Tag: Santa Barbara Museum of Art

Feb. 25 — Santa Barbara Museum of Art to present ‘A Morning with Janna Ireland’

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Janna Ireland lives in Los Angeles, where she is an assistant professor in the Department of Art and Art History at Occidental College. A broad selection of Ireland’s work was included in the exhibition Family Album: Dannielle Bowman, Janna Ireland and Contemporary Works from LACMA at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s Charles White Elementary School Gallery. Ireland’s photographs are held in the permanent collections of institutions including LACMA, the Nevada Museum of Art, the California African American Museum, the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, and the Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago.

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March 23 — SoCal Museums (including Museum of Ventura County, Santa Barbara Museum of Art) announce the annual MUSEUMS FREE-FOR-ALL Day

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SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — SoCal Museums announces the 19th Annual Museums Free-for-All on Saturday, March 23, 2024. Over 30 museums—presenting art, cultural heritage, natural history, and science—will open their doors and invite visitors to attend free of charge.

Locally, the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History (SBMNH), and the Museum of Ventura County, all members of SoCal Museums, will participate in offering free admission. In the case of SBMNH, booking advanced reservations by visiting sbnature.org is encouraged and free admission is for the museum only, not the Sea Center.

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May 19 — Santa Barbara Museum of Art to present FREE Talk and Book Signing of ‘The Butterfly Wood House’ by Architect Robert Ooley

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Join us for a presentation and signing of the book The Butterfly Wood House by Robert Ooley, FAIA. Robert has been an architect for the private and public sector on the Central Coast for over 25 years. He is an author, playwright, and the Director of Facilities for SBMA.

Frank Lloyd Wright’s Butterfly Wood house opens the door into one of the architect’s last commissions of his Prairie Style and is the only example of that time in his career on the west coast of the United States. Located in the secluded enclave of Montecito, California, at the corner of Hot Springs and Summit Roads is this 4,500-square-foot redwood treasure. This story weaves together the family that wanted a coastal retreat, a world-renowned embattled architect, and the house they made together.

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June 6 — Santa Barbara Museum of Art to present free public performance of ‘The Earth Under Our Feet’ with Artist Ashwini Bhat

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After 35 years in Southern India, transdisciplinary artist Ashwini Bhat now lives and works in the foothills of Sonoma Mountain, CA. Coming from a background in literature and training in Bharatanatyam, a classical Indian dance, Bhat uses sculptures, installations, video, and text to develop a unique visual language exploring the intersections between body and nature, self and other.

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Aug. 25 — Santa Barbara Museum of Art Presents A Day of Music in the Galleries

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Featured musicians Jessica Guideri (violin), concertmaster of the Santa Barbara Symphony, and Amy Tatum, principal flute for the Santa Barbara Symphony, will play a combination of solo pieces and duets. Each piece will be roughly 20 minutes in length, each responding to a different work in the exhibition. Performances are at 1 pm, 1:15 pm, 1:45 pm, and 2:15 pm.

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Through Nov. 3 — Santa Barbara Museum of Art presents ‘A Legacy of Giving — The Lady Leslie and Lord Paul Ridley-Tree Collection’

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For over 25 years, Lady Leslie and Lord Paul Ridley-Tree generously supported the Santa Barbara Museum of Art in its mission “to integrate art into the lives of people.” Leslie Ridley-Tree served on the Board of Trustees for 15 years, President of the Board of Trustees from 1994 to 1996, and became a Life Honorary Trustee in 2014.

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Jan. 28 — Santa Barbara Museum of Art to present From Page to Silver Screen: The Maltese Falcon

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Santa Barbara Museum of Art to present “From Page to Silver Screen: The Maltese Falcon — SBMA Museum Collectors Council Film Screening,” from 1:30 to 4 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 28 at SBMA’s Mary Craig Auditorium, 1130 State St., Santa Barbara.

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Through Jan. 2023 — SBMA’s Parallel Stories features artist Marshall Brown and the opening of ‘The Architecture of Collage’

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The Santa Barbara Museum of Art’s Parallel Stories features artist Marshall Brown and the opening of “The Architecture of Collage” at 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Oct.. 2 at 1130 State St., Santa Barbara.

Layering, fragments, appropriation, cutting, higher cribbing, collage, and what artist Marshall Brown has called “creative miscegenation,” are all part of the crucible in which familiar themes are recast in art and literature. Is the resulting cross-disciplinary mashup an homage to what is left, what is kept, and what is removed? Award-winning andNew York Times bestselling author Jonathan Lethem joins artist, Urbanist, Princeton University professor of Architecture, and critical-thinking futurist Marshall Brown in a conversation about what Lethem termed the “Ecstasy of Influence.” Book signing to follow.

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Feb. 9 — Santa Barbara Museum of Art features ‘Parallel Stories — Couples’ with Rachel Cusk, Siemon Scamell-Katz, and Andrew Winer

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The Santa Barbara Museum of Art features “Parallel Stories” with Rachel Cusk, Siemon Scamell-Katz, and Andrew Winer at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 9 at the Mary Craig Auditorium, 1130 State St., Santa Barbara.

Inspired by the artistic collaboration of Ed Kienholz and Nancy Reddin Kienholz and the SBMA exhibition Scenes from a Marriage: Ed & Nancy Kienholz, Parallel Stories examines what happens in fiction and life when artist couples work together.

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March 2 — Santa Barbara Museum of Art to present Miró Quartet Chamber Music Concert

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Santa Barbara Museum of Art to present Miró Quartet Chamber Music Concert at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, March 2 at SBMA’s Mary Craig Auditorium, 1130 State St., Santa Barbara.

Formed in 1995, the Austin, Texas-based Miró Quartet, is one of America’s most celebrated string quartets, having performed throughout the world on the most prestigious concert stages. They won first prizes at the Banff International String Quartet Competition and Naumburg Chamber Music Competition, and in 2005, became the first ensemble ever to be awarded an Avery Fisher Career Grant. The Miró is quartet-in-residence at Chamber Music Northwest in Portland, OR and Orcas Island Chamber Music Festival in Washington State.

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May 4 — Santa Barbara Museum of Art will present the Art Matters Lecture ‘Men in Pink: Eighteenth-Century French Portraiture’

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Though never as ubiquitous in the 18th century as the color blue, pink became the color par excellence of the French Rococo. The color was intimately associated with the so-called “Godmother of the Rococo,” Madame de Pompadour, the famous mistress of Louis XV.

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July 6 — SBMA to present Art Matters Lecture on Zurbarán and Murillo

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During the 1620s and 1630s, Seville’s many religious foundations kept Francisco de Zurbarán and his large workshop busy with commissions. After about 1640, however, Zurbarán’s sober and restrained style lost favor to the softer look and more emotional appeal of younger artists, and he began to actively produce paintings for export to the New World.

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July 20 — Santa Barbara Museum of Art to present Reading and Conversation of ‘Blue Skies’ by T.C. Boyle

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Returning to the Museum in what has become a much-anticipated and highly-animated annual event, T.C. Boyle, Santa Barbara’s prolific and perennial favorite, reads from his latest novel, Blue Skies.

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Aug. 19 — Santa Barbara Museum of Art to present ‘Wares!’ exhibition artist Seth Bogart in Conversation and Free Workshop

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Join WARES! exhibition artist Seth Bogart for a casual conversation, hands-on demo, and unique opportunity to create with clay and cardboard. Pinch, roll, repurpose, twist, glue, and build with the help from Museum Teaching Artists, and explore how the ordinary can be elevated. Dress for mess.

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Nov. 1 — Santa Barbara Museum of Art to present Manderling Quartet

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SANTA BARBARA — The Santa Barbara Museum of Art will present the Manderling Quartet at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 1 at SBMA’s Mary Craig Auditorium, 1130 State St., Santa Barbara.

The Mandelring Quartet, founded in 1983, is the winner of major competitions, including ARD’s International Music Competition and the Premio Paolo Borciani. They are frequent performers at international musical centers and leading festivals such as the Schwarzenberg and Hohensems Schubertiades, the Lower Rhine Music Festival, and the Ludwigsburg Castle Festival. The ensemble was Quartet-in-Residence for the 2020/21 season in the Circulo de Bellas Artes in Madrid.

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Nov. 5 — Santa Barbara Museum of Art to present ‘Sketching Ideas’: Writing’s Visuality in Chinese Flower-and-Bird Painting

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SANTA BARBARA — The Santa Barbara Museum of Art to present ‘Sketching Ideas’: Writing’s Visuality in Chinese Flower-and-Bird Painting Lecture by Peter Sturman, Professor, Department of History of Art and Architecture, UC Santa Barbara at 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 5 at SBMA’s Mary Craig Auditorium, 1130 State St., Santa Barbara.

Xieyi, “the writing or sketching of ideas,” refers to a particularly free-form mode of painting in China that showcases the artist’s virtuosity wielding a quick-moving brush to capture vibrant and seemingly spontaneous images. Forefronting the dynamic potential of the brush, the technique naturally calls to mind the art of calligraphy, especially the dynamic cursive script, but Xiyu’s association with the art of writing goes far deeper than surface appearances. Spontaneity implies naturalness and authenticity, even spiritual transcendence. Moreover, for scholar-official painters, Xiyu’s linkage to calligraphy offered an essential bridge between image-making and literary expression.

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Nov. 9 — Santa Barbara Museum of Art to present free film screening of ‘América Tropical: The Martyr Mural of Siqueiros’

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SANTA BARBARA — Santa Barbara Museum of Art to present free film screening of “América Tropical: The Martyr Mural of Siqueiros” at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 9 at SBMA’s Mary Craig Auditorium, 1130 State St., Santa Barbara.

This free screening of the documentary América Tropical: The Martyr Mural of Siqueiros, is followed by a discussion with Dignicraft filmmakers Omar Foglio, Paola Rodríguez, and José Luis Figueroa and moderated by Edgar Garcia, Assistant General Manager, El Pueblo de Los Angeles, and James Glisson, SBMA Curator of Contemporary Art.

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Jan. 6 — Santa Barbara Museum of Art will present Art Matters Lecture ‘Buried by Vesuvius: Conserving a Monumental Drunken Satyr Bronze Statue from Herculaneum’

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The Santa Barbara Museum of Art will present Art Matters Lecture
“Buried by Vesuvius: Conserving a Monumental Drunken Satyr Bronze Statue from Herculaneum,” with Erik Risser, Associate Conservator of Antiquities, J. Paul Getty Museum, at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 6, 2022.

In advance of the international loan exhibition Buried by Vesuvius: Treasures from the Villa dei Papiri at the Getty Villa in Los Angeles in 2019, the Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli (MANN) generously lent the bronze statue of a Drunken Satyr for study, analysis, and conservation.

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Jan. 23 — Santa Barbara Museum of Art to present Parallel Stories Controlling the Narrative: Both/And

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The Santa Barbara Museum of Art will present “Parallel Stories Controlling the Narrative: Both/And” at 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 23.

In a conversation and reading, Emily Rapp Black, award-winning author of Poster Child: A Memoir and The Still Point of the Turning World, a New York Times bestseller, explores art and disability in her most recent book Frida Kahlo and My Left Leg. With elegance, tenderness, and zero sentimentality, she deconstructs the mythologies of words like bravery and resilience and recognizes in Kahlo a twin at the art of creating to silence pain. Joining her is colleague Alex Espinoza, Tomás Rivera Endowed Chair of Creative Writing at UC Riverside and author of novels Still Water Saints and The Five Acts of Diego Léon, and the recent nonfiction book Cruising: An Intimate History of a Radical Pastime.

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March 13 — Santa Barbara Museum of Art to present ‘Through Vincent’s Eyes: Van Gogh and His Sources’ exhibit symposium

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The Santa Barbara Museum of Art will present “Through Vincent’s Eyes: Van Gogh and His Sources” exhibit symposium from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday, March 13.

In conjunction with the exhibition Through Vincent’s Eyes: Van Gogh and His Sources, join five scholars for a one-day seminar on the themes of the exhibition.

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March 20 — Santa Barbara Museum of Art to present ‘Vincent’

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The Santa Barbara Museum of Art will present “Vincent” at 1 and 3 p.m. Sunday, March 20 at the Mary Craig Auditorium, 1130 State St., Santa Barbara.

Vincent is the critically lauded one-man play, written by Emmy-nominated actor Leonard Nimoy, that paints a thoughtful, imaginary scenario about one of the most famous names in the art world, Vincent van Gogh. Based on excerpts from the hundreds of letters exchanged between the artist and his brother Theo, this version of the intimately scaled play features Charles Pasternak, award-winning actor and Designate Artistic Director of Santa Cruz Shakespeare, in the dual roles of Vincent and Theo.

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March 22 — Santa Barbara Museum of Art to present Paris-based Arod Quartet

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Santa Barbara Museum of Art to present Paris-based Arod Quartet AT 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 22 at SBMA’s Mary Craig Auditorium, 1130 State St.

With all four members only in their twenties, the Paris-based Arod Quartet has already dazzled awestruck chamber-music lovers in concerts at such prestigious venues as the Auditorium of the Louvre in Paris and the Verbier Festival in Switzerland.

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March 31 — Santa Barbara Museum of Art to present Parallel Stories ‘On Freedom: A Conversation with Author Maggie Nelson’

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The Santa Barbara Museum of Art will present Parallel Stories “On Freedom: A Conversation with Author Maggie Nelson” at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, March 31.

Author Maggie Nelson returns to SBMA’s Parallel Stories with a reading and discussion of On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint, a boundary-pushing, provocative work that explores the notion of freedom through four lenses: art, sex, drugs, and the climate. In this highly anticipated follow-up to the award-winning The Argonauts, Nelson continues to astound as “one of the most electrifying writers at work in America today, among the sharpest and most supple thinkers of her generation” (The Guardian).

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April 7 — Santa Barbara Museum of Art to present ‘Van Gogh the Anglophile: Looking Through his Eyes at Victorian Art Art Matters Lecture with Malcolm Warner’

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Santa Barbara Museum of Art to present “Van Gogh the Anglophile: Looking Through his Eyes at Victorian Art Art Matters Lecture with Malcolm Warner” from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. Thursday, April 7 at SBMA’s Mary Craig Auditorium, 1130 State St., Santa Barbara.

As a pioneer of the modern movement, Van Gogh seems an unlikely fan of what we call Victorian art. But his time in London left him with a love of English painting and illustration. He looked up to the pre-eminent English painter, John Everett Millais, and collected gritty, working-class images from London magazines. “For me,” he wrote to his brother Theo in 1882, “one of the highest and noblest expressions of art is always that of the English.”

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April 14 — Santa Barbara Museum of Art presents ‘Shadow Art: Influences and Inspirations’

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The Santa Barbara Museum of Art will present “Shadow Art: Influences and Inspirations,” Parallel Stories with Sameer Pandya and Andrew Winer, at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, April 14 at SBMA’s Mary Craig Auditorium, 1130 State St., Santa Barbara.

The exhibition Through Vincent’s Eyes: Van Gogh and His Sources reconnects this iconic artist to his 19th-century context and invites us to consider the artists, musicians, and writers he admired.

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April 27 — Santa Barbara Museum of Art to present ‘UCSB Gagaku Project — Music of the Imperial Ceremonies of Japan, One Thousand Years of Elegance and Harmony’

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Santa Barbara Museum of Art to present “UCSB Gagaku Project — Music of the Imperial Ceremonies of Japan, One Thousand Years of Elegance and Harmony” at 6 p.m. Wednesday, April 27 at SBMA’s Mary Craig Auditorium, 1130 State St., Santa Barbara.

In collaboration with the UCSB Gagaku Project, a multidisciplinary initiative spearheaded in 2019 by UCSB Professor Fabio Rambelli, SBMA’s Friends of Asian Art is proud to present a Japanese gagaku performance.

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April 28 — Santa Barbara Museum of Art to present the Valencia Baryton Project at next Chamber Music Concert

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The Santa Barbara Museum of Art will present the Valencia Baryton Project at next Chamber Music Concert at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, April 28 at SBMA’s Mary Craig Auditorium, 1130 State St., Santa Barbara.

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May 5 — Santa Barbara Museum of Art to present Free Community Day at SBMA for Santa Barbara and Ventura County residents

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Santa Barbara Museum of Art will present Free Community Day at SBMA for Santa Barbara and Ventura County residents at 8 p.m. Thursday, May 5 at 1130 State St., Santa Barbara.

Santa Barbara and Ventura County residents enjoy free admission to the Museum (including the special exhibitionThrough Vincent’s Eyes: Van Gogh and His Sources). Enjoy art activities from 5:30 to 7:30 pm in the Family Resource Center. Proof of residence is required upon entry.

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May 16 — Santa Barbara Museum of Art to present Ying Quartet

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The Santa Barbara Museum of Art to present the Ying Quartetat 7:30 p.m. Monday, May 16 at SBMA’s Mary Craig Auditorium, 1130 State St., Santa Barbara.

The Ying Quartet occupies a position of unique prominence in the classical music world, combining brilliantly communicative performances with a fearlessly imaginative view of chamber music in today’s world. Now in its second decade as a group, the Quartet has established itself as an ensemble of the highest musical qualifications in its tours across the United States and abroad. Their performances regularly take place in many of the world’s most important concert halls, from Carnegie Hall to the Sydney Opera House. The Ying Quartet performed at SBMA in 2013 and 2017.

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May 22 — Santa Barbara Museum of Art to present ‘The Sound of Stars Parallel Stories with Jake Heggie’

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The Santa Barbara Museum of Art will present “The Sound of Stars Parallel Stories with Jake Heggie” at 3 p.m. Sunday, May 22 at the New Vic Theatre, 33 West Victoria St., Santa Barbara.

In this unique collaboration between the Santa Barbara Museum of Art and Opera Santa Barbara and in celebration of the exhibition Through Vincent’s Eyes: Van Gogh and His Sources, composer, pianist, Grammy nominee, and Guggenheim Fellow Jake Heggie discusses the coming together of “The Starry Night,” a song cycle inspired by the art of Vincent van Gogh with text taken from his letters and poetry by Anne Sexton and Emily Dickinson. Performed by mezzo soprano Erin Alford.

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May 26 — SBMA features author Geoff Dyer and ‘The Last Days of Roger Federer’ at the next Parallel Stories on May 26

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The Santa Barbara Museum of Art features author Geoff Dyer and ‘The Last Days of Roger Federer’ at the next Parallel Stories at5:30 p.m. Thursday May 26 at SBMA’s Mary Craig Auditorium, 1130 State St., Santa Barbara.

In his latest book, the idiosyncratic and indefatigable Geoff Dyer turns his well-honed wit and sharp-edged wisdom to the consideration of endings.

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July 7 — SBMA Art Matters Lecture Explores Olfactory Ecologies and Contemporary Art

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Santa Barbara Museum of Art’s Art Matters Lecture Explores Olfactory Ecologies and Contemporary Art with Hsuan L. Hsu, Professor of English, University of California Davis at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, July 7 at SBMA’s Mary Craig Auditorium, 1130 State St.

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July 9 — Santa Barbara Museum of Art to present Free Lecture by Acclaimed Photographer Janna Ireland

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Santa Barbara Museum of Art to present Free Lecture by Acclaimed Photographer Janna Ireland — “The 2022 Lorna Spencer Hedges Photography Lecture,” at 2 p.m. Saturday, July 9 at SBMA’s Mary Craig Auditorium, 1130 State St., Santa Barbara.

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Aug. 4 — Santa Barbara Museum of Art to present ‘Joan Miró in Time and Space’

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The Santa Barbara Museum of Art will present its Arts Matters Lecture “Joan Miró in Time and Space” by Charles Palermo, Professor of Art History at The College of William and Mary at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 4 at SBMA’s Mary Craig Auditorium, 1130 State St., Santa Barbara.

This lecture reviews works—paintings, objects, sculptures—by the great Catalan artist Joan Miró. Charles Palermo offers readings of works in the hope of showing how Miró implies movement and scale in his works. The result is fictional worlds with their own sense of time and place, which nevertheless stand right before us.

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Aug. 18 — Visit Santa Barbara Museum of Art for free Third Thursday celebrating the newly-installed iconic portrait bust by artist Awol Erizku, Nefertiti – Miles Davis (Gold)

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Visit SBMA for Third Thursday celebrating the newly-installed iconic portrait bust by artist Awol Erizku, Nefertiti – Miles Davis (Gold), now on view over the Visitor Services desk at the State Street entrance and featuring the following free activities and offerings:

Free Museum admission, 5 – 8 pm
Music by DJ Darla Bea on the Front Terrace, 5 – 7:30 pm
Complimentary docent Ten Talks for Going Global: Abstract Art at Mid-Century at 6 and 6:30 pm
Teaching Artist-led art activities in the Family Resource Center, 5 – 7 pm
Free raffle entry for a chance to win a gift bag of artful treasures from the Museum Store

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Aug. 31 — Santa Barbara Museum of Art to present Activating the Spectator by Reshaping the Aesthetic Field: Op, Kinetic, and Participatory Art at Mid-Century

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The Santa Barbara Museum of Art will present Activating the Spectator by Reshaping the Aesthetic Field: Op, Kinetic, and Participatory Art at Mid-Century at 3 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 31 at SBMA’s Mary Craig Auditorium, 1130 State St., Santa Barbara.

Art historian Alexander Alberro explores the development of a research-based artistic practice that fused abstract art with mathematics, science, and technology in the late 1950s and early 1960s. The stated goal of the artists involved was to demystify the creative process in favor of an objective investigation of visual phenomena. Alberro addresses how and why these experiments evolved into a greater concern with the participation of art spectators.

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Sept. 1 — SBMA Art Matters Lecture explores Julius Caesar as the Second Founder of Rome

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The Santa Barbara Museum of Art’s Art Matters Lecture explores Julius Caesar as the Second Founder of Rome from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 1 at SBMA’s Mary Craig Auditorium, 1130 State St., Santa Barbara.

Art Matters Lecture features Chris Hallett, Ph.D., Professor of Roman Art with the Department of History of Art, UC Berkeley

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Through Sept. 25 — Santa Barbara Museum of Art to present ‘Going Global: Abstract Art at Mid-Century’

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The Santa Barbara Museum of Art to present “Going Global: Abstract Art at Mid-Century” through Sept. 25.

Like the US dollar, air travel, and space satellites, abstract art encircled the globe or at least the capitalist West during the middle of the 20th century.

This exhibition shows just how far abstraction reached and some of the forms it took during the Cold War, when glossy color magazines and proliferating fairs brought a globalized art world into being. Going Global has artists born in Argentina, Colombia, Germany, France, Israel, Japan, Mexico, Peru, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Nearly all the works come from the Museum’s permanent collection.

Artists in the exhibition include Yaacov Agam, Carlos Cruz-Diez, Eduardo MacEntyre, Ernst Nay, Kenzo Okada, Jesús Rafael Soto, Pierre Soulages, Fernando de Szyszlo Valdelomar, Bridget Riley, Maria Helena Vieira da Silva, and Kansuke Yamamoto.

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Oct. 17 — Santa Barbara Museum of Art to present Aeolus Quartet Chamber Music Concert

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The Santa Barbara Museum of Art will present Aeolus Quartet Chamber Music Concert at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 17.

Formed in 2008, the Aeolus Quartet has performed in venues ranging from the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and Lincoln Center’s Great Performers Series to Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, to Dupont Underground, a subterranean streetcar station in DC’s Dupont Circle. They were the 2013-2015 Graduate Resident String Quartet at the Juilliard School and are currently Quartet-in-Residence at Musica Viva, NY. In addition to extensive touring throughout the United States, the 2021-22 season includes a Morgan Library performance as well as a feature on the Violin Channel.

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Oct. 23 — Santa Barbara Museum of Art to present ‘Day of the Dead’ Free Family Day

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The Santa Barbara Museum of Art will present its Free “Day of the Dead” Free Family Day from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 23 at 1130 State St., Santa Barbara.

For the 33rd year, the Museum honors the Mexican tradition of remembering the dead with a display of altars created by students in the Museum’s school and outreach programs and local community groups, including San Marcos High School, Montecito Union School, Quilt Project Gold Coast, SBMA’s Partnership with A-OK After-School Program (multiple schools), and SBMA’s ArtReach program (multiple schools).

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Nov. 3 — Santa Barbara Museum of Art’s Art Matters Lecture Explores the Promise of Thomas Cole’s Late Career

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Santa Barbara Museum of Art to present Art Matters Lecture “What Might Have Been: The Promise of Thomas Cole’s Late Career” at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 3 at 1130 State St., Santa Barbara.

The Art Matters Lecture features Franklin Kelly, Senior Curator and Christiane Ellis Valone Curator of American Paintings, National Gallery of Art.

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Nov. 17 — Award-winning author Susan Straight and ‘Mecca’ are featured during the next SBMA Parallel Stories

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Award-winning author Susan Straight and “Mecca” are featured during the next SBMA Parallel Stories at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 17 at SBMA’s Mary Craig Auditorium, 1130 State St., Santa Barbara.

The New York Times award-winning author Susan Straight returns to read from her latest and much lauded novel, Mecca. Set in Southern California’s inland and high desert area, this is a story of freeways, wildfires, secrets, and struggles that is, at its heart, a love song for a place and its people.

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Nov. 21 — Santa Barbara Museum of Art to present Grammy Award-winning Parker Quartet

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The Santa Barbara Museum of Art to present Grammy Award-winning Parker Quartet at 7:30 Monday, Nov. 21 at SBMA’s Mary Craig Auditorium, 1130 State St., Santa Barbara.

Inspiring performances, luminous sound, and exceptional musicianship are the hallmarks of the Grammy Award-winning Parker Quartet.

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Dec. 1 — SBMA’s Art Matters Lecture looks at Impressionism and Climate Change

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Santa Barbara Museum of Art’s Art Matters Lecture looks at Impressionism and Climate Change with Harmon Siegel, Ph.D., Junior Fellow, Harvard Society of Fellows at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 1 at SBMA’s Mary Craig Auditorium, 1130 State St., Santa Barbara.

Impressionism has, from the beginning, been seen as an art of nature. Today, however, in the moment we call the Anthropocene, when human projects have transformed every corner of the planet and threaten to make it uninhabitable, this commitment may seem hopelessly naive. In fact, however, impressionist paintings illuminate our condition, revealing the entanglement of nature and society. In so doing, they help us overcome nostalgia for a lost nature and recognize our responsibility for shaping the world we inhabit.

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Jan. 22 — SBMA presents FREE ‘Art and Shutdown’ talk with NY-baed art critic Lauren O’Neill-Butler via Zoom

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Santa Barbara Museum of Art will present: Art and Shutdown’ talk with NY-baed art critic Lauren O’Neill-Butler (via Zoom).

Lauren O’Neill-Butler, a New York art critic, reflects on the highs, lows, and lessons learned while writing art criticism during the lockdown in 2020. She is an independent writer, editor, educator, and a cofounder of November magazine, and her writing has appeared in publications ranging fromArt Journal to The New York Times. From 2008 to 2019, she worked as an editor at Artforum. In 2020, she received a Warhol Foundation Art Writers Grant and a book of her collected interviews with women-identified artists
will be published by KARMA in 2021.

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Feb. 4 — SBMA presents Lecture (via Zoom) The 500 Faces of Teotihuacan

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SANTA BARBARA — Santa Barbara Museum of Art will present: Lecture (via Zoom) “The 500 Faces of Teotihuacan.” Matthew Robb Chief Curator, Fowler Museum From 100 BCE to 600 CE, the ancient Mexican city of Teotihuacan dominated Mesoamerica though a complex mixture of religious,…

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March 4 — SBMA to present Art Matters Lecture (via Zoom) ‘Expert Hands, Infectious Touch: Painting and Pregnancy in Morisot’s The Mother and Sister of the Artist’

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The Santa Barbara Museum of Art will present FREE “Art Matters Lecture (via Zoom) ‘Expert Hands, Infectious Touch: Painting and Pregnancy in Morisot’s The Mother and Sister of the Artist” with Mary Hunter, Associate Professor, Art History and Communication Studies, McGill University at 3 p.m. Thursday, March 4.

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March 16 — SBMA to present ‘What You Become in Flight: A Conversation with Ellen O’Connell Whittet (via Zoom)’

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The Santa Barbara Museum of Art will present “What You Become in Flight: A Conversation with Ellen O’Connell Whittet (via Zoom)” at 5 p.m. Tuesday, March 16.

In this searingly raw and graceful first book, author Ellen O’Connell Whittet explores both the joy of learning to jump and the safety of landing. Sorrow, violence, love, fear, hunger, and pain run through this memoir that critics have called “enthralling,” “poignant,” and “exquisite.” Join the author for a conversation that opens out the personal to the universal questions of self-worth, the desire to disappear, the loss and reclamation of our own voice, and what it feels like to look at a body and see a story.

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April 1 — SBMA to present ‘The Art of Agnes Martin: Between the Lines of the Catalogue Raisonné Art Matters Lecture (via Zoom)’

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The Santa Barbara Museum of Art will present “The Art of Agnes Martin: Between the Lines of the Catalogue Raisonné Art Matters Lecture (via Zoom)” with Tiffany Bell, Independent Scholar, NY at 3 p.m. Thursday, April 1.

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April 30 — Three Perspectives on Contemporary Painting: A Conversation with Suzanne Hudson, Math Bass, and Christina Quarles (via Zoom)

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“Three Perspectives on Contemporary Painting: 
A Conversation with Suzanne Hudson, Math Bass, and Christina Quarles (via Zoom)” will be presented from 5 to 6 p.m. Friday, April 30 by the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, sponsored in part by The Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara.

In her forthcoming book Contemporary Painting (Thames and Hudson, April 2021), Los Angeles-based art historian and critic Suzanne Hudson considers painting as a vibrant and sometimes contentious critic of a dynamic global society. Two esteemed painters, Math Bass and Christina Quarles, who are discussed in Hudson’s book, join the author in a conversation about painting. This event is moderated by curators from the Santa Barbara Museum of Art and the Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara.

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May 6 — SBMA’s FREE Art Matters Lecture Revisits “One Life: Marian Anderson” on May 6

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With each of her performances, the Philadelphia-born contralto Marian Anderson (1897–1993) tested limits and broke boundaries. She is best remembered for her gripping recital on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on Easter Sunday in April 1939, when some 75,000 people gathered to witness her sing. On account of her race, Anderson had been prohibited from performing at the Daughters of the American Revolution’s Constitution Hall and other venues in Washington, D.C. The concert on the National Mall, therefore, became a watershed moment in the struggle against segregationist policies and discrimination.

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July 1 — Santa Barbara Museum of Art will present ‘Terms of Endearment: Social Parameters of Yasuo Kuniyoshi’s American Success’

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The Santa Barbara Museum of Art will present “Terms of Endearment: Social Parameters of Yasuo Kuniyoshi’s American Success” as part of its Art Matters Lecture (via Zoom) at 3 p.m. Thursday, July 1

Featuring Bert Winther-Tamaki, Professor of Visual Studies, UC Irvine

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Aug. 5 — SBMA to present Arts Matters Lecture via Zoom) Restoration/Revelation: The Conservation Treatment of the ‘Ghent Altarpiece’

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The Santa Barbara Museum of Art will present its Arts Matters Lecture via Zoom) Restoration/Revelation: The Conservation Treatment of the “Ghent Altarpiece” with Bart J.C. Devolder, Chief Conservator, Princeton University Museum of Art at 3 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 5.

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Sept. 2 — Santa Barbara Museum of Art to present Art Matters Lecture (via Zoom) Ashes to Dust: American Art and the Dreadful Thirties with Justin Wolff, Professor of Art History, University of Maine

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The Santa Barbara Museum of Art will present the Art Matters Lecture (via Zoom) “Ashes to Dust: American Art and the Dreadful Thirties” with Justin Wolff, Professor of Art History, University of Maine at 3 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 2 at 1130 State St., Santa Barbara.

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Sept. 12 — Santa Barbara Museum of Art to present ‘Talk To Me: T.C. Boyle’ Virtual experience via Zoom

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The Santa Barbara Museum of Art will present “Talk To Me: T.C. Boyle” Virtual experience via Zoom at 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 12.

Bestselling author and Santa Barbara’s own idiosyncratic muse, T.C. Boyle returns to celebrate the Museum’s grand reopening and read from his lively and thought-provoking new novel Talk To Me. With an intoxicating mix of humor and profundity, Boyle explores a world where people can really talk to animals as he turns to the questions few of us admit to wondering about. What does it mean to be human? Is fully communicating with another being possible? Can one fully know a person or animal?

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Oct. 7 — Santa Barbara Museum of Art to present ‘Enigmatic Architecture: R. M. Schindler’s Los Angeles’

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The Santa Barbara Museum of Art will present “Enigmatic Architecture: R. M. Schindler’s Los Angeles” at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 7 at SBMA’s Mary Craig Auditorium, 1130 State St.

The event its an Art Matters Lecture with Todd Cronan, Associate Professor of Art History, Emory University.

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Oct. 9 — Grammy-winner Ted Nash leads SBCC composers in concert at Museum of Art

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Grammy Award-winning musician and composer Ted Nash will lead a group of Santa Barbara City College musicians in a concert of original music on the front terrace of the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Oct. 9 at 2:30 p.m. The pieces are all inspired by or are musical interpretations of works of art from the museum’s collection.

The concert, “Ted Nash: The Sound of Art,” will share the creative accomplishments made by the SBCC New World Jazz Ensemble during a workshop held in September. As part of his two-week stay as a Santa Barbara Museum of Art Artist in Residence, Nash led the group through a unique composition process using works of art as inspirations for new musical compositions.

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Oct. 14 — SBMA to present ‘Controlling the Narrative: Both/And Parallel Stories (via Zoom)’

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In a conversation and reading, Emily Rapp Black, award-winning author of Poster Child: A Memoir and The Still Point of the Turning World, a New York Times bestseller, explores art and disability in her most recent book Frida Kahlo and My Left Leg. With elegance, tenderness, and zero sentimentality, she deconstructs the mythologies of words like bravery and resilience and recognizes in Kahlo a twin at the art of creating to silence pain. Joining her is colleague Alex Espinoza, Tomás Rivera Endowed Chair of Creative Writing at UC Riverside and author of novels Still Water Saints and The Five Acts of Diego Léon, and the recent nonfiction bookCruising: An Intimate History of a Radical Pastime.

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Oct. 20 — Santa Barbara Museum of Art to present Curator-led Walkthrough of SBMA exhibition ‘In the Meanwhile’

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The Santa Barbara Museum of Art will present the Curator-led Walkthrough of SBMA exhibition “In the Meanwhile” at 2 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 20.

Exhibition curator and ArtCenter College of Design Senior Curator Julie Joyce focuses on the multiplicity of histories and stories to be captured in works by Nigel Cooke, Noah Davis, Vernon Fisher, Charles Garabedian, Tom Knechtel, Jeni Spota, and others.

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Oct. 24 — Santa Barbara Museum of Art to present Día de los Muertos Art Activities & Student and Community Altar Display

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For the 32nd year, the Santa Barbara Museum of Art honors the Mexican tradition of remembering the dead with a display of altars created by students in SBMA’s outreach programs and community groups. Día de los Muertos inspired art activities for all ages will be offered on the Front Terrace. Community altars also on display on Saturday, October 23 (with Museum admission).

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Nov. 2 — Santa Barbara Museum of Art to present reading and book signing by Author Mary Tonetti Dorra’s ‘Two Lives on Four Continents: A Double Memoir’

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The Santa Barbara Museum of Art will present reading and book signing by Author Mary Tonetti Dorra’s “Two Lives on Four Continents: A Double Memoir” at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 2. 

During this intimate reading and book signing, author Mary Tonetti Dorra shares her personal experience and gives a reading from her upcoming book Two Lives on Four Continents: A Double Memoir. This work tells the story of how Mary and her husband Henri Dorra, two people from different worlds, found each other and created a unified life. Against the sweeping history of the 20th century, readers will travel from Alexandria, Egypt to Washington DC, and from Fort Worth Texas to Central and South America and Italy as they follow the exciting lives of Mary and Henri Dorra.

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Nov. 6 — Santa Barbara Museum of Art to present ‘Community-based Practice in Cultural Heritage Conservation: The Kamehameha I Sculpture of Hawai’i’

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Santa Barbara Museum of Art to present ‘Community-based Practice in Cultural Heritage Conservation: The Kamehameha I Sculpture of Hawai’i’ from 1 to 2 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 6.

In this presentation, Dr. Glen Wharton discusses his three-year collaboration with residents in a semi-rural Hawaiian community to research the material and social history of the Kamehameha I sculpture on the Big Island, leading to a community decision about whether to gold leaf or paint it.

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Dec. 2 — SBMA to present ‘Power and Metals: Regalia of the Moche of Ancient Perú’

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The Santa Barbara Museum of Art to present “Power and Metals: Regalia of the Moche of Ancient Perú” — Art Matters Lecture with Alicia Boswell, Assistant Professor, History of Art and Architecture, UCSB at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 2 at the Mary Craig Auditorium, 1130 State St., Santa Barbara.

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Santa Barbara Museum of Art announces upcoming exhibits, events from March through May

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1130 State Street, Santa Barbara, CA. Open Tuesday-Sunday 11 am – 5 pm, Free Thursday Evening 5 – 8 pm 805.963.4364 www.sbma.net   Enjoy half-price admission!   Exhibition Openings   Nathlie Provosty, Council, Untitled (16-38), 2016. Watercolor on paper, diptych.…

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Jan. 12 — Santa Barbara Museum of Art to present ‘Armchair Travel Lecture: Victoria Lautman’

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SANTA BARBARA — The Santa Barbara Museum of Art will present the “Armchair Travel Lecture: Victoria Lautman — Subterranean Ghosts: The Vanishing Stepwells of India” 3 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 12 at 1130 State St., Santa Barbara. India’s palaces, forts, temples, and tombs are on every…

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Jan. 16 — SBMA presents ‘Writing in the Galleries’

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Courtesy photo SANTA BARBARA — Santa Barbara Museum of Art to present: “Writing in the Galleries,” 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 16, 1130 State St., Santa Barbara. Writers of all levels are invited to participate in this informal exploration of the Museum’s galleries as…

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Jan. 23 — SBMA presents ‘Sketching in the Galleries’

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Courtesy photo. SANTA BARBARA — Santa Barbara Museum of Art to present: “Sketching in the Galleries,” 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 25, 1130 State St., Santa Barbara. All skill levels are invited to experience the tradition of sketching from original works of art in…

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Jan. 25 — SBMA, SBMNH, and SBHM participate on Museums Free-for-All with FREE admission

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SoCal Museums Announces the 15th Annual MUSEUMS FREE-FOR-ALL Santa Barbara Museum of Art and Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History join over 40 Institutions offering FREE admission Saturday, January 25, 2020 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — SoCal Museums announces the 15th Annual Museums…

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Jan. 30 — Santa Barbara Museum of Art to present Thalea String Quartet

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SANTA BARBARA — Santa Barbara Museum of Art will present: “Thalea String Quartet,” 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 30, 1130 State St., Santa Barbara, Mary Craig Auditorium. The Thalea String Quartet brings together artists of Nigerian, Venezuelan, Japanese, and Canadian heritage. With repertoire as…

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Feb. 6 — Santa Barbara Museum of Art to present ‘Art Matters Lecture Michelangelo: Burning Inspiration’

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SANTA BARBARA — The Santa Barbara Museum of Art will present “Art Matters Lecture Michelangelo: Burning Inspiration — Julian Brooks, Senior Curator of Drawing, J. Paul Getty Museum,” at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 6 at 1130 State St. Santa Barbara, Mary Craig…

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Feb. 6 — Santa Barbara Museum of Art to present an Evening of Art and Music on 1st Thursday

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SANTA BARBARA — Santa Barbara Museum of Art to present: an Evening of Art and Music from 5 to 8 p.m.Thursday, Feb. 6, 1130 State St., Santa Barbara. Pop-Up Opera — In February, Opera Santa Barbara returns to perform selections in honor of Black…

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March 8 — Santa Barbara Museum of Art to present Parallel Stories Lecture: Juan Felipe Herrera ‘Writing Love in the Face of Disaster’

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SANTA BARBARA — The Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1130 State Street, Santa Barbara, will present Parallel Stories Lecture: Juan Felipe Herrera ‘Writing Love in the Face of Disaster’, at 2:30 p.m. Sunday, March 8. “I’m a political poet—let us say a…

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March 12 — Santa Barbara Museum of Art to present award-winning, Paris-based Arod Quartet

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SANTA BARBARA — The Santa Barbara Museum of Artwill present award-winning, Paris-based Arod Quartet a 7:30 p.m. Thursday, March 12 at 1130 State St., Santa Barbara. Established in 2013, the Arod Quartet, based in Paris, has already captivated chamber music lovers, performing…

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March 12 — Santa Barbara Museum of Art to present Sketching in the Galleries

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SANTA BARBARA — The Santa Barbara Museum of Artwill present “Sketching in the Galleries” from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. Thursday, March 12 at 1130 State St., Santa Barbara. All skill levels are invited to experience the tradition of sketching from original works…

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CANCELED — March 19 — SBMA presents ‘Writing in the Galleries’

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SANTA BARBARA — Santa Barbara Museum of Art to present: “Writing in the Galleries,” 5:30 p.m. Thursday, March 19, 1130 State St., Santa Barbara. Writers of all levels are invited to participate in this informal exploration of the Museum’s galleries as an impetus…

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CANCELED — March 19 — Santa Barbara Museum of Art to present Film Screening Closing Celebration: Kehinde Wiley

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SANTA BARBARA — The Santa Barbara Museum of Art will present Film Screening Closing Celebration: Kehinde Wiley at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, March 19 at 1130 State St., Santa Barbara. Join SBMA in saying farewell to Kehinde Wiley: Equestrian Portrait of Prince Tommaso of Savoy-Carignan. To celebrate…

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EVENTS CANCELED THROUGH APRIL 20 — Santa Barbara Museum of Art announces upcoming exhibits

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UPDATE:  In light of the recent developments with the COVID-19 in Santa Barbara County and in accordance with the CDC and State of California, the Santa Barbara Museum of Art has made the decision to close to the public from Monday,…

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Aug. 23 — Santa Barbara Museum of Art to present Free Parallel Stories lecture with Pulitzer Prize-Winning author Hisham Matar

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The Santa Barbara Museum of Art will present FREE Free Parallel Stories lecture with Pulitzer Prize-Winning author Hisham Matar at 11 a.m. Sunday, Aug. 23 at 1130 State St., Santa Barbara.

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Sept. 24 — SBMA presents FREE virtual conversation with artist Edgar Arceneaux on the ‘Collision of Art and Politics’

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Santa Barbara Museum of Art to present: “Detroit Riots, Black Lives Matter, and The Collision of Art and Politics — A conversation with artist Edgar Arceneaux (via Zoom),” noon to 1 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 24, 1130 State St., Santa Barbara.

In a wide ranging and informal conversation with the audience, artist Edgar Arceneaux shares his thoughts about his art, current and past projects, and how we construct history and memory in a racially divided country. 

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Sept. 28 — Santa Barbara Museum of Art to present Zoom event — Your Good Pictures: Trends in Popular Photography

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The Santa Barbara Museum of Art will present the FREE SBMA Virtual Talk by Art Historian Kim Beil Focuses on Trends in Popular Photography at 6 p.m. Monday, Sept. 28.

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Oct. 1 — Santa Barbara Museum of Art to present ‘Art Matters Lecture Series (via Zoom)’

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The Santa Barbara Museum of Art will present Art Matters Lecture Series (via Zoom): “Casta Paintings: Picturing Racial Difference in Colonial Mexico” with Elena Fitzpatrick Sifford, Assistant Professor of Art History, Baker Center for the Artsat 3 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 1.

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Oct. 17, 18 — SBMA celebrates Dia de los Muertos virtually and live from Oaxaca

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For over 30 years, the Santa Barbara Museum of Art has celebrated the Mexican tradition of Día de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead, with music, dance, art activities and altar displays. This year, SBMA is bringing the festivities to you virtually via Zoom and live from Oaxaca for a behind the scenes glimpse of the artisans and art that are central to this deeply moving holiday.

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Oct. 26 — FREE Santa Barbara Museum of Art virtual discussion with artist Marshall Brown on 10/26!

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Working through the intertwined histories of art, architecture, and photography, Marshall Brown’s collages create new connections, associations, and meanings among disparate architectural and photographic sources. This talk focuses on collage making as a transgressive medium that embraces multiple histories, formal impurities, and uncertain visions for the future.

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Nov. 4 — Santa Barbara Museum of Art to present arallel Stories features award-winning poet Terrance Hayes

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Terrance Hayes is an elegant and adventurous writer with disarming humor, grace, tenderness, and brilliant turns of phrase, and very much interested in what it means to be an artist and a black man. He has called poetry both “music box and meat grinder” and in his playful, almost improvisational approach to language, his writing takes on the energy and teasing rhythms of jazz. An athlete and artist as well as an award-winning poet, Hayes defies categorization or containment, just as his poetry uses and subverts canonical forms such as the sonnet to create both formal and rhetorical puzzles. Like many in these past months, he knows how to inhabit and make his own the space between flight and confinement. He moves fluidly, brilliantly, and unblinkingly in the space between word and image, between music and breath.

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Dec. 1 — Santa Barbara Museum of Art to present ‘Artificial Intelligence and Art: The Case of Harold Cohen A Conversation with Justin Underhill’ (via Zoom)

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The Santa Barbara Museum of Art will present “Artificial Intelligence and Art: The Case of Harold Cohen A Conversation with Justin Underhill” (via Zoom) at 4 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 1.

This talk explores the work of Harold Cohen (1928 – 2016), a pioneer of art made by artificial intelligence. Cohen taught for decades at UC San Diego and wrote the art-making computer program AARON in the 1970s.

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Dec. 3 — Santa Barbara Museum of Art to present ‘What Matters is Boldness: Mexican Modernism in Context’

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The Santa Barbara Museum of Art will present “What Matters is Boldness: Mexican Modernism in Context” Art Matters Lecture (via Zoom) with Mark Castro, Jorge Baldor Curator of Latin American Art, Dallas Museum of Art at 3 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 3.

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Dec. 13 — Santa Barbara Museum of Art to present ‘Kwame S. Brathwaite in Conversation (via Zoom)’

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The Santa Barbara Museum of Art will present “Kwame S. Brathwaite in Conversation (via Zoom)” at 11 a.m Sunday, Dec. 13.

Kwame Samori Brathwaite speaks with Charles Wylie, SBMA Curator of Photography and New Media, about the groundbreaking art of his father, the renowned photographer Kwame Brathwaite. With family and friends, Kwame Brathwaite created a multi-faceted cultural movement in 1950s and 60s Harlem from which the affirmative personal and political statement “Black is Beautiful” arose. Inspired by Pan-Africanism and attuned to the central role of mass media in contemporary society, Brathwaite forged a new visual and cultural identity for African Americans via photography, fashion, and performance whose influence is still being felt. 

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Oct. 10 — SBMA presents ‘Sketching in the Galleries’

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SANTA BARBARA — Santa Barbara Museum of Art to present: “Sketching in the Galleries,” 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 10, 1130 State St., Santa Barbara. All skill levels are invited to experience the tradition of sketching from original works of art in current exhibitions.…

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Oct. 17 — Santa Barbara Museum of Art to present ‘Space and Wonder: A Conversation with Russell Crotty’

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SANTA BARBARA — Santa Barbara Museum of Art to present: “Space and Wonder: A Conversation with Russell Crotty,” starting at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 17, 1130 State St., Santa Barbara. Artist and amateur astronomer Russell Crotty, whose work is featured in The Observable…

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Nov. 10 — Studio Sunday & Bilingual Tours of Alfredo Ramos Martínez: On Paper

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SANTA BARBARA — The Santa Barbara Museum of Art will present “Studio Sunday & Bilingual Tours of Alfredo Ramos Martínez: On Paper” from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 10 at 1130 State St., Santa Barbara Studio Sunday Visitors of all ages are welcome to participate…

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Nov. 21 — Santa Barbara Museum of Art to present Writing in the Galleries

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SANTA BARBARA — Santa Barbara Museum of Art to present: “Writing in the Galleries,” starting at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 21, 1130 State St., Santa Barbara. Writers of all levels are invited to participate in this informal exploration of the Museum’s galleries as…

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Sept. 8 — Santa Barbara Museum of Art to present ‘Hope Kingsley on Salt & Silver: Early Photography, 1840–1860’

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SANTA BARBARA — The Santa Barbara Museum of Art will present “Hope Kingsley on Salt & Silver: Early Photography, 1840–1860” at 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 8 at 1130 State St., Santa Barbara. A foremost expert on the history of photography’s first decades, Hope Kingsley, Curator,…

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Sept. 12 — SBMA presents ‘Sketching in the Galleries’

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SANTA BARBARA — Santa Barbara Museum of Art to present: “Sketching in the Galleries,” 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 12, 1130 State St., Santa Barbara. All skill levels are invited to experience the tradition of sketching from original works of art in current exhibitions.…

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Oct. 6 — Santa Barbara Museum of Art to present ‘Art Kitchen/Science Studio: Salt’

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SANTA BARBARA — Santa Barbara Museum of Art to present: “Art Kitchen/Science Studio: Salt,” starting at 1p.m. Sunday, Oct. 6, 1130 State St., Santa Barbara. In Art Kitchen/Science Studio, Teaching Artists use works of art from the Museum’s collection as a starting point…

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Aug. 11 — Santa Barbara Museum of Art to present ‘Reimagine Hiroshige’s woodblock print’ in the next FREE Studio Sunday

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SANTA BARBARA — The Santa Barbara Museum of Art will present “Reimagine Hiroshige’s woodblock print” from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 11 at the 1130 State St., Santa Barbara. Visitors of all ages are welcome to participate in this hands-on…

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Aug. 17 — Santa Barbara Museum of Art to present ‘Guided Meditation in Chris Kallmyer: Ensemble’

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SANTA BARBARA — The Santa Barbara Museum of Art will present “Guided Meditation in Chris Kallmyer: Ensemble” from 10:30 to 11 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 11 at the 1130 State St., Santa Barbara. Gael Belden, educator with UCLA’s Mindful Awareness Research Center…

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Santa Barbara Museum of Art update for June 17 — Exhibitions and Events at SBMA: July – September 2019

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1130 State Street, Santa Barbara, CA. Open Tuesday-Sunday 11 am – 5 pm, Free Thursday Evening 5 – 8 pm 805.963.4364 www.sbma.net   Enjoy half-price admission!   Exhibition Openings Studio of Mathew Brady. Mathew Brady, Sixth Corps Staff Officers, Winter…

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July 13 — Santa Barbara Museum of Art to present ‘Guided Meditation in Chris Kallmyer: Ensemble’

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SANTA BARBARA — The Santa Barbara Museum of Art will present “Guided Meditation in Chris Kallmyer: Ensemble” at 11 a.m. Saturday, July 13 at the 1130 State St., Mary Craig Auditorium, Santa Barbara. Gael Belden, educator with UCLA’s Mindful Awareness Research…

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July 21 — Santa Barbara Museum of Art to present ‘Art Kitchen/Science Studio: Today’s Special’

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SANTA BARBARA — The Santa Barbara Museum of Art will present “Art Kitchen/Science Studio: Today’s Special” at 3 and 3:30 p.m. Sunday, July 21 at the 1130 State St., Santa Barbara. In Art Kitchen/Science Studio, SBMA Teaching Artists use works of…

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June 27 — SBMA presents ‘Sketching in the Galleries’

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SANTA BARBARA — Santa Barbara Museum of Art to present: “Sketching in the Galleries,” 6:30 p.m. Thursday, March 14, 1130 State St., Santa Barbara. All skill levels are invited to experience the tradition of sketching from original works of art in current exhibitions.…

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May 12 — SBMA to present ‘Studio Sunday’

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SANTA BARBARA — Santa Barbara Museum of Art to present: “Studio Sunday,” 1:30 p.m. Sunday, May 12, 1130 State St., Santa Barbara. Visitors of all ages are welcome to participate in this hands-on workshop with SBMA Teaching Artists in the Museum’s Family Resource…

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May 19 — Santa Barbara Museum of Art presents Ensemble FREE Day: A Day of All Possible Music at SBMA

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SANTA BARBARA — Santa Barbara Museum of Art to present: Ensemble FREE Day: A Day of All Possible Music at SBMA,” 1 to 4 p.m. Sunday, May 19, 1130 State St., Santa Barbara. In celebration of the opening of Chris Kallmyer: Ensemble, all…

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April 4 — SBMA presents ‘1st Thursday at SBMA, Pop-Up Opera’

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SANTA BARBARA — Santa Barbara Museum of Art to present: “1st Thursday at SBMAa,” 5:30 p.m. Thursday, April 4, 1130 State St., Santa Barbara. Pop-Up Opera Opera Santa Barbara returns to present crowd-pleasing pop-up performances in the Museum galleries. Free Location: Museum galleries…

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April 7 — SBMA presents ‘Emotion and Belonging — A New Look at Literati Aesthetics in China’

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Public Lecture by Peter Sturman SANTA BARBARA — Santa Barbara Museum of Art to present: “Emotion and Belonging — A New Look at Literati Aesthetics in China,” 2:30 p.m. Sunday, April 7, 1130 State St., Santa Barbara. In November 2018, Su Shi’s (1037–1101)…

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April 14 — SBMA to present ‘Studio Sunday’

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SANTA BARBARA — Santa Barbara Museum of Art to present: “Studio Sunday,” 1:30 p.m. Sunday, April 14, 1130 State St., Santa Barbara. Visitors of all ages are welcome to participate in this hands-on workshop with SBMA Teaching Artists in the Museum’s Family Resource…

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April 17 — SBMA presents Parallel Stories Lecture — ‘T.C. Boyle: Outside Looking In’

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SANTA BARBARA — Santa Barbara Museum of Art to present: “Parallel Stories Lecture — ‘T.C. Boyle: Outside Looking In,” 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 17, 1130 State St., Santa Barbara. Bestselling author and Santa Barbara native, T.C. Boyle returns to read from his new…

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April 18 — SBMA presents Writing in the Galleries

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SANTA BARBARA — Santa Barbara Museum of Art to present: “Writing in the Galleries,” 5:30 to 7 p.m. Thursday, April 18, 1130 State St., Santa Barbara. Writers of all levels are invited to participate in this informal exploration of the Museum’s galleries as…

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March 10 — Santa Barbara Museum of Art to present ‘Parallel Stories Lecture: Alex Espinoza Dismantling Hierarchies’

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SANTA BARBARA — The Santa Barbara Museum of Art to present ” Parallel Stories Lecture: Alex Espinoza — Dismantling Hierarchies,” at 2:30 p.m. Sunday, March 10 at 1130 State St., Santa Barbara. Described by Sandra Cisneros as “capable of renewing one’s faith in…

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March 14 — SBMA presents ‘Mandelring Quartet’

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SANTA BARBARA — Santa Barbara Museum of Art to present: “Mandelring Quartet’,” 7:30 p.m. Thursday, March 14, 1130 State St., Santa Barbara. Formed in 1983 in the German wine region in Neustadt an der Weinstrasse, three Schmidt siblings—Sebastian, Nanette and Bernhard—join with violist…

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March 14 — SBMA presents ‘Sketching in the Galleries’

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SANTA BARBARA — Santa Barbara Museum of Art to present: “Sketching in the Galleries,” 6:30 p.m. Thursday, March 14, 1130 State St., Santa Barbara. All skill levels are invited to experience the tradition of sketching from original works of art in current exhibitions.…

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March 21 — SBMA presents ‘Writing in the Galleries’

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SANTA BARBARA — Santa Barbara Museum of Art to present: “Writing in the Galleries,” 5:30 p.m. Thursday, March 21, 1130 State St., Santa Barbara. Writers of all levels are invited to participate in this informal exploration of the Museum’s galleries as an impetus…

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Feb. 23 — Santa Barbara Museum of Art to present ‘California Dreaming: A Lecture by Dylan Turk on Frank Lloyd Wright and the Architecture of Southern California’

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SANTA BARBARA — The Santa Barbara Museum of Art to present “California Dreaming: A Lecture by Dylan Turk on Frank Lloyd Wright and the Architecture of Southern California,” from 2 to 3:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 23, Dylan Turk is an…

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Feb. 24 — Santa Barbara Museum of Art to present ‘The Erotic Art of Japan’s Ukiyo?e Masters in a Comparative Context Lecture by Ellis Tinios’

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SANTA BARBARA — The Santa Barbara Museum of Art to present “The Erotic Art of Japan’s Ukiyo?e Masters in a Comparative Context Lecture by Ellis Tinios,” 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 24. All of Japan’s great “floating world” (ukiyo-e) print artists—Moronobu,…

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Santa Barbara Museum of Art update for Dec. 14

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SANTA BARBARA — The Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1130 State St., Santa Barbara, announces the following exhibits. Exhibition Openings A Brilliant Spectrum: Recent Gifts of Color Photography to the Collection January 27 – May 5, 2019 Representing a broad…

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Dec. 6 — FREE Art and Music at SBMA during the next 1st Thursday

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SANTA BARBARA — Santa Barbara Museum of Art to present: Thursday, September 6 1st Thursday at SBMA 5 – 5:45 pm     Youth Opera Performance The Santa Barbara Youth Opera performs selections from the Benjamin Britten collection of old English songs “Ceremony of Carols,” as…

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Dec. 15 — SBMA presents one-day workshop ‘All Wrapped Up: The Art of Giving’

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SANTA BARBARA — Santa Barbara Museum of Art to present the one-day workshop “All Wrapped Up: The Art of Giving.” This one-day workshop provides the opportunity for children to gain inspiration from works in the Museum’s collection and create handmade cards, prints, ornaments, and…

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Nov. 1 — Santa Barbara Museum of Art to present 1st Thursdays

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SANTA BARBARA — Santa Barbara Museum of Art to present: 1st Thursday at SBMA Thursday, September Nov. 1, featuring:   Pop-Up Opera 5:30 – 6:30 pm Opera Santa Barbara returns to present another crowd-pleasing pop-up performance. Location: Museum galleries   Westmont Chamber Singers 6:30 –…

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Oct. 11 — Santa Barbara Museum of Art to present ‘A Kind of Song: Reading with Dana Gioia’

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SANTA BARBARA — The Santa Barbara Museum of Art will present “A Kind of Song: Reading with Dana Gioia” from 5:30 to 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 11 at the Mary Craig Auditorium, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1130 State St., Santa Barbara. Free…

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Oct. 18 — Santa Barbara Museum of Art to present Parker Quartet

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SANTA BARBARA — The Santa Barbara Museum of Art  will present the Parker Quartet at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 18 at the Mary Craig Auditorium, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1130 State St., Santa Barbara. Inspiring performances, luminous sound, and exceptional musicianship are the…

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Oct. 25 — Santa Barbara Museum of Art presents ‘Sketching in the Galleries’

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SANTA BARBARA — The Santa Barbara Museum of Artwill present “Sketching in the Galleries” from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 25 at 1130 State St., Santa Barbara. All skill levels are invited to experience the tradition of sketching from original works of art.…

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Santa Barbara Museum of Art update for July 13

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Santa Barbara Museum of Art — August – October 2018 events 1130 State St., Santa Barbara. Open Tuesday-Sunday 11 am – 5 pm, Free Thursday Evening 5 – 8 pm 805.963.4364 www.sbma.net   Enjoy half-price admission in 2018!   Exhibition Opening   Childe…

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Aug. 2 — Create a still life with tempera paint at the next FREE Family 1st Thursday at Santa Barbara Museum of Art

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Thursday, August 2, 5:30 – 7:30 pm Family 1st Thursday Bring the whole family and enjoy 1st Thursday together in SBMA’s Family Resource Center. Museum Teaching Artists assist families in creating special exhibition-based art projects. Afterwards, enjoy the galleries until 8…

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Santa Barbara Museum of Art update for June 13

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Enjoy half-price admission in 2018! Exhibition Opening André Derain, Still Life with Pumpkin (La Citrouille), 1939. Oil on canvas. SBMA, Bequest of Wright S. Ludington.   Fauvism to Fascism July 8 – November 11, 2018   The tumultuous period between the…

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Santa Barbara Museum of Art update for April 13

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Enjoy half-price admission in 2018!   Exhibition Openings   Richard Dunlap, Summer Nocturne, 1977. Tar paper with lacquer and silver leaf. SBMA, Gift of Friends of the Artist.   Summer Nocturne: Works on Paper from the 1970s June 10 – September…

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Santa Barbara Museum of Art update for Feb. 14

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Santa Barbara Museum of Art 1130 State Street, Santa Barbara, CA. Open Tuesday-Sunday 11 am – 5 pm, Free Thursday Evening 5 – 8 pm 805.963.4364 www.sbma.net ½ Price Admission starting March 1   Exhibitions On View   Harold Edgerton, Bullet Through…

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Through Feb. 10 — SBMA to present ‘Paths of Gold: Japanese Landscape and Narrative Paintings from the Collection’

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SANTA BARBARA — The Santa Barbara Museum of Art will present “Paths of Gold: Japanese Landscape and Narrative Paintings from the Collection” on view through Feb. 10 at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1140 State St., Santa Barbara. This exhibition examines the aesthetics of…

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Feb. 10 — Santa Barbara Museum of Art to present ‘Art Kitchen/Science Studio: Edible Flowers’

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SANTA BARBARA — The  Santa Barbara Museum of Art will present “Art Kitchen/Science Studio: Edible Flowers.” Session I: 2 – 3 pm Session II: 3:30 – 4:30 pm In Art Kitchen/Science Studio, Teaching Artists use works of art from the Museum’s…

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Feb. 3 — Santa Barbara Museum of Art to present ‘Reading and Conversation: Maggie Nelson’

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SANTA BARBARA — The Santa Barbara Museum of Art will present “Reading and Conversation: Maggie Nelson — Parallel Stories Lecture Series” at 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 3 Maggie Nelson is a writer forging a new mode of nonfiction. Her writing resists categorization—her books span…

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Jan. 13 — Be inspired by the work of Manual Álvarez Bravo at the next FREE Studio Sunday at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art

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Sunday, January 13, 1:30 – 4:30 pm Studio Sunday Visitors of all ages are welcome to participate in this hands-on workshop with SBMA Teaching Artists in the Museum’s Family Resource Center. Each month explore a different medium, including clay, metal,…

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