Celia Álvarez Muñoz: Breaking the Binding Spanning forty years, this exhibition is the first career retrospective of Conceptual artist Celia Álvarez Muñoz (b. 1937, El Paso, TX). Featuring over thirty-five […]
Jean-Michel Basquiat’s contributions to the history of art and his explorations of multifaceted cultural phenomena––including music, the Black experience, pop culture, Black American sports figures, literature, and other sources––will be […]
In Post-Columbian Futurism, one of their largest and most ambitious projects to date and their first individual exhibition in San Diego, brothers Jamex and Einar De La Torre (b. 1960 & […]
This comic-book-infused girl-gang thriller chronicles the adventures and mysterious disappearance of Kalki, a young woman who may or may not be the final avatar of Vishnu. Has Kalki come to rid the world of demons and evil or just to make high school a hell of a lot more interesting? Produced in partnership with Mysterious Galaxy […]
The San Diego International Fringe Festival brings the beautiful, the bizarre and the unexpected to America’s Finest City. In 2018, this award-winning venture included Family Fringe, Emerging Fringe, Visual Fringe, Street Theatre, and the World’s First Bi-National Fringe! Fringe Festivals have been established throughout the world to provide an opportunity for artists to showcase their […]
The Old Globe will host the San Diego Black Artist Collective for the 2nd annual residency, following the highly successful Black Lady Showcase of 2022. Join an exciting program including: BARBEQUE Barbecue centers around the O’Mallerys, a dysfunctional group of siblings who come together for a park barbeque in order to stage an emergency intervention for […]
Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-1879) is one of the most innovative and influential photographers of all time. She pioneered the close-up and took photographs deliberately out of focus because she found them more beautiful that way. MOPA is pleased to be the first venue in the United States to exhibit this extensive collection from a pioneering portraitist […]
The Lipinsky Family San Diego Jewish Arts Festival JFEST returns even stronger with new partnerships and venues that go from Balboa Park to Downtown, to La Jolla, Encinitas, and Carlsbad, reaching different corners of the county through great artistic programming. The 2023 edition will celebrate three consecutive decades of performances that explore Jewish history, people, […]
Based in Los Angeles, BODYTRAFFIC uses the creative spirit of the city it calls home to fulfill its mission of delivering performances that inspire audiences simply to love dance. Since its inception in 2007, the company has held its place at the forefront of the concert dance world with a compelling style that “suggests invention, […]
Frida Kahlo: Through the Lens of Nickolas Muray, an exhibition of photographic portraits of Frida Kahlo, provides an intimate look at Mexico’s most prolific and well-known female artist. In May 1931 photographer Nickolas Muray (1892-1965) traveled to Mexico by the invitation of his friend, artist Miguel Covarrubias, where he met Frida Kahlo (1907-1954), a woman […]
Local artist Carlo Miranda (Filipino-American, b. 1988) showcases ten recent paintings in this intimate exhibition. Miranda’s works were first exhibited in this museum in 2020 as part of a display responding to the pandemic. Working as a registered nurse in San Diego during this time had a profound impact on his use of painting as […]
Duke Windsor’s work will be exhibited in a special cross-border collaborative project facilitated by the city of Tijuana and El Instituto Municipal de Arte y Cultura (IMAC). Contemporary Culinary Today, in the 21st Century, ordinary objects from the kitchen, like condiment bottles in the sunlight, or even very stylized paintings of desserts, as in the […]
