The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego has made two major staff changes. After a decade at the museum, Jill Dawsey will be promoted from curator to senior curator, and Isabel Casso will join the institution as assistant curator. Dawsey is the curator of the museum’s current survey of pioneering Chicana artist Yolanda M. López, who died in September. That exhibition explores how López ...
Diego Rivera’s dream of an urban oasis of traditional Mexican art has finally been realized 80 years after its conception. Dubbed “the City of Arts,” the 13-building complex opened this weekend at the Anahuacalli Museum. With around 64,600 square feet of gardens, workshops, and performance and exhibition spaces to form the micro museum-city, it is located in the Mexico City neighborhood of Coyoacán, according ...
New works of art to catch this month in San Diego by Christina Kim, El Anatsui, Ivonne Garcia, Chitra Gopalakrishnan with The House of Resilience, and youth at MOPA. Christina Kim: 'liquid2solid' On view at the Mingei International Museum beginning Sept. 3, 2021 I should probably just list the entirety of the Mingei's architectural and design transformation as one of the works of art you ...
Art, art studios, inspiring gardens and creative homes galore will be on display in La Jolla and Pacific Beach during the San Diego Coastal Art Studios Tour on Saturday, Sept. 18. The free one-day, self-guided tour will feature more than 30 artists in six locations — three each in La Jolla and PB.Artists Dot Renshaw, Cherry Sweig and Leah Higgins have been working on ...
Experts say parents and teachers shouldn’t hyper-focus on concerns about learning losses for students during this pandemic period. Instead, educators should use arts and music to help students overcome anxieties about returning to in-person learning. Meanwhile, a North County non-profit brings mobile showers to people experiencing homelessness throughout San Diego County. Plus, the purchase of dozens of San Diego apartment complexes by a New ...
Too often, when the San Diego Museum of Art hosts fund-raising events that feature alcohol, guests drink more than they should and grope female workers, a former museum attendant said in an online complaint that has drawn support from hundreds of people in the past few days.Instead of protecting employees, Zelina Gaytan wrote, museum officials would blame their staff and resist suggestions that specific ...
SAN DIEGO (KGTV) -- The Biden administration recently announced $1 billion worth of student loan debt was being canceled. The new ruling affects 72,000 students.Some San Diego students at a shuttered for-profit university said they were not included in that list, but are hopeful for the future.Sanders Fabares is a graduate of the Art Institute. ABC 10News first interviewed him in 2019 after it ...
In a bid to create a local arts institution at the leading edge of experimentation, inclusivity and cultural conversation, two long-established local museums — San Diego Art Institute in Balboa Park and Lux Art Institute in Encinitas — announced their merger Sunday, March 14 to become The Institute of Contemporary Art, San Diego.Launching in September, the new ICA San Diego will present a diverse ...
SAN DIEGO (KGTV)-- The San Diego Museum of Art's 46th Annual young Art Art Exhibition will feature artwork from the next generation of emerging San Diego artists. Original student artwork created by Kindergarten through 12th grade students in the county will be on display from March 26 – May 9.The theme for the biennial student exhibition, Young Art 2021 focuses on the environment and ...
Our weekend arts picks include site-specific visual art installations, outdoor works, a brand new play and two drive-in classical music performances to sweeten up your weekend. Credit: Michael James Armstrong Above: Detail of sculptural materials gathered from the Bread and Salt site and Logan Heights neighborhood, used by artist Joshua Moreno in a new exhibition at ICE Gallery, opening Friday, Feb. 12, 2021. We have ...
