Oceanside Museum of Art presents Sense of Wonder, a playful and inventive exhibition by artist and maker Aaron Kramer. Featuring kinetic sculptures, automata, and drawing machines built from salvaged materials, the show invites audiences to engage with art as motion, mechanism, and discovery. Rooted in curiosity and hands-on experimentation, Kramer’s work blurs the line between […]

The California Center for the Arts, Escondido presents Unrolling Paradise, an exhibition by interdisciplinary artist Maryam Bayat that examines the Persian garden as a living design tradition carried through textiles, memory, and everyday objects. Working at the intersection of craft and design, Bayat transforms traditional Persian rugs into sculptural forms, including furniture, abstract trees, and […]

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 1864. Growing up as a child with a disability that caused his legs to stop developing, Toulouse-Lautrec turned to drawing rather than the sports his […]

The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego hosts the West Coast debut of Giants, a landmark exhibition featuring more than 130 works by nearly 40 Black diasporic artists from Africa, Europe, the Caribbean, and the United States. Drawn from the personal collection of Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys, the show explores themes of Black joy, […]

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, […]