuring some of history’s greatest artists, including Picasso, Gaugin and Murillo, to name drop a few from recent seasons. The museum also occasionally hosts major traveling exhibitions.

The Kimbell Art Museum itself is also a work of art. Designed by Louis Kahn and opened in 1972, the building is world-renowned for Kahn’s use of natural light to illuminate the artwork. As a result of the museum outgrowing this oft-describe “perfect space,” an annex designed by Renzo Piano is scheduled to open in 2013.

3. Get Social at the San Francisco Social 12/18/09

Celebrate with a good-looking crowd for a good cause at the 2009 San Francisco Social event at the luxurious Fairmont Hotel. The San Francisco Social benefits the city’s largest public arts institution, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. The fourth annual event hosts hors d’oeuvres, top shelf open bar, famed DJ Chris Harnett, and an afterparty.

If this year’s event is like any of the previous, it will be filled with hot, young San Francisco socialites coming together over a little bubbly for a good cause.