As you may remember, I reported here that I thoroughly enjoyed the Stein Collection at the SF MOMA.  It is a fantastic show of early Picasso and Matisse and other budding artists living in and around Paris in the '20s and '30s that Gertrude made famous by convincing the world that this was where art was going, the know-it-all. The museum has huge photos of Gertrude and Alice's home with all the art hung as well as some of their furniture, so you have a feeling of what is was like being in their home-museum. Read a review: 
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/05/20/DD6K1JHR08.DTL.

Going to Seeing Gertrude Stein: Five Stories | Contemporary Jewish Museum was also a blast, a wealth of riches and entry into the most famous lesbian historical figure's life.   I had recently seen Woody Allen's  ‘Midnight in Paris,’ a Historical View - NYTimes.com, and thought that living in San Francisco and feeling like you are in Paris in the 20s was just a coincidence.  The DeYoung Museum opened Picasso: Masterpieces from the Musée National Picasso, Paris | de Young Museum, which I haven't seen yet...but intend to...one has to. 

Then, two weeks ago a guy walked in to the Weinstein art gallery in downtown SF and stole a Picasso drawing...see 37 second video here:


Read the story here: Dangerous Minds | Stolen Picasso drawing recovered by San Francisco police, an only in San Francisco story.  A private detective (Dashiell Hammett/Humphrey Bogart) who works as a bartender at Lefty O'Doul's bar (restaurant and lounge) http://www.leftyodouls.biz/ thought the bar's security camera might have him on it...since he had to walk by the bar, being located next door to the gallery.  Someone in the gallery noticed that a suspicious person wearing loafers and no socks walked out, and bingo, they found him on the video. I think this former sommelier is pleading Not Guilty...maybe due to insanity, who knows?
More on the theft:  http://gamma.dnainfo.com/20110715/upper-east-side/alleged-picasso-thief-caught-with-more-stolen-paintings-his-apartment-reports-say.   Read the above article for the recovery of the art in Napa...and more theft in NYC.  Even more:  http://www.nj.com/hobokennow/index.ssf/2011/07/mark_lugos_hoboken_apartment_s.html

The icing on the coincidental cake is this story, http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/07/19/BA7N1KBVVI.DTL&tsp=1, about a lesbian couple visiting the Seeing Gertrude Stein show being told by a security guard that they cannot hold hands in the museum and were asked to leave...at the Gertrude Stein show...in San Francisco!