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Santa Barbara Museum of Art presents "Modern Life: A Global Artworld, 1850 – 1950"
December 10, 2024

Photo of Dario Robleto's American Seabed artwork, featuring unconventional materials like fossilized whale ear bones and butterflies, whose antennae are crafted from stretched audiotape recordings of Bob Dylan’s “Desolation Row"

Santa Barbara Museum of Art Presents exhibition "Dario Robleto: The Signal"

graphic of five images illustrating event activities including crafting, a woman in a headdress, and parade goers in the street, with the Santa Barbara Museum of Art and Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara logos at the top

35th Annual Día de los Muertos Celebration at SBMA and MCASB
Sunday, October 20
11 am – 4 pm

Santa Barbara Museum of Art Presents "In the Making: Contemporary Art at SBMA"

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Santa Barbara Museum of Art Presents "A Legacy of Giving: The Lady Leslie and Lord Paul Ridely - Tree Collection"

In the News

An Intimate Autobiography of Robert Rauschenberg - Hyperallergic

October 2, 2024

Cruz in Control - Santa Barbara Magazine

November 30, 2023

Review: James Castle Made Thousands of Resolute Drawings with Soot and Spit - Los Angeles Times

August 23, 2023

Domestic Aesthetics With ‘Scenes from a Marriage,’ the Artistic Marriage of Ed and Nancy Kienholz Is Brought Vividly to Life at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art - Santa Barbara Independent

March 5, 2023

Getting the Run of the Joint: Joan Tanner’s Field Day at S.B. Museum of Art - Santa Barbara Independent

February 23, 2023