Through the display of more than 100 sculptures, prints, postcards, photographs, paintings, textiles, and video installations by artists from Africa, Europe, America, and the Caribbean, Black Womanhood: Images, Icons, and Ideologies of the African Body provides an in-depth look at how images of the black female body have been created and used differently in Africa and the West. The exhibition…

Richard Avedon: Portraits of Power traces Avedon’s interest in and fascination with American politics through 200 portraits created from the 1950s until the photographer’s death in 2004. Organized by the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., with the cooperation of the Richard Avedon Foundation, New York, and the Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, Richard Avedon: Portraits of Power contains many rarely…

For the first time, jewelry created by the great American sculptor Alexander Calder is the subject of a comprehensive exhibition entitled Calder Jewelry. Calder Jewelrybrings together approximately 90 works by the famed modernist  – including necklaces, bracelets, brooches, earrings, and tiaras – that demonstrate the artist’s love of abstraction and his unique mastery of this wearable art form.  The works…

Previous Exhibition American Artists from the Russian Empire features nearly 70 paintings and sculptures by many of the best-known artists working in America in the postwar period, among them Louise Nevelson, Jules Olitsky, Mark Rothko, and Ben Shahn. The exhibit  presents a fascinating foray into the work of artists of Russian descent and training who left the Russian Empire before…

Making the connection between Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró and Alexander Calder. “Seeing a San Diego Museum of Art room filled with Joan Miros reminded me of Radiohead’s experimental journeys through the subconscious. But livelier.” – Kelli Dailey, San Diego Tribune This exhibition showcases nearly 50 works by three of the greatest twentieth-century artists. The selections come from The San Diego…

Curated by George Ellis, director emeritus of the Honolulu Academy of Arts, Oceanic Art: A Celebration of Form features 97 three-dimensional works, primarily from Melanesia and Polynesia, and objects from Micronesia and Taiwan. Works on view come from three major California collections: the renowned personal collections of Valerie Franklin and Edward and Mina Smith,, as well as the extensive holdings…

Photographs by Hugo Brehme from the Colburn Collection Many foreign artists traveled to Mexico to glean inspiration from the culture and landscapes of the country. A German-born photographer, Brehme contributed immensely to the development of modern photography in Mexico. Like all foreign artists who traveled to the country, Brehme saw the culture and the landscape from a removed vantage point….

The groundbreaking exhibition Joaquín Torres-García: Constructing Abstraction with Wood explores the work of one of the most influential artists to have emerged from Latin America. A charismatic figure in the early twentieth-century international art scene, Torres-García exhibited with the most famous artists of his time, including Antonio Gaudí and Pablo Picasso in Spain; Piet Mondrian and Theo van Doesburg in…

Born in Tijuana, Mexico, in 1971, Hugo Crosthwaite spent his formative years in Rosarito, Mexico, and earned a degree from San Diego State University. Now based in New York City, Crosthwaite creates large-scale graphite and charcoal drawings that are quickly gaining international attention. The San Diego Museum of Art presents a solo exhibition of Crosthwaite’s works with an emphasis on…

Photographs from the Colburn Collection In the Age of Revolution presents photography of Mexico created by foreign photographers both before and after the time of the Mexican Revolution. The Mexican Revolution resulted in tremendous loss of life and brought great destruction to the communities throughout the country. While the time frame of the Revolution is traditionally conceived as 1910–1920, in…