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Arts Medallion recipients Dede Wilsey and Willie Brown at the Spring 09 SF Museum of Performance and Design awards lunch

Photo by Catherine Bigelow

UPDATE: Another resignation has been tendered to the beleaguered SF Arts Commission by René Bihan, a Managing Principal Architect with SWA Group, a local design firm in San Francisco.

Bihan has served as a volunteer Arts Commissioner since April 2008. His resignation is based upon various business-related reasons and was not spurred on by the below-discussed Daly Debacle.

Fine Arts Museums Board President Dede Wilsey and Fine Arts Museums Director John Buchanan

Photo by Catherine Bigelow

When dynamo Dede Wilsey goes shopping, she doesn’t fool around.

In February, the Fine Arts Museums Board Director traveled to Paris with Fine Arts Museums Director John Buchanan and his wife, Lucy Buchanan, to attend the sale of tres cher objets from the private collection of the late designer Yves Saint Laurent.

Wendy Paskin Jordan (left) with her husband, former Mayor Frank Jordan and holiday hostess Dede Wilsey

Photo by Catherine Bigelow

The alpha and the omega of the Swell set’s holiday hootenanny typically kicks-off in early December at the shindig hosted by dynamo Dede Wilsey and concludes with the birthday blowout of philanthropist-composer Gordon Getty.