Noah Doely produces places in his work. His environments urge the viewer to reconsider their own place within history and their relationship to the subject matter. By choosing caves as a source of inspiration for this new body of photographs entitled, Above & Below, Doely reinforces the notion of universalism as these photographs remain distanced from a particular culture or…

Muxima Alfredo Jaar’s Muxima (2005) brings together diverse ideas and significant cultural traditions as envisioned by one of the most important contemporary artists working today. A popular Angolan folksong served as the source of inspiration for this work. Jaar, born in Chile, describes the work as a cinematic elegy to the people of Angola and his film was inspired by…

The story of Sorolla and America begins in 1893, with Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida‘s prize-winning submission to the World’s Columbian Exhibition in Chicago. On the heels of this success, and a triumph at the Paris Universal Exhibition in 1900, Sorolla would be invited by the philanthropist and collector Archer Milton Huntington to show his work at the Hispanic Society in…

Robert Henri and the Spirit of Spain Spanish Sojourns: Robert Henri and the Spirit of Spain is the first museum exhibition dedicated to the Spanish paintings of Robert Henri (1865-1929), one of the most influential American artists of the early twentieth century. Henri traveled to Spain seven times between 1900 and 1926, more than any other foreign destination, and produced…

Gauguin to Warhol: 20th Century Icons from the Albright-Knox Art Gallery traces the path of Modern art through a survey of iconic 20th century works from the Albright-Knox Art Gallery‘s renowned collection. This exhibition presents a stunning opportunity to witness the development of the major movements that shaped the course of modern art from the late 19th century to the…

In celebration of the return of Ramesses II to the Museum after an extended loan, Out of Egypt will spotlight this important portrait of Egypt’s most powerful pharaoh by placing it within its broader historic and artistic contexts. This finely carved quartzite sculpture was purchased by the Museum in 1949 and was displayed here for four decades before being loaned…

Among the highlights of the 2013 Venice Biennale was a selection of recent works by Ron Nagle, whose small-scale ceramic sculptures are featured in this exhibition organized by The San Diego Museum of Art. Ron Nagle: Peripheral Cognition, the artist’s first major solo museum exhibition, spans a period of more than 30 years, and includes never-before-seen work and preparatory drawings…

This selection of highlights from The San Diego Museum of Art’s Permanent Collection reveals a gradual movement away from European traditions in painting toward the formulation of a uniquely American art, redefining man’s relationship to his surroundings. Beginning with 19th century landscapes depicting the country’s vast untamed wilderness in which nature is all powerful and the vulnerability of the human…

Visualizing Music Among the many art education initiatives at The San Diego Museum of Art, no program has as long a history as Young Art. In its 85th year, the Museum’s biennial student art exhibition takes inspiration from The Art of Music (Fall 2015), the final of the Museum’s 2015 exhibitions. Included in this larger program, Young Art 2015: Visualizing Music…

Printmaking, Mythology, and the Birth of the Baroque Organized by The San Diego Museum of Art, Divine Desire: Printmaking, Mythology, and the Birth of the Baroque showcases engravings produced in the later sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries in northern Europe and Italy. These sophisticated works of art, produced by the leading artists of the period, are assembled primarily from The…