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SAN DIEGO—This fall the San Diego Museum of Art is presenting the unprecedented two-city, bi-national exhibition Farsites: Urban Crisis and Domestic Symptoms in Recent Contemporary Art, which SDMA is co-presenting with the Centro Cultural Tijuana as part of inSite_05. Opening August 27, the exhibition features 50 artists who address a variety of issues and conditions affecting urban living in cities throughout North and South America.

September is also the last chance for visitors to see Maxfield Parrish, Master of Make-Believe and Wedgwood's Fairyland Lustreware from the Collection of Maurice Kawashima which closes September 11.

This month also features a dynamic musical performance by the Clayton Brothers Quintet. Audiences will enjoy this group's classic, swinging style at SDMA's September installment of Jazz in the Park (September 7). In addition, SDMA, in conjunction with Balboa Park's Houses of Sweden and Norway, is presenting a Scandinavian Film Series of three highly acclaimed films produced by the two countries (September 15, 22, 29).

For more information on the Museum's performances and lectures, call (619) 696-1966. To purchase tickets, please call Ticketmaster at (619) 220-8497. Museum members receive the discounted price for each of the events listed. Programs and artists are subject to change.

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 military, $8; students with ID, $7; children (6-17), $4; 5 and under free.

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.

SDMA offers free admission for school groups and youth organizations with advance reservations. Call the education department at (619) 231-1996 for more information.

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


EXHIBITIONS

Opening

Farsites: Urban Crisis and Domestic Symptoms in Recent Contemporary Art
August 27-November 13, 2005
In an unprecedented collaboration with the Centro Cultural Tijuana (CECUT) and inSite, the San Diego Museum of Art is co-presenting this two-city, bi-national exhibition. The exhibition is a featured component of inSite_05, which also includes public programs and digital and media projects that explore issues pertinent to the border region. Farsites features work in a range of media-painting, sculpture, photography, and video-by approximately 50 contemporary artists living primarily in the Americas, which address moments of crisis and fissure affecting everyday urban and domestic spaces. Divided between SDMA and CECUT, the works in the exhibition were created by both established and emerging artists, including Carlos Garaicoa, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Rita McBride, Doris Salcedo, Francis Alÿs, and Catherine Opie.

Devotional Arts of Nepal
September 17, 2005-April 2, 2006
In Nepal's Kathmandu valley, Buddhism and Hinduism enjoyed a peaceful coexistence for over 1500 years. A new display of nearly 40 artworks, drawn in large part from the Museum's Edwin Binney 3rd Collection, explores the fruits of this commingling of art associated with Buddhist and Hindu devotional practices. The exhibition consists of paintings, sculptures, and objects from Nepal, Tibet, and India. The Museum's upper rotunda will feature a related display of works highlighting the devotional arts of Tibet.


Continuing

Tastes in Asian Art
November 6, 2004-June, 2006
View some of the most significant works in SDMA's extensive Asian collection in this fresh thematic display in the Asian Court that highlights the diverse tastes of different social groups. Bringing back well-known works, while introducing new and rarely exhibited objects, the exhibition highlights 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. A recent re-installation of approximately 45 new pieces has added a selection of arts from the Islamic world, a newly restored bodhisattva head from Pakistan dating to the 1st century, and 20th-century Japanese prints.


Closing

Line and Color in European Painting
October 23, 2004-September 4, 2005
The current installation of the Museum's collection of 19th through early 20th-century European art explores the two predominant approaches to pictorial representation that guided, and often divided, artists throughout the century: one that focused on color and another that relied upon line. The exhibition surveys the major European trends of the era including academic art, Romanticism, Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Cubism, and German Expressionism.

Maxfield Parrish, Master of Make-Believe
July 16-September 11, 2005
More than 80 works of superlative design and beauty by Maxfield Parrish (1870-1966) are presented in this comprehensive survey of the master illustrator's career. The exhibition features many of Parrish's most recognizable art works, including his popular calendar and book illustrations, his signature classicized paintings, and the 18-foot long mural he painted for the Long Island studio of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney. Maxfield Parrish, Master of Make-Believe also explores Parrish's artistic development and his working methods, with the aid of documentary photographs, demonstrating why he is counted among the best-known and most beloved American artists of the 20th century.

Wedgwood's Fairyland Lustreware from the Collection of Maurice Kawashima
July 16-September 11, 2005
In conjunction with Maxfield Parrish, Master of Make-Believe, SDMA is presenting 27 pieces of Fairyland Lustreware, featuring fanciful patterns inhabited with fairies and sprites, goblins, and dragons. The pieces were all produced at the Wedgwood manufactory in Etruria, England, in the decade after World War I and reveal the genius of Fairyland designer Daisy Makeig-Jones. The dazzling jewel-like colors are enriched with the addition of metals-such as copper-to the glazes, yielding the fantastical sheen that is characteristic of lusterware.


September Events Calendar

September 1, Thursday
8:00 p.m. FILM Screen on the Green: Big Fish (2003, PG-13)
In Tim Burton's beautifully filmed Big Fish, a wonderful storyteller named Edward Bloom recounts tall tales of his wild and worldly adventures to his skeptical son. His mythic exploits dart from the delightful to the delirious as he weaves epic tales about giants, a witch, and conjoined-twin lounge sisters.
Free, east lawn

September 7, Wednesday
5:30 p.m. CONCERT Jazz in the Park: The Clayton Brothers Quintet
The charismatic bassist John Clayton and his brother, stellar alto saxophonist Jeff Clayton, travel down from L.A. to make a rare San Diego appearance with their quintet. Featuring trumpeter Terrell Stafford and young pianist Gerald Clayton, this in-demand group tours the world performing their unique style of classic, swinging jazz.
$14 members/$17 nonmembers/$14 for students with ID

September 8, Thursday
6:00 p.m. GALLERY TALK "Tastes in Asian Art"
Sonya Quintanilla, curator of Asian art, explores the current thematic installation of the Museum's Asian art collection. Part of the Insight Gallery Talk Series.
Free with admission, meet in rotunda

September 11, Sunday
2:00 p.m. GALLERY TALK "Tastes in Asian Art"
See description for September 8.
Free with admission, meet in rotunda

3:00 p.m. LECTURE "Tutankhamen Resurrected"
In preparation for a bus tour to visit Tutankhamen and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art on September 17, SDMA's African Arts Committee is hosting a lecture entitled "Tutankhamen Resurrected" by Egyptologist and professor of history at Mesa College, Arelene Wolinski.
Free, James S. Copley Auditorium

September 15, Thursday
7:00 p.m. FILM Scandinavian Film Series: The Emigrants (1971, PG)
This landmark epic Swedish film recounts the dramatic and resourceful Swedish immigration to America in the 19th century. Starring Max Von Sydow and Liv Ullman, The Emigrants was the winner of the New York Film Critics Award for Best Actress and was nominated for several Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Actress, and Best Director.
$6 SDMA and House of Sweden & Norway members/$8 nonmembers, James S. Copley Auditorium

September 22, Thursday
7:00 p.m. FILM Scandinavian Film Series: Pelle the Conqueror (1987, PG-13)
Max Von Sydow gives a stirring performance in this Academy Award-winning film (Best Foreign Film) as an immigrant father with an enduring dream of conquering the world. Realizing his failure, he instills the dream in his son. Together, they seek a better life in the new land, but are confronted with poverty and prejudice.
$6 SDMA and House of Sweden & Norway memebers/$8 nonmembers, James S. Copley Auditorium

September 25, Sunday
2:00 p.m. CONCERT Old Masters of Music and Art: Fred Benedetti
Enjoy music from Europe's Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque periods surrounded by the Museum's fine collection of Old Master paintings. Acclaimed virtuoso of classical guitar, Fred Benedetti performs favorite selections from different eras.
Free with admission, Hibben Gallery

September 29, Thursday
7:00 p.m. FILM Scandinavian Film Festival: Elling (2001, R)
After two years in a Norwegian psychiatric hospital, Elling and Kjell are released into the city of Oslo to begin life on their own. Facing the challenges of the real world, the middle-aged, mentally challenged roommates discover they can not only survive on the outside, they can thrive.
$6 SDMA and House of Sweden & Norway SDMA/$8 nonmembers, James S. Copley Auditorium

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