SANTA BARBARA — The Santa Barbara Museum of Art’s “Art Matters Lecture” explores “The Past, Future, and Present of the Clyfford Still Museum” at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 5.
The event features a lecture with Joyce Tsai, Director, Clyfford Still Museum.
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.
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.
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.
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…
SANTA BARBARA — Santa Barbara Museum of Art to present: Thursday, September 6 1st Thursday at SBMA Alexei Jawlensky, Sorrow, 1928. Oil wax medium on cardboard. SBMA, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Robert B. Baird. 5:30 – 7:30 pm Family 1st Thursday Bring…
