Atelier Series Continues with Stranger Than Fiction   October 2010

SBMA Announces Addition of Harold Williams to Director's Advisory Board   October 2010

Reframing America   September 18, 2010 - January 23, 2011

Chaotic Harmony: Contemporary Korean Photography   July 3 - September 19, 2010

Chaotic Harmony: Contemporary Korean Photography (Korean release)   July 3 - September 19, 2010

SBMA's Atelier Series Kicks off with Masterpieces, Music, and Movement   April 2010

From India and Beyond: Gifts from Stephen Hulyer and the Pal Family Collection   March 6 - June 6, 2010

Delacroix to Monet: Masterpieces of 19th-Century Painting from the Walters Art Museum    January 30 - May 30, 2010

2009 Press Releases

Diana Thater: Butterflies and Other People October 24, 2009 - January 31, 2010

Noble Tombs at Mawangdui: Art and Life in the Changsha Kingdom, China (3rd Century BCE - 1st Century CE)  (Chinese Version) September 19 - December 13 , 2009

SBMA Announces New Chief Curator  September 1, 2009

California Calling: Works from Santa Barbara Collections, 1948 - 2008  Part I: July 18 - December 27, 2009, Part II: September 12 - December 20, 2009

Corot in California  July 4 - October 11, 2009

Brett Weston: Out of the Shadow  May 2 - August 16, 2009

Yinka Shonibare, MBE: A Flying Machine for Every Man, Woman and Child and Other Astonishing Works  March 14 - June 21, 2009

2008 Press Releases

Of Life and Loss: The Polish Photographs of Roman Vishniac and Jeffrey Gusky  October 25, 2008 - March 15, 2009

Ten: Gifts of SBMA PhotoFutures  September 27, 2008 - April 5, 2009

Picasso on Paper: Drawings and Prints from the Permanent Collection (1899-1967)  September 6, 2008 - February 22, 2009

SBMA Welcomes New Curator of Contemporary Art  July 2008

Made in Hollywood: Photographs from the John Kobal Foundation  July 12 - October 5, 2008

Explore the "I" Word at the June 19th Nights  June 2008

A Tibet Expedition 1938: Selected Gifts from Two Explorers  April 12 - August 17, 2008

Nights at SBMA Toasts a Fifth Season of Art, Music, and Martinis  April 2008

SBMA Springs into the Season with Re-Opening of Children's Gallery  March 2008

Over Rainbows and Down Rabbit Holes: The Art of Children's Books  March 15 - June 15, 2008

Oblivion: David Maisel  January 26 - April 27, 2008

Meditations in Silver: Photographic Studies by Paul Caponigro  January 26 - April 6, 2008

2007 Press Releases

SBMA Announces Appointment of New Director  December 2007

Ridley-Tree Gift Honors Museum Director  October 2007

Museum and Police Unite to Provide Youth an Alternative to Streets    October 2007

Everyday Luxury: Chinese Silks of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911)  November 10, 2007 - February 17, 2008

Identities  Opens November 3, 2007

Oliver Gagliani: Scores of Abstraction  October 13, 2007 - January 13, 2008

Museum Announcement Regarding Diana du Pont  August 2007

Made in Santa Barbara: Contemporary Photographs  July 1- October 7, 2007

A Gift for Santa Barbara: The Dwight and Winifred Vedder Collection  April 28 - December 2007

Ansel Adams over Time: Recent Photographic Acquisitions  April 7 - June 24, 2007

Tamayo: A Modern Icon Reinterpreted  February 17 - May 27, 2007

An Unobserved Life: Folk Photography by Joe Schwartz  January 13 - April 1, 2007

The New Modern: Pre- and Post-War Japanese Photography  January 13 - April 1, 2007

2006 Press Releases

Artists at Continent's End: The Monterey Peninsula Art Colony, 1875-1907  October 21, 2006 - January 21, 2007

Alice Burr: A California Pictorialist Rediscovered  October 21, 2006 - January 7, 2007

Lost and Found: Photographs from the Dennis Reed Collection  August 12 - October 15, 2006 (Part 1) and October 21, 2006 - January 7, 2007 (Part II)

Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China  July 1 - September 17, 2006

Behind the Scenes with Drawings: Renaissance to Rococo  April 29 - July 9, 2006

Taking Root: A Century of Migrant Workers in California  April 22 - August 6, 2006

Taking Root: A Century of Migrant Workers in California  Associated Events

Renaissance to Rococo: Masterpieces from the Collection of the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art  February 11 - May 28, 2006

Masterpieces of Chinese Lacquer from the Mike Healy Collection  January 14 - April 16, 2005

2005 Press Releases

The Art of Ancient Glass: The Richard and Lois Gunther Collection  October 15, 2005 - January 2, 2006

Portraits of Place October 8, 2005 - January 2, 2006

Picture Stories: The Art of Europe and the Americas September 10, 2005

First Seen: Portraits of the World's Peoples (1840-1880) August 13, 2005 - January 8, 2006

A Tribute to Paul Mills: A Life in Art Remembered July 16 - October 2, 2005

Garbo's Garbos June 4 - August 21, 2005

2004 Press Releases

The Art of David Ireland: The Way Things Are December 11, 2004 - March 13, 2005

Matta on Paper:  The John Todd Figi Collection  October 9, 2004 - February 6, 2005

Agustin Victor Casasola: Mirada y memoria (Glance and Memory)  September 26, 2004 - January 9, 2005

Heartland: Paintings by Bo Bartlett, 1978-2002 -March 24, 2004

Art of the Americas:  Latin America and the United States, 1800 to Now! - March 15, 2004

American Grain:  Arthur Dove, Marsden Hartley, John Marin, Georgia O’Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz -February 4, 2004

2003 Press Releases

Margrethe Mather & Edward Weston: A Passionate Collaboration - November 18, 2003

Worshiping the Ancestors: Chinese Commemorative Portraits- October 22, 2003

Richard Ross Photography: Gathering Light, Fovea, and Leelacyd - May 21, 2003

Risking the Abstract: Mexican Modernism and the Art of Gunther Gerzso- July 12 - October 19, 2003

photoGENEsis: Opus 2 - December 12, 2002

2002 Press Releases

David Alfaro Siqueiros: Portrait of Mexico Today (1932)- October 20, 2002

Ruth Harriet Louise & Glamour Photography- July 27 - October 6, 2002

Edward Hopper and Urban Realism- May 11 - September 15, 2002

Desire and Devotion: Art from India, Nepal, and Tibet- March 2 - June 2, 2002

2001 Press Releases

Pirkle Jones: Sixty Years in Photography- December 8, 2001 - March 31, 2002

Destined for Hollywood: The Art of Dan Sayre Groesbeck- August 25 - November 25, 2001

Focus on the Figure: Southern California Artists 1850 - 1950- August 11 - November 11, 2001

Every Picture A Story: American Illustration from the Collection of the Delaware Art Museum- July 14 - October 14, 2001

Poetic Natures- June 9 - September 23, 2001

Photographic Odysseys: Gifts from the Arthur & Yolanda Steinman and Bruce and Nancy Berman Collections- May 5 - August 12, 2001

From the Sun King to the Royal Twilight: Painting in Eighteenth-Century France from the Musee de Picardie, Amiens- April 22 - June 17, 2001

Master Drawings from the Collection of Alfred Moir- February 17 - April 22, 2001

Dual Visions of the American West: Photographs by Macduff Everton and David Muench- January 20 - March 25, 2001

2000 Press Releases

From Azaceta to Zuniga: 20th-Century Latin American Art- November 4 - December 31, 2000

Netsuke: The Japanese Art of Miniature Carving- September 9 - November 19, 2000

Nam June Paik: Video Art Pioneer- June 10 - October 8, 2000

Camera Over Hollywood: Photographs by John Swope- June 10 - August 13, 2000

Mastering the Medium: Woodcuts- May 27 - August 20, 2000

Of Battle and Beauty: Felice Beato's Photographs of China- February 27 - May 21, 2000

Precious Cargo: Treasures of the China Trade- February 27 - May 21, 2000

Modernism in the Americas: A Dialogue Among the International Avant-Gardes- February 12 - May 14, 2000

1998 Press Releases

American Photographs: The First Century- November 21, 1998 - January 31, 1999