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March 2023
An event every week that begins at 10:00 am on Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday, repeating until May 1, 2023
Caught on Camera
San Diego, CA 92101 United States + Google Map
Slinking through your neighborhood. Darting across the highway. Fluttering along your favorite hiking trail. Wildlife is all around, even when we don’t see it. The Nat offers visitors a rare peek into the secret lives of wild animals in its newest exhibition. Caught on Camera: Wildlife When No One’s Watching opens November 18, 2022, in the Museum’s top- floor photography gallery. The show features remarkable images of southern California wildlife “caught” on film with the help of camera traps set…
An event every week that begins at 10:00 am on Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday, repeating until November 12, 2023
Carlo Miranda: In Search of Sonder
Local artist Carlo Miranda (Filipino-American, b. 1988) showcases ten recent paintings in this intimate exhibition. Miranda’s works were first exhibited in this museum in 2020 as part of a display responding to the pandemic. Working as a registered nurse in San Diego during this time had a profound impact on his use of painting as a way to channel psychological introspection, anxiety, and empathy. Miranda clarifies: “In my experience as an RN, I have developed a greater understanding of the…
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An event every week that begins at 10:00 am on Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday, repeating until November 7, 2023
Modern Women
Modern Women celebrates the arrival of twenty works of art to the Museum on indefinite loan from a private collection. Historically marginalized in the art world, many of these artists’ careers, such as those of key Abstract Expressionists Lee Krasner and Elaine de Kooning, were eclipsed by their husbands, Jackson Pollock and William de Kooning, as well as Sonia Delaunay and Françoise Gilot, whose careers were also overshadowed by the successes of their husbands, Robert Delaunay and Pablo Picasso. Yet the…
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An event every week that begins at 10:00 am on Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday, repeating until December 31, 2023
The Animation Academy: From Pencils to Pixels
You’ll love learning more about the magical world of animation through The Animation Academy: From Pencils to Pixels. The many interactive stations in this exhibition provide opportunities for visitors to create and experiment. Explore animation and storytelling, from traditional hand-drawn cels to exciting breakthroughs in stop-motion and CGI.
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An event every week that begins at 10:00 am on Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday, repeating until December 31, 2023
Flashback
Celebrate 50 years of exploration at the Fleet with Flashback. See how the Fleet’s history aligns with the history in our San Diego community and in the world as you journey through the 1970s–2010s. As you go through the different rooms, every decade is a true experience of the time. Flashback will be open every day and is included in the price of admission. This experience lets you build a catenary arch among 1970s retro orange carpet and your mom’s Tupperware. Create…
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An event every week that begins at 10:00 am on Sunday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday, repeating until June 4, 2023
Reconsidering Rembrandt: Night Watching
The Night Watching is a monumental, three-channel video installation, created by the renowned Dutch artist Rineke Dijkstra. Night Watching features 14 diverse audiences contemplating Rembrandt van Rijn’s most iconic work, The Night Watch (1642). Each community engages in its own conversation, which range from close visual descriptions to speculations about the circumstances surrounding the creation of this masterpiece. Dijkstra's video is sequenced to explore the multiple ways in which viewers relate to a great painting and its subject. Night Watching was commissioned by the Rijksmuseum where it debuted…
Friends of Sumi-E 20th Annual Art Exhibition
THE YEAR OF THE RABBIT ART EXHIBITION Our Friends of Sumi-e's 20th Annual Art Exhibition (formerly for the Taka Sumi-e Society) and sale of contemporary Japanese brush paintings by local artists studying sumi-e and other Japanese painting techniques is again being presented live in Balboa Park. We celebrate the Year of the Rabbit with Sumi-e painting demonstrations, live Japanese Shakuhachi flute and Koto music performances, a textile exhibit and Tea Ceremony.
An event every week that begins at 11:00 am on Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday, repeating until June 30, 2023
Transcontinental Railroads
Now introducing our spring exhibit: Transcontinental Railroads, opening January 4th, 2023! The First Transcontinental Railroad opened the western part of America, allowing people to cross the nation in less than a week. This exhibit covers the legislation that was needed to approve the construction, as well as the two companies responsible for building the 1,776-mile railroad. Finally, it discusses the impact of the railroad, both positive and negative. This exhibit will run January – June, 2023
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An event every week that begins at 12:00 pm on Sunday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday, repeating until August 20, 2023
De La Torre Brothers, Post-Columbian Futurism
In Post-Columbian Futurism, one of their largest and most ambitious projects to date, brothers Jamex and Einar De La Torre (b.1960 & 1963, Guadalajara; live and work in San Diego/Baja California) transform the ICA’s Central campus into the site of an epic battle for the future of humankind. Through a fusion of Mexican, American, and Indigenous cultural iconographies, the De La Torre brothers engage with our seasonal theme “Limitless Growth, Limited World,” by relaying a cautionary tale about the dangers of…
An event every week that begins at 12:00 pm on Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday, repeating until May 13, 2023
Walking In Beauty – Indigenous Resilience
We are dedicated to Indigenous kinship, culture and preserving the ancestral heritage of Indigenous communities through advocacy for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women & Relatives. Centro Cultural de la Raza 2004 Park Blvd San Diego on Occupied Kumeyaay Ancestral Homelands. This event is a celebration of Indigenous culture, art, and tradition, and it also serves as a platform to raise awareness about the ongoing crisis of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls and fundraise for our MMIW/R RED TIPI…
An event every week that begins at 12:00 pm on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday, repeating until May 15, 2023
An event every week that begins at 12:00 pm on Sunday, repeating until May 15, 2023
Young Art 2023
Young Art 2023: Comfort and Calm presents thoughtful works of art that use visual storytelling to share students’ experiences with finding, receiving, or offering comfort and calm. Youth artists throughout the San Diego and Tijuana regions were encouraged to express interpretations of the theme, including contrasting ideas of discomfort and discord. Kindergarten through twelfth grade students responded with works in a wide variety of media depicting people, objects, interiors, and nature. For over ninety years, The San Diego Museum of Art has…
An event every week that begins at 10:00 am on Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday, repeating until May 1, 2023
Caught on Camera
San Diego, CA 92101 United States + Google Map
Slinking through your neighborhood. Darting across the highway. Fluttering along your favorite hiking trail. Wildlife is all around, even when we don’t see it. The Nat offers visitors a rare peek into the secret lives of wild animals in its newest exhibition. Caught on Camera: Wildlife When No One’s Watching opens November 18, 2022, in the Museum’s top- floor photography gallery. The show features remarkable images of southern California wildlife “caught” on film with the help of camera traps set…