
San Diego Museum of Art 2010 promises to be an exciting year. New installations of the American art galleries open January 9th (1st phase) and January 23rd (2nd phase). Art of Elan performs on January 12th. Celebrate a new year at the Museum.

San Diego Museum of Art "Brutal Beauty: Drawings by Hugo Crosthwaite," opens on February 27th at the San Diego Museum of Art. A preview will take place on the evening of February 25th during Culture and Cocktails. Follow the link for more info. on this amazing artist.
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Official Website - Includes news, biography, and images of works by Hugo Crosthwaite

San Diego Museum of Art Our "rediscovered" Rosalba Carriera pastel earns the Museum a mention in this month's letter from the President of the Association of Art Museum Directors
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San Diego Museum of Art Sunday celebrity sighting--Greg Grunberg, who portrays Matt Parkman on the NBC series "Heroes," here to see the Museum's modern art collection. We hope he will return to see our version of "Heroes"--the exhibition "Heroes: Mortals and Myths in Ancient Greece" when it opens in May!

San Diego Museum of Art Holiday Greetings! In honor of the Christmas holiday, the Museum will be closed tomorrow, December 25. We look forward to seeing you (and all of your holiday guests) on Saturday. Ask about our family discount rate at the front desk.

San Diego Museum of Art Last minute holiday gift ideas from your Museum Store: Calder Jewelry exhibition catalogue. The Museum Store has this difficult to find publication. Come see the exhibition and take home the handsome book before they are both gone!

San Diego Museum of Art U-T's Bob Pincus reviews our Ferdinand Bol & Rembrandt exhibition and the rest of the Rembrandt-related exhibitions opening around Southern California
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Rembrandt’s “Self-portrait, Etching at a Window,” one of the artist’s iconic prints, is on view at the San Diego Museum of Art.

San Diego Museum of Art Tonight, for one night only, join Sonya Quintanilla, PhD, Curator of Asian Art, as she talks about how to identify a 3,000 year old Iranian bronze. Examples of authentic 11th-century BCE bronzes, as well as some imposters, will be on view, at 7 pm.

San Diego Museum of Art It's the Museum's most famous painting, but have you ever wondered what there is to say about it? Come hear curator John Marciari's 15 minute ArtStop talk on "The Great Still Life: Sanchez Cotan's 'Quince, Cabbage, Melon, and Cucumber'." Today at noon.

San Diego Museum of Art The third reason you'll want to come to tommorrow's half-hour Seldom Seen lecture: It's only $5.

San Diego Museum of Art The second reason you'll want to come to tomorrow's Seldom Seen lecture: You'll get to talk to our Asian Art curator face to face.

San Diego Museum of Art The first reason you'll want to come to tomorrow's Seldom Seen lecture: You will get to see objects that are three thousand years old.

San Diego Museum of Art Tommorrow night at 7 p.m. is Seldom Seen! One of our curators takes art out of the vault for one night only for up close viewing and discussion.

By Alexander Jarman, Public Programs ManagerThe Museum has installed a lot of exhibitions in the past year and each one of them came with a fresh coat of paint. Wall color is an important component of our gallery spaces- it has the power to enhance works of art or detract from them. To learn a b...




















