Discover, explore, engage...
Museum visitors can further explore the wide world of art in its many forms through an
exciting diversity of music and dance performances, thought-provoking films, stimulating
lectures and gallery talks, and a full-slate of art classes for children and adults.
Browse the weekly events calendar below or the links to the left to find out what's coming up.
Week of: 5.11.2008
Exhibitions
Inside the Wave: Six San Diego/Tijuana Artists Construct Social Art
March 8-June 22, 2008
Inside the Wave features six artists from the San Diego/Tijuana region working within alternative cultures to produce thought-provoking works that engage issues of everyday life and materialism. Their works, which include sculptures made of found industrial objects, photographs, documentary videos, and interactive digital media, present the temporary and contingent states of objects, actions, and ideas.
Tell a friendRhythms of India: The Art of Nandalal Bose (1882-1966)
February 23-May 18, 2008
Through an unprecedented collaboration with the government of India, the San Diego Museum of Art has organized the first comprehensive traveling exhibition in the West to survey the expansive repertoire of Nandalal Bose (1882-1966), often known as the father of modern art in India. This significant display features approximately 100 of Bose's finest paintings from the National Gallery of Modern Art in New Delhi, which are executed in a variety of styles and media.
Tell a friendGuided Tour of the Collections led by a museum docent.
Available at 10:00 a.m., 11:00 a.m., 1:00 p.m., and 2:00 p.m. on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays; and at 1:00 p.m. and 2:00 p.m. on Fridays and Sundays.
Free with admission.
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May 13, Tuesday
Film
Indian Film Festival: Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne (The Adventures of Goopy and Bagha) (1968, NR)
7:00 p.m.
MoPA's Joan and Irwin Jacobs Theater
Hailed as one of Ray's greatest films, Goopy wants to sing and Bagha would love to play the dhol (drum). They meet accidentally and are helped by the King of Ghosts. With newly endowed abilities, they land in the Kingdom of Shundi where their adventure begins.
SDMA and the Museum of Photographic Arts (MoPA) present a film festival in conjunction with Rhythms of India: The Art of Nandalal Bose at SDMA and Humanitas: Images of India by Fredric Roberts at MoPA. The Film Festival is curated by KPBS film critic Beth Accomando.
$7 members/$10 members/$8 students (includes admission to both museums through June 1)
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May 18, Sunday
Concert
Old Masters of Music and Art: Courtly Noyse
2:00 p.m.
Back by popular demand, Courtly Noyse presents an hour-long program of Renaissance and Medieval music using their voices and nearly 40 reproductions of period instruments.
Free with admission
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