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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.
Stillness
November 17, 2024 – March 16, 2025
Simply installed in the Santa Barbara Museum of Art’s Photography Gallery, Stillness invites contemplation and introspection via a select and small group of beautifully composed and printed images.
Accretion
September 29, 2024 – April 13, 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.
Friends and Lovers
September 22, 2024 – March 2, 2025
Drawing on artworks in the SBMA collection and loans from artists, this exhibition explores art about LGTBQ+ friendship, companionship, solidarity, and desire.
In the Making: Contemporary Art at SBMA
July 21, 2024 – March 9, 2025
Relevance is a common word these days for museums as they work to catch up with their audiences and the ever-changing world we live in, and one sure way to stay relevant is to acquire and display work by contemporary artists who are pushing the envelope with their ingenuity.
Moving Pictures: Videos by Liliana Porter/Ana Tiscornia and Christian Marclay
June 16, 2024 – January 12, 2025
Deceptively simple and far removed from the seamless computer generated images seen in commercial filmmaking, these two videos (on view for the first time at SBMA) re-orient the viewing experience into one more intimate, complex and even mysterious.
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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