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Culture & Cocktails

The DJ spins, exotic beverages flow, artworks dazzle, and museum visitors glow at The San Diego Museum of Art's popular sundown series, Culture & Cocktails. Bring a friend, meet someone new, and experience art in a whole new way.

Culture & Cocktails are free for Supporting Museum members and above, or $15 for nonmembers.  Pre-sale tickets are available until noon the day of the event, after that time they will be available at the door, as will Museum memberships.

For event information, email culture@sdmart.org.

Upcoming Culture & Cocktails events:

  • C&C featuring Piranesi, Rome, and the Arts of Design, May 30, 2013

  • If you like Culture & Cocktails, check out Flowers After Hours on April 26, 2013

See pictures from past Culture & Cocktails Events:

  • C&C featuring Behold, America!, January 31, 2013
  • C&C featuring The Human Beast, October 4, 2012
  • C&C featuring Summer 2012 Exhibitions, June 21, 2012
  • C&C featuring Echoes of the Past & Dyeing Elegance, February 23, 2012
  • C&C featuring Mexican Modern Painting, October 20, 2011
  • C&C featuring From El Greco to Dalí, July 21, 2011
  • C&C featuring Thomas Gainsborough and Howard Hodgkin, February 17, 2011
  • C&C featuring Dreams & Diversions, November 18, 2010
  • C&C featuring Toulouse-Lautrec's Paris, September 30, 2010
  • C&C featuring Heroes: Mortals & Myths in Ancient Greece, June 17, 2010
  • C&C Special Edition: Flowers After Hours, Art Alive 2010
  • C&C featuring Joaquín Torres-García and Hugo Crosthwaite, Feb 2010
  • C&C featuring Alexander Calder
  • C&C featuring American Artists from the Russian Empire
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Upcoming Events

Culture & Cocktails: Piranesi
Thursday, May 30, 6:00 pm - 10:00 pm

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