Artist Vicki Walsh displayed her latest pieces, a series of 20 Haloed Heads, on display for a day at “Tomaytoland,” the home of Robin Lipman, member chair of the San Diego Museum of Art’s Contemporary Art Committee.
La Jolla artist Joyce Cutler-Shaw is showing an impressive selection of her slide-out, large-format and “tunnel” books at La Jolla’s Athenaeum Music & Arts Library in “What Comes to Mind: Nature-Human Nature and Visual Translation.” More than 100 art-lovers gathered to admire her work at the exhibit opening.
On Thursday, Jan. 31 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (MCASD) will offer free admission in honor of David Copley, the organization’s late board president and a long-time benefactor whose birthday falls on that day.
MCASD invites the public to both of its locations — 700 Prospect St. in La Jolla and 1100 and 1001 Kettner Blvd. downtown — as a way to honor Copley’s vision of making art accessible to everyone.
The exhibit, “The Kazoo: More than just an annoying party favor,” showcases its African and African-American roots, plots its place in Americana, reveals its role in the early jazz age, catalogs its classical repertoire, and peeks at its popular music successes, now through Jan. 30 at Geisel Library at UC San Diego.
Art history lecturer Linda Blair will return to the Athenaeum Music & Arts Library with a new five-part Tuesday evening series, “Impressionism Plus Two,” at 1008 Wall St. The lectures will explore the historic context, personalities, theories and techniques of Impressionism, beginning at 7:30 p.m. Jan. 22, Jan. 29, Feb. 5, Feb. 19 and Feb. 26. (No lecture Feb. 12.)
The opening of “Capturing the Wonder of Women,” a multi-media exhibit reflecting the diversity of women’s experiences, drew hundreds of visitors to the Women’s Museum of California Dec. 7. The WMC is one of only five women’s museums in the country.
It would be difficult to talk about Mexican photography without mentioning Manuel Álvarez Bravo (1902-2002), whose long life included some 60 years of creating compelling images of ordinary people and places in the country of his birth. He managed to capture the realities of everyday life in post-revolutionary Mexico in a way that was both poetic and unsentimental.
Anseth Richards, a La Jolla High School graduate and longtime Bird Rock resident, opened a promising art gallery on Nov. 28 at 5648 La Jolla Blvd., just a few doors down from Beaumont’s Eatery.
By Pat Sherman More than 50 people gathered at the Athenaeum Music and Arts Library Nov. 28 to learn about three free lectures that will be offered next spring when this year’s Kyoto Prize recipients visit San Diego. One lecture will be offered at each of the following institutions: University of California San Diego, University [...]
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego in La Jolla celebrates the opening of a three-museum exhibition, “Behold, America!” — a grand collaboration with American works from the collections of MCASD, San Diego Museum of Art, and Timken Museum.
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