SAN DIEGO—November is the month to explore Latin American art and culture at the San Diego Museum of Art. In conjunction with Paper Traces: Latin American Prints and Drawings from the Collection at SDMA, this fall’s free Family Festival on Sunday, November 19, will offer live entertainment and fun art projects to deepen understanding of the region’s rich traditions. A Latin American Film Festival held at the Museum of Photographic Arts will showcase the documentary Crossing Arizona on Thursday, November 16, as well as the Mexican comedy Temporada de Patos (Duck Season) on Thursday, November 30. Jazz in the Park fans can look forward to a night of hot Latin jazz performed by the Banda Brothers Latin Jazz Ensemble on Wednesday, November 1.

In conjunction with Personal Views: Regarding Private Collections in San Diego, a Collectors Panel on Thursday, November 16, will feature several prominent collectors and artists who will share their unique insights with the help of the panel’s moderator, Robert Pincus, the San Diego Union-Tribune’s fine arts critic. Anyone wishing to build their own personal art collection should check out the Artists Guild’s Fine Art Festival on Saturday, November 11, and Sunday, November 12. This annual event offers for sale one-of-a-kind artwork from 35 local artists, and includes sculptures, paintings, jewelry, and more.

Museum hours: Tuesday–Wednesday, Friday–Sunday: 10:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m.; Thursday: 10:00 a.m.–9:00 p.m.

Admission to the galleries: Adults, $10; seniors (65+) and active military, $8; students with ID, $7; youth (6–17), $4; 5 and under free. SDMA offers free admission for school groups and youth organizations with advance reservations. Call the education department at (619) 231-1996 for more information.

Gallery tours: The Museum’s docents offer free public tours of the galleries on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays at 11:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m., and on Fridays and Sundays at 1:00 and 2:00 p.m.

Water’s Café at SDMA: Open Tuesday–Friday, 11:00 a.m.–2:30 p.m., Saturday–Sunday, 11:00 a.m.–3:00 p.m. Reservations are not required. For more information, call the café at (619) 237-0675.

Opening
Paintings of South India
November 11, 2006–April 22, 2007
This display of 25 works from SDMA’s Edwin Binney 3rd Collection highlights paintings from South India, an area that has rarely been represented in previous exhibitions at SDMA. The works are primarily from the 19th century, and unlike other types of painting that were influenced by Mughal intervention, the paintings on view stay true to indigenous local styles or engage with new colonial tastes.

Continuing
Personal Views: Regarding Private Collections in San Diego
October 21, 2006–January 7, 2007
This diverse display features 25 of the most interesting private collections to be found in San Diego. A wide range of artistic practices are represented, including high-quality examples of African, Oceanic, Pre-Columbian, South Asian, Ancient Mediterranean, Old Masters, European modernism, American, and Latin American art, as well as an international selection of contemporary photography and sculpture. It includes works by such renowned artists as Rembrandt van Rijn, Claude Monet, Georgia O’Keeffe, and Hans Hofmann.

Paper Traces: Latin American Prints and Drawings from the Collection at SDMA
September 23–December 31, 2006
Organized in collaboration with the Visual Arts Department at UCSD, this special exhibition reveals the depth and breadth of the Museum’s Latin American collection, which boasts examples by major artists from all over Latin America. With approximately 60 prints and drawings of varying media and sizes, Paper Traces features works from such artists as José Clemente Orozco, Diego Rivera, Rufino Tamayo, Roberto Matta, José Luis Cuevas, and Antonio M. Frasconi. Also included are new acquisitions on view for the first time, such as Hugo Crosthwaite’s Bartholomew and Leonora Carrington’s High Priestess.

Backs
Through February 18, 2007
This unique display focuses on the backs of five paintings, where important information, such as age and ownership, is revealed. Labels, inscriptions, and markings divulge details of the painting’s history of attribution, exhibition, ownership, and sale. Both sides of the works in the exhibition are visible while explanatory labels reveal each painting’s hidden side. The works are drawn from SDMA’s European collection and range in date from the 16th through early 20th century. Included are Giorgione’s Portrait of a Man, whose back reveals a hidden drawing and inscription that attribute the work to the artist.

American Visionaries: The Collection at 8
Through January 28, 2007
In honor of its 80th Anniversary, the Museum has reinstalled its permanent collection gallery of American art to acknowledge the individuals who were most instrumental in shaping the Museum’s collections. American Visionaries presents visitor favorites and rarely seen works that celebrate five important donors who are each linked through an interest in American artists of the 20th century and the emerging modernist styles of the era. The exhibition includes 15 bronze sculptures by Arthur Putnam, oil paintings by Mary Cassatt and Emil Carlsen, watercolors by John Marin, and works by Roy Lichtenstein, Milton Avery, and Georgia O’Keeffe.

Tastes in Asian Art: Honoring the Donors
Through February 11, 2007
In celebration of SDMA’s 80th Anniversary, the current rotation of Tastes in Asian Art highlights key donors to the Museum’s Asian collection. The display presents the diverse tastes of different social groups—the imperial ruling class, scholars, warriors, and common people—and features a separate section dedicated to religious art. It includes Chinese textiles, such as a silk Qing Dynasty robe and silk shoes for bound feet, Japanese Tanto swords and daggers, and a brand new Persian art section centered around the Museum’s newly restored Persian tile painting of an animated court scene.

Tastes in Asian Art: Honoring the Donors
Through February 11, 2007
In celebration of SDMA’s 80th Anniversary, the current rotation of Tastes in Asian Art highlights key donors to the Museum’s Asian collection. The display presents the diverse tastes of different social groups—the imperial ruling class, scholars, warriors, and common people—and features a separate section dedicated to religious art. It includes Chinese textiles, such as a silk Qing Dynasty robe and silk shoes for bound feet, Japanese Tanto swords and daggers, and a brand new Persian art section centered around the Museum’s newly restored Persian tile painting of an animated court scene.

The Eye of the Collector: Modern European Paintings at SDMA
Through April 15, 2007
In honor of the Museum’s 80th Anniversary, this unique exhibition pays tribute to the generous individuals who shaped SDMA’s collection of modern European painting. Works are grouped according to their donor, focusing attention on their interests, tastes, and connoisseurship. Pieces on display include visitor favorites such as René Magritte’s The Shadows, given by Mr. and Mrs. S. Walbridge in 1976, and Joaquín Sorolla’s María at La Granja, from Mr. and Mrs. Archer M. Huntington, the very first object to enter the collection in 1925.

Closing
Transmission: The Art of Matta and Gordon Matta-Clark
Through November 12, 2006
Organized by SDMA, this exhibition represents the very first comprehensive examination of the relationship between the work of renowned Surrealist Roberto Matta and his son, urban conceptualist Gordon Matta-Clark. Transmission explores how Matta-Clark’s exposure to artistic circles of his father’s generation influenced the direction that his art would take, and how that played a role in the evolution of 1970s conceptual art. The exhibition includes sculpture, paintings and works on paper by Matta, and sculpture, photographs, and works on paper by Matta-Clark. Along with artwork, there is a section of ephemera, such as notebooks, letters, documentary photographs, manuscripts, magazines, catalogues, and films.

November Events Calendar
November 1, Wednesday
5:30 p.m. CONCERT Jazz in the Park: The Banda Brothers
Bassist Tony Banda and drummer Ramon Banda bring the fabulous Banda Brothers Latin Jazz Ensemble to the Museum for their first San Diego performance. With a deep understanding of Afro-Latin music and American jazz, and in the tradition of Dizzy Gillespie and Mario Bauza, this band burns!
$16 members/$20 nonmembers/$10 students with ID, James S. Copley Auditorium

November 2, Thursday
6:00 p.m. LECTURE “Personal Views: Regarding Private Collections in San Diego”
Cornelia Feye, SDMA’s docent manager, leads visitors through this special exhibition of private art collections in San Diego. Part of the Insight Gallery Talk Series.
Free with museum admission, meet in rotunda

7:00 p.m. LECTURE “Paper Traces: Latin American Prints and Drawings from the Collection at SDMA”
In celebration of the Mexican Day of the Dead, education staff member Begonya Perez will lead visitors through Paper Traces, the first-time exhibition of SDMA’s wide-ranging collection of Latin American prints, as well as the Day of the Dead altar created for the Museum by the Centro Cultural Tijuana. This gallery talk will be presented in Spanish. Part of the Insight Gallery Talk Series.
Free with museum admission, meet in rotunda

November 11, 2006–April 22, 2007
10:00 a.m. LECTURE “Dias de los Muertos—Days of the Dead Traditions”
Grace Johnson, curator of Latin American Collections at the Museum of Man, explores the blending of native and Catholic beliefs in the Mexican celebration of the Day of the Dead, when Mexican families celebrate a reunion with their dead relatives. Part of the Docent Guest Lecture Series.
$10, James S. Copley Auditorium

November 4, Saturday
10:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m. SPECIAL EVENT Appraisal Day
In conjunction with SDMA’s special exhibition Personal Views, museum members will have the opportunity to speak with a professional appraiser from Bonhams & Butterfields. Auction estimates will be made available for furniture, decorative arts, paintings, prints, photographs, silver, books, china, manuscripts, and collectibles. Reservations are available by calling the public programs office at (619) 696-1969. Limit 4 items per member. Size of item limited to what members can carry; photographs of large items accepted.
$25 first item/$20 each additional item/$15 photograph of item [reservations required, open to SDMA members only, to purchase a membership, please call (619) 696-1941], James S. Copley Auditorium

November 5, Sunday
3:00 p.m. LECTURE Insight Gallery Talk: “Personal Views: Regarding Private Collections in San Diego”
Derrick Cartwright, SDMA’s executive director, leads visitors through this special exhibition of private art collections in San Diego. Part of the Insight Gallery Talk Series.
Free with museum admission, meet in rotunda

November 9, Thursday
11:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. LECTURE “Matta and Matta-Clark: The Exploded Cube—From Painting into Solid Form”
Art historian and critic Martica Sawin examines the idea of space and time in the work of Matta and Matta-Clark—where the two artists converge and diverge and their significance for their respective generations. Sawin has written about modern and contemporary art for over 50 years. Known as an expert on the Surrealists, she has also written more than 100 essays on contemporary artists for exhibition catalogues and art magazines. Part of the Meet the Masters Lecture Series.
$10 members/$12 nonmembers/$10 students, James S. Copley Auditorium

November 10, Friday
7:00 p.m.–9:00 p.m. SPECIAL EVENT Fine Art Festival III Opening Night
$10 members/$20 nonmembers

November 11, Saturday
November 12, Sunday
11:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. SPECIAL EVENT Fine Art Festival III
The San Diego Museum of Art’s Artists Guild is presenting its third annual Fine Art Festival. This unique event offers for sale one-of-a-kind artwork from 35 local fine artists and features original paintings, sculpture, jewelry, photography, and more. The Museum will receive a percentage of all sales.
$5 members/$10 nonmembers, James S. Copley Auditorium

November 16, Thursday
6:00 p.m. SPECIAL EVENT Collectors Panel
In conjunction with Personal Views, Robert Pincus, art critic for the San Diego Union-Tribune, will moderate a panel of two to three collectors, artists, and/ or gallery owners. Participants will be announced soon at www.sdmart.org. Due to gallery size, seating is limited to 60.
Free with admission, Personal Views gallery

7:00 p.m. FILM Crossing Arizona (2006)
Crossing Arizona is an up-to-the-moment look at the hotly debated issues of illegal immigration and border security on the U.S./Mexico border. Through the eyes of frustrated ranchers, local activists, desperate migrants, and the highly publicized Minutemen, the movie reveals the surprising political stances people take when immigration and border policy fail everyone.$7 members/$10 nonmembers/$8 students (tickets include admission to SDMA and MoPA through the weekend following each film), Museum of Photographic Arts

November 17, Friday
10:00 a.m. LECTURE “Alfred Stieglitz and His Circle”
Joanne Berelowitz, Ph.D., professor at SDSU, focuses on the role of Alfred Stieglitz in the introduction of modern art to the United Sates, exploring his work and that of his circle, with special attention paid to artists represented in the Museum’s collection, including Georgia O’Keeffe. Part of the Docent Guest Lecture Series.
$10, James S. Copley Auditorium

November 19, Sunday
12:00 p.m.–4:00 p.m. Family Festival: “The Many Cultures of Latin America”
Explore the diverse cultures and traditions of Latin America at this fall’s free Family Festival. Enjoy live entertainment, including traditional folk dances, participate in fun art projects such as screenprinting, and tour SDMA’s special exhibition Paper Traces to learn more about this region’s rich cultures.
Free

2:00 p.m. CONCERT Old Masters of Music and Art: The Goliards
The Goliards stop by the Museum for a concert of authentic medieval music presented in a lively and entertaining style. Performed on reproductions of actual medieval instruments and sung in the various dialects and languages of the period, this concert will transport audiences to the 13th and 14th centuries.
Free with admission, Hibben Gallery

November 30, Thursday
7:00 p.m. FILM Temporada de Patos (Duck Season)(2004)
In this Mexican comedy, Flama and Moko, two well-to-do 14 year-olds, find that a power outage has killed their plans for a day filled with video games and pizza. When the pizza man and a girl next door join them, they are forced to relate to one another and begin to reveal inner turmoil about divorce, loneliness, and the confusion about relationships. In Spanish with English subtitles.
$7 members/$10 nonmembers/$8 students (tickets include admission to SDMA and MoPA through the weekend following each film), Museum of Photographic Arts

Museum Information
San Diego Museum of Art
1450 El Prado, Balboa Park
Mailing Address:
P.O. Box 122107
San Diego, CA 92112-2107
General Information: (619) 232-7931 / Facsimile: (619) 232-9367
Group Sales: (619) 696-1915
Web site: www.sdmart.org

The historic San Diego Museum of Art provides a rich and diverse cultural experience for more than 400,000 annual visitors. Located in the heart of beautiful Balboa Park, the Museum's nationally renowned collections include Spanish and Italian old masters, South Asian paintings, and 19th- and 20th-century American paintings and sculptures. In addition, the Museum regularly features major exhibitions of art from around the world, as well as an extensive year-round schedule of supporting cultural and educational programs.

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