Ilse and Lloyd Ruocco’s Design Center, located in the Hillcrest neighborhood of San Diego, was a foundation for the modern design community of the 1950s, ‘60s, and ‘70s. Inside the Design Center brings to life a vignette of mid-twentieth century interior, lighting, and furniture design, featuring pieces by significant California designers, manufacturers, and craftspeople as selected by ...

The Timken Museum of Art unveils Poetic Portraits: Allegory and Identity in Sixteenth-Century Europe, a landmark exhibition exploring the rich interplay of art, literature, and identity during the Renaissance. On view from November 3, 2025, through March 29, 2026, this exhibition brings together more than a dozen exceptional images that trace the impact of sixteenth-century art on ideas ...

Opening this fall, colorful quilts made from stitched feed sacks highlight the resourcefulness of early mid-twentieth century makers. In the 1930s and ‘40s, people affected by the Great Depression repurposed feed sacks—cotton bags used to package bulk dry goods—to make domestic items like quilts and clothes. Commercial manufacturers began printing feed sacks with vibrant patterns ...

On February 28, 1926, the Fine Arts Gallery—now The San Diego Museum of Art—opened its doors to three-thousand visitors eager to experience the refined “plateresque” architecture of its façade and the burgeoning collection of San Diego’s first art museum. Over the next hundred years, millions of guests, thousands of artists and volunteers, hundreds of donors ...

Curated from Mingei International Museum’s Permanent Collection, this Entry Level exhibition explores the global significance of grains as a source of sustenance and an inspiration to human creativity. Grains such as corn, wheat, rice, quinoa, and oats are dietary staples around the world, their common presence forming important roles across communities and the cultures built ...

Arguably Latin America’s best-known living photographer, Graciela Iturbide (Mexican, b. 1942) has spent five decades bringing a singular poetic eye to images of her native Mexico and abroad. This exhibition surveys her most iconic photographs, primarily captured in Mexico, but also worldwide, in locations including Italy, India, Panama, and the United States.  For Iturbide, photography ...

Ruben Ulises Rodríguez Montoya (b. 1989, Parral, Chihuahua, MX) is a multidisciplinary artist and myth-maker whose work centers around anthologies and social issues concerning border culture, abjection, adaptation, and mestizaje. Aided by speculative fiction, cultural mythologies, science fiction, and the labor of his family, his work hybridizes and creates parallels between the land, the human, ...

To Catch a Fish presents over sixty works of craft and art that are either used in fishing or that illuminate the relationship between people and fish. Utilitarian fishing objects include hand-crafted basketry fish traps, scrapers, weights, and nets. Works with spiritual significance and symbolism include amulets, robes, images of saints, and even kites. This ...