January 22–July 17, 2022 Mariano Fortuny y Marsal (1838–1874) was born in the Catalan city of Reus. During a prolific but brief career—cut short by malaria—he became the most internationally acclaimed Spanish artist thanks in part due to his extensive travel and the popularity of his prints. His oil paintings and watercolors were a source of inspiration to later artists…

  These galleries display a selection of works from the Museum’s collection of art from the Americas post 1900 across themes exploring social awareness, identities, and spirituality. The current installation takes a thematic rather than a chronological approach, presenting dialogues across time and place. Embracing the diversity that is both local and throughout the Americas, these works underscore the ability…

Featuring arts of the book from South Asia and the Persianate world, produced from the 12th through the 19th centuries, Pearls from the Ocean of Contentment explores new ways of presenting the Museum’s world-renowned Edwin Binney 3rd Collection of paintings, drawings, calligraphies, and manuscripts from South Asia, Iran, and Central Asia by focusing on the regional contours and geographies of…

August 7, 2021–January 30, 2022   Disestablishment overturns the traditional and expected museum experience. Local San Diego artist John Raymond Mireles shares photographs of remote and staggeringly beautiful sites that have recently had their US National Monument status revoked, opening the sites for mining and drilling, and invites the public to take part in destroying images of these landscapes. In…

  Highlighting important works of art from the Museum’s collection depicting scenery from California beaches, mountains, and deserts, as well as local artists’ depictions of other locations, Of Sea and Sand: California Paintings invites viewers to consider the beautiful views that surround us. These California paintings, featuring loose brushwork and attention to changing light, convey a moment in time while…

The Dogon peoples live primarily in the Bandiagara escarpment of Mali, alongside lofty cliffs stretching 125 miles parallel to the Niger River. Migrating to this area around the fifteenth century for protection against potential invasions, the Dogon have maintained their heritage, religious traditions, and diverse languages over time. Yet Dogon culture also embodies the syncretism of coexistence with and conversion…

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…

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…