David Adey: Sacrificial Bodies
As the first comprehensive mid-career survey of San Diego artist , this exhibition traces more than 25 years of a creative practice defined by a persistent exploration of what it […]
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Cat Gunn: if only by the light of a new moon
Cat Gunn’s first solo museum exhibition, if only by the light of a new moon, explores the complex terrain of inherited memory and the seemingly impossible nostalgia for a home that one has never known through materials including fabric, ceramics, and cyanotypes. This experience, familiar to immigrants, first-generation children, and anyone displaced by colonialism, war, […]
Clearly Indigenous: Native Visions Reimagined in Glass
Contemporary glass becomes a powerful vessel for Indigenous knowledge, identity, and innovation in Clearly Indigenous: Native Visions Reimagined in Glass, on view June 27–September 20, 2026 at Mingei International Museum. This groundbreaking traveling exhibition brings together approximately 120 works by 29 Native American artists, four Indigenous Pacific Rim artists from New Zealand and Australia, and […]
Cecil Beaton’s Fashionable World
Photographer, fashion illustrator, Oscar-winning costume designer, social caricaturist, and writer Cecil Beaton (1904–1980) was an extraordinary force in the twentieth-century British and American creative scenes. This is the first exhibition dedicated to Beaton’s fashion and portrait photography, which he elevated into an art form. This exhibition showcases Beaton at his most triumphant – from shaping the public […]
25th Annual Paper Theatre Festival
Tiny stages tell big stories at the 25th Annual Paper Theatre Festival Exhibition, on view July 14–September 27, 2026 at Geisel Library on the UC San Diego campus during the […]
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Cafés and Cabarets: The Spectacular Art of Toulouse-Lautrec
Known for his beguiling portraits of Paris nightlife and the unvarnished local characters of Montmartre, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec was born into an aristocratic family in the South of France in […]