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April 29, 2021
Impressionist advances in technique (light grounds overlaid with dabs of distinct color) and a taste for “modern” subjects (including new forms of popular entertainment) were new and shocking when first exhibited in Paris in 1874. The influence of this French school would be strongly felt by painters, especially in Paris, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The term…
Built by Argentina-born French collector and Harvard-trained scholar, Georges Bemberg, the collections ranges from Venetian portraits and view paintings to masterworks of the German and French Renaissance. Organized by the Bemberg Foundation, based at the historic Hôtel d’Assézat in Toulouse, the exhibition features over 75 works produced between about 1500 and 1800. Artists represented in the Foundation’s collection include…
Ana de Alvear (born 1962), is an artist and filmmaker from Madrid, Spain who has exhibited throughout Asia, Europe, and South America. This is her first solo exhibition in the United States. Despite seemingly traditional subject matter, the title of this exhibition invites the public to question the veracity of what they see and hear, a contemporary concern in an…
April 13, 2021
May 1, 2021–August 28, 2022 This new installation in the American art galleries comprises 11 intimate egg tempera paintings by San Diego-based artist Marianela de la Hoz. The group of works all were created in 2020 to 2021 in response to the transformative circumstances imposed by the global pandemic of COVID-19. A related installation features two self-portraits by local…
February 18, 2021
March 26–May 9, 2021 Young Art 2021 presents inspiring and thought-provoking student works of art centered around the theme of the environment and sustainability. Kindergarten through twelfth grade students expressed innovation and creativity through artwork that conveys a sustainable message or sensitivity to the environment and passion for conserving natural resources, while taking inspiration from the Museum’s collection. The Young…
October 19, 2020
Emphasizing iconic images by some of the most famous photographers from the 20th century to the present, this exhibition presents a broad sampling from the substantial holdings of local collectors Cam and Wanda Garner. This group of pictures, diverse in subject, style, photographic medium, and chronology, presents an occasion to reflect on photography’s role in history and society, and to…
August 14, 2020
September 11, 2020 – March 7, 2021 Over the summers of 2001 and 2002, Mary Ellen Mark (1940–2015) brought a team of assistants and a large-format Polaroid camera to Twinsburg, Ohio, for the annual Twins Days Festival. The resulting series of extraordinary portraits captures, in astounding detail and clarity, the fascinating physical similarity of identical twins. Just as engaging are…
August 3, 2020
In the Early Medieval era to the Renaissance and Baroque eras, a large part of the artistic production in Europe was commissioned by the Catholic Church or by wealthy aristocratic and royal patrons. Religious institutions hired artists and architects to build and decorate places of worship, from cathedrals to monasteries and hospitals. Monarchs and wealthy nobility also employed artists to…
June 1, 2020
The San Diego Museum of Art shares the extraordinary artistic accomplishment of 17th-century painters and printmakers from the Dutch Republic. Opening summer 2020, the Museum features Rembrandt and Printmaking in the Netherlands, an exhibition including approximately 20 etchings and engravings by Rembrandt. The exhibition draws from the Museum’s permanent collection, as well as loans from the important Rembrandt collection of…
March 17, 2020
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