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Math + Art
March 30 – August 24, 2025
Geometry, numbers, and graphs are means to understand nature and help overcome our human inconsistencies and emotions. The artists in this exhibition, however, infuse these same tools with messiness, warmth, and humor, not to mention elegance and wonder.
Sea of Ice: Echoes of the European Romantic Era
February 2 – August 24, 2025
Inspired by James Casebere’s photograph, Sea of Ice (2014), itself based on 19th-century German artist Caspar David Friedrich’s painting of the same name, this exhibition includes a variety of SBMA works and a major loaned video that reflect the Romantic era’s revolutionary emphasis on nature as a symbol of human feeling, sensation, and intuition.
Modern Life: A Global Artworld, 1850-1950
Ongoing
We live with linked economies and global instantaneous communication. Change is constant. People are on the go. Modern life with its incessant movement began in the mid-19th century, as undersea telegraph cables, railroads, steamships, and colonial powers encircled the world. These same changes created a global art world with centers in cities such as Paris, Mexico City, and New York.
Dario Robleto: The Signal
December 8, 2024 – May 25, 2025
Dario Robleto: The Signal features the artist’s feature-length film Ancient Beacons Long for Notice (2024) and a selection of artworks that relate to his dazzlingly inventive mining of the history of science and technology.
Accretion
September 29, 2024 – April 20, 2025
Like the pearl that forms from the accretion of materials over time, the works in this exhibition contain the aggregated experiences of the artists—women living and working in the States but with roots in Argentina, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Guatemala, Mexico and Peru.
Portrait of Mexico Today
Ongoing
Portrait of Mexico Today is one of the only intact murals painted by David Alfaro Siqueiros while he was a political exile in Los Angeles in 1932.
Highlights of East Asian Art
Ongoing
The refreshed and newly configured Sterling Morton, Campbell, and Gould Galleries next to Ludington Court showcase a selection of works from China, Japan, and Korea, drawn from the Museum’s extensive permanent Asian Art collection and organized by SBMA Elizabeth Atkins Curator of Asian Art Susan Tai.
Highlights of South and Southeast Asian Art, Himalayas
Ongoing
Made from a variety of materials: clay, wood, metal, stone, textile, and paper, these works provide a broad view of the artistic expressions and devotional practices in India and their development and transformation in the Southeast Asian countries of Thailand, Cambodia, Indonesia, and the Himalayan lands of Nepal and Tibet.
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