Contemporary Art Museum in La Jolla offers contest for young artists
The contest invites young artists to submit an original piece for the chance to win $500 in art supplies and have their work displayed at the museum’s downtown location.
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New Athenaeum book celebrates 20 years, 40 artists
La Jolla’s oldest cultural institution, the Athenaeum Music & Arts Library, had its modest beginnings in the 1890s, when six local women formed a Reading Club, which became a membership library after the generous donation of a corner cottage, land, books, and piano from a frequent visitor to La Jolla. The first president of the Library Association was Ellen Browning Scripps.
New Athenaeum book celebrates 20 years, 40 artists of La Jolla’s Music & Arts Library
La Jolla’s oldest cultural institution, the Athenaeum Music & Arts Library, held a preview event for its new book, ‘Selections from the Permanent Collection — 1990-2010,’ to highlight the Athenaeum’s first 20 years.
Mar 13, 2013 | Posted in A & E,Art,Art Galleries & Institutions,Books,La Jolla Life,Life,Philanthropy,Social Photo Galleries | Read More »
Artists and poets celebrate love at La Jolla Art Association soiree for ‘La Vie En Rose’ exhibit
In honor of the concept of “love” and dedicated to lovers everywhere, La Jolla Art Association presented a special art show titled, “La Vie En Rose” at its gallery in La Jolla Shores.
[Exclusive VIDEO] Disney’s ‘Wreck-It Ralph’ and ‘The Simpsons’ Director Rich Moore draws crowds to Spike & Mike’s Festival of Animation in La Jolla
Sold-out audiences of nearly 500 people at each screening filled the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego’s Sherwood Auditorium in La Jolla for the 30th anniversary of Spike & Mike’s Festival of Animation during the weekend of March 1-2, 2013 in which Rich Moore was the special guest. Moore is the director of Disney’s Oscar-nominated animated film, “Wreck-It Ralph.” He has also directed many popular episodes of “The Simpsons” and “Futurama” during the first few seasons of those shows.
Mar 12, 2013 | Posted in A & E,Art,Art Galleries & Institutions,Best Bets,Community,Events,Events,Featured Story,Film,La Jolla,La Jolla Life,Life,News,Uncategorized,Video,Visitors | Read More »
‘Lifelike’ exhibit re-imagines reality at Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego in La Jolla
If you are a fan of pop art, photorealism, and all their concomitants, you won’t want to miss “Lifelike,” an engaging array of delightful, disturbing, meticulous re-creations of everyday things now on view at Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego in La Jolla.
Mar 12, 2013 | Posted in A & E,Art,Art Galleries & Institutions,Events,La Jolla Life,Life,Social Photo Galleries | Read More »
The La Jolla Library Art Gallery presents a new exhibition, FACES, with 30 works by 27 area artists; reception 2-4 p.m. March 17
“FACES,” a juried art exhibition, is on view at the La Jolla Library/Riford Branch of the San Diego Public Library, March 16-May 17.
Art meets engineering in new exhibitions at UCSD
An engineering building may seem an odd venue for art exhibitions, until you realize that UC San Diego’s Structural and Materials Engineering Building (SME) is affectionately called “Bauhaus West.”
Mar 8, 2013 | Posted in Art | Read More »
Vicki Walsh pop-up art ‘heads’ above all others at La Jolla exhibit
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.
Feb 27, 2013 | Posted in Art,Art Galleries & Institutions,La Jolla Life,Life,Social Photo Galleries | Read More »
Mingei Museum exhibits folk art of Bill Traylor
A traveling exhibition of the work of Southern folk artist Bill Traylor is at Mingei International Museum in Balboa Park through May 12. “Bill Traylor: Drawings from the Collections of the High Museum of Art and the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts,” contains more than 60 of Traylor’s drawings, including human and animal figures in depictions of his memories of plantation life and in the urban landscape in Alabama.
Feb 15, 2013 | Posted in Art | Read More »
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