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We are excited to announce that MCASD has received a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities!
MCASD is thrilled to have the support of @nehgov in our work towards the transformative expansion of our La Jolla flagship. Visit the link below for more information on this prestigious award!
#NEHGrant
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On January 16, artist Nour Mobarak will present 𝘛𝘰𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘵𝘰𝘯𝘦, a 16-channel sound installation and performance within Nancy Lupo's exhibition, 𝘚𝘤𝘳𝘪𝘱𝘵𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘗𝘢𝘨𝘦𝘢𝘯𝘵. Each piece of the composition can be heard from the sculptural benches in Lupo's 𝘖𝘱𝘦𝘯 𝘔𝘰𝘶𝘵𝘩.
The installation will remain on view through Tuesday, January 21. See you then! 😊
📷: Pablo Mason
That moment mid-tour when you fall in love with Nancy Lupo's 𝘖𝘱𝘦𝘯 𝘔𝘰𝘶𝘵𝘩 cast aluminum benches, and try to steal them without anyone noticing 🙊
📷: Stacy Keck
Get excited, next Thursday is Downtown at Sundown! 🌆
Stop by the SDSU Downtown Gallery for a collaborative art activity led by the Prison Arts Collective (PAC) from 6:15 to 7:15 PM. Participants will be guided by Teaching Artists to create a Healing Quilt, offering opportunities for self-reflection and connection. 😊
Join Associate Curator Anthony Graham this Saturday, January 11 from 11:30 am – 12:30 pm for a tour of 𝘕𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘺 𝘓𝘶𝘱𝘰: 𝘚𝘤𝘳𝘪𝘱𝘵𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘗𝘢𝘨𝘦𝘢𝘯𝘵.
Secure your spot in advance!
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📷: Stacy Keck
𝘉𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘌𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘩: 𝘈𝘳𝘵, 𝘔𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘕𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘞𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥 looks at the ways in which artists have addressed and represented the landscape.
📷: Stacy Keck
MOOD because it's Friday 💃🏾
Nancy Lupo's 𝘖𝘱𝘦𝘯 𝘔𝘰𝘶𝘵𝘩 invites viewers to sit and engage the sculpture with their bodies, and in this case, pose on the 3/4-scale cast aluminum benches!
📷: Stacy Keck
This holiday season, bring your loved ones to visit MCASD's downtown galleries ❄️
Enjoy free admission on December 24th, and celebrate with us by making pop-up holiday cards from 11:30am-2pm!
Visit www.mcasd.org/visit/hours-admissions for more information regarding MCASD's holiday hours.
📷: Mario Mesquita, Education Manager
Family and friends visiting for the holidays? MCASD welcomes you to share with them our exhibitions on view in our downtown galleries before they head home! ✈️
📷: Stacy Keck
The New Children’s Museum and the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego are partnering to give YOU the gift of Contemporary Art 🎁
Starting today through January 5, one admission ticket grants you entry to BOTH museums!
*Redeem your ticket within 7 days of initial purchase. Members, simply present your ID to enjoy this benefit.*
📷: Stacy Keck
MCASD’s Teen Advisory Group (TAG) invites museum guests to consider how we globally and locally source our news about climate change. 🌏
Join TAG this Thursday during Downtown at Sundown in a hands-on activity in editing and narrative making based on guest artist Louie Palu's visit with TAGsters earlier this year.
📷: Mario Mesquita, Education Manager
#MCASDlearn #MCASDeducation #MCASDteens
DW 68 VEN MCASD 11 by Doug Wheeler. On view as part of Phenomenal: California Light, Space, Surface, from
Sept. 25, 2011 through Feb 5, 2012 at MCASD Downtown.
Mark your calendar: Downtown at Sundown is this Thursday and the schedule is PACKED with exhibition tours, artist talks, and so much more.
Learn more > [email protected].">www.mcasd.org/[email protected].
Paraskevidekatriaphobia is the 'fear of Friday the 13th' and it's a real issue resulting in hundreds of millions in financial losses annually. People avoid marrying, travelling, or in some cases working on Friday the 13th.
Today we are asking you--art lover, Member, supporter, and arts and culture enthusiast-- to celebrate this supposedly unlucky day, and join us in raising $13,000 in just 24 hours to support another year of engaging exhibitions and public programs.
DONATE TO THE $13 on 13 CAMPAIGN TODAY > https://2070a.blackbaudhosting.com/2070a/Promotional-Contribution
Don't forget: Hollander Design Group, founded by MCASD Members Jeff Hollander and Viveca Bissonnette, have generously offered to match all gifts to the $13 on $13 campaign up to $5,000. Donate today and double your gift!
In 2013, artist Liz Larner created ix (caesura), a wall-bound sculpture currently on view at MCASD Downtown in the exhibition Bound to the Earth: Art, Materiality, and the Natural World.
Larner's work questions the traditional attributes of sculpture, such as the relationships between volume, mass, color, and form in space. In ix (caesura), a lozenge-shaped relief becomes a miniature map, both compressed and suggestive of more. The earthen material and disrupted surface evoke geological references, even as the title suggests the structure of language (caesura is a break in a line of poetry).
This week we’re sharing insider facts about MCASD’s collection related to the number 13 as we gear up for our $13 on 13 campaign. On Friday, December 13th, we're asking you--art lover, Member, supporter, and arts and culture enthusiast--to give $13 to help fund another year of exciting exhibitions and engaging public programs. Help us raise $13,000 in just 24 hours!
Don’t forget: Hollander Design Group, founded by MCASD Members Jeff Hollander and Viveca Bissonnette, have generously offered to match all gifts to the $13 on 13 campaign up to $5,000. Donate today and double your gift!
Learn more > www.mcasd.org/13on13
Image: Liz Larner, ix (caesura), 2013, ceramic, epoxy, and pigment, 18 3/8 x 32 3/8 x 12 5/8 in. (46.7 x 82.2 x 32.1 cm) Collection Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego. Museum purchase, International and Contemporary Collectors Funds, 2014.7 © Liz Larner, Courtesy Regen Projects, Los Angeles.
Acquired February 13, 2001 > Artist Rubén Ortiz Torres deals with issues revolving around the borderlands of Mexico and the United States. In a series of works that began in 1992, Ortiz Torres alters baseball caps to manipulate popular icons. Referencing youth culture's use of sport attire as a fashion accessory, he plays with the names of major league baseball teams interweaving various political and historical events. MCASD is proud to have acquired four of these works on February 13, 2001. All four works are currently on loan to the exhibition Customatismo at the Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo (MUAC) in Mexico City, which will travel to MCASD in Spring 2021.
This week we’re sharing insider facts about MCASD’s collection related to the number 13 as we gear up for our $13 on 13 campaign. On Friday, December 13th, we're asking you--art lover, Member, supporter, and arts and culture enthusiast--to give $13 to help fund another year of exciting exhibitions and engaging public programs. Help us raise $13,000 in just 24 hours!
Learn more > mcasd.org/13on13
THIS JUST IN: We are thrilled to announce that Hollander Design Group, founded by MCASD Members Jeff Hollander and Viveca Bissonnette, will once again match all gifts to the $13 on 13 campaign up to $5,000. Donate today and double your gift!
Give to the campaign today > https://2070a.blackbaudhosting.com/2070a/Promotional-Contribution
Gifted in 2013 > MCASD acquired several works by the Bulgarian-born artist Christo in 2013, including this Wrapped Portrait of Jeanne-Claude (1963), featuring his late wife and collaborator. Christo and Jeanne-Claude are best known for the monumental projects they accomplished over nearly four decades. These include the 24 1/2 mile-long Running Fence in California's Sonoma and Marin Counties (1976), the Wrapped Reichstag in Berlin (1995), and the epic-scale crowd pleaser The Gates (2005), which comprised 7,053 fabric banners that spanned the walkways of New York's Central Park.
This week we’re sharing insider facts about MCASD’s collection related to the number 13 as we gear up for our $13 on 13 campaign. On Friday, December 13th, we're asking you--art lover, Member, supporter, and arts and culture enthusiast--to give $13 to help fund another year of exciting exhibitions and engaging public programs. Help us raise $13,000 in just 24 hours!
Learn more > mcasd.org/13on13
Image: Image: Christo, Wrapped Portrait of Jeanne-Claude, 1963, oil on canvas portrait painted by Christo Javacheff, wrapped with polyethylene and rope by Christo, mounted on a black wooden board, 30 7/8 x 20 1/8 x 2 in. (78.4 x 51.1 x 5.1 cm). Collection Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego. Gift of David C. Copley Foundation, 2013.50 © Christo 1963.
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"I think that my highest hope with my work is that it acts as a mirror or reflector that is reconfigured in ways that I hope trigger thoughts and feelings that lodge inside of you, that you take with you back outside and reflect on things differently."
--Artist Nancy Lupo
Learn more about Lupo in this Q&A > https://www.mcasd.org/blog/artist-qa-nancy-lupo
Her first solo museum exhibition, Nancy Lupo: Scripts for the Pageant, is on view at MCASD through March 15, 2020.
On #GivingTuesday, we ask you to consider donating to the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego to help us continue important programs like ArtOASIS.
The ArtOASIS program promotes healing by helping individuals find value and meaning through creativity. Military members are invited to take part in a series of art classes held at the Naval Base in Point Loma and at MCASD, where they produce original works of art as a means of coping with the effects of combat-related stress. This year the program expanded to serve residents at Veterans Village of San Diego (VVSD). MCASD is a proud supporter of San Diego’s military community, and we’re honored to present a Showcase of work created by ArtOASIS participants, currently on view at MCASD Downtown through January 12, 2020.
Give today > https://2070a.blackbaudhosting.com/2070a/Promotional-Contribution
Hear artist Nancy Lupo speak at UC San Diego on Wednesday, December 4th at 6 PM. Lupo's first solo museum exhibition, Nancy Lupo: Scripts for the Pageant, is on view at MCASD through March 15, 2020.
Learn about Nancy Lupo Guest Lecture
After Thursday’s feast, come feed your soul in the galleries. Join a conversation-based tour of the new exhibitions at 2 PM today.
Image: Installation image of Bound to the Earth: Art, Materiality, and the Natural World, on view at MCASD Downtown, 2019. Photo by Stacy Keck.
México quiero conocerte: Photographs by Graciela Iturbide and Manuel Álvarez Bravo opens TONIGHT at Downtown at Sundown from 5-8 PM.
Las fotografías de Manuel Álvarez Bravo y de Graciela Iturbide serán expuestas en el Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de San Diego
Nancy Lupo: Scripts for the Pageant opens TONIGHT at Downtown at Sundown from 5-8 PM.
Activist Kelsey Daniels works to make open mics vital and safe, and Los Angeles-based artist Nancy Lupo brings a massive mouth to the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego.
Downtown at Sundown returns this Thursday with three new exhibitions, free guided tours, and An Outside Perspective talk featuring Scripps Institution of Oceanography scientist Dr. Alexander Gershunov.
Grab your friends and head downtown to explore all the Core Columbia neighborhood has to offer! It’s all happening from 5-8 PM.
More info: [email protected]">www.mcasd.org/[email protected]
New exhibitions are headed your way! Be the first to see them at Downtown at Sundown on Thursday, November 21.
Nancy Lupo: Scripts for the Pageant >
Los Angeles-based artist Nancy Lupo stages a conversation between the architecture of MCASD Downtown’s Farrell Gallery and a new sculpture, Open Mouth.
More > mcasd.org/lupo
México quiero conocerte: Photographs by Graciela Iturbide and Manuel Álvarez Bravo >
México quiero conocerte explores the intimate connection each photographer had to capturing aspects and ideas of Mexico.
More > mcasd.org/conocerte
Bound to the Earth: Art, Materiality, and the Natural World >
Bound to the Earth looks at the ways in which artists have addressed and represented the landscape.
More > mcasd.org/bound
Images: Nancy Lupo, Research Image for Scripts for the Pageant, photograph of inkjet print with nail polish, 8.5 x 11. Courtesy of the artist and Kristina Kite Gallery. / Graciela Iturbide, Cayó del Cielo, Chalma, México, 1990, gelatin silver print, 20 x 24 in. (50.8 x 61cm). Collection Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego. Gift of Susan Steinhauser and Daniel Greenberg, 2012.36 © Graciela Iturbide. / Marta Palau, Front-era, 2003, 41 ladders made of twigs and twine, dimensions variable. Collection Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego. Museum purchase with proceeds from Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego Art Auction 2004, 2005.36.a-oo © 2003 Marta Palau.
Hear veteran Keith Sherman speak at tomorrow morning’s ArtOASIS Showcase from 10 AM-12 PM. Sherman is the founder of Gold Star Dirt, a company dedicated to sharing stories of fallen service members through the voices of their Gold Star families.
Listen in on a panel discussion featuring ArtOASIS program participants, and enjoy live performances by members of the School Of Music For Recovery at Veterans Village of San Diego (VVSD).
Keith Sherman travels the country speaking with families for his nonprofit Gold Star Dirt
Celebrate the artwork of more than 100 active duty military members this Friday, November 8, at a special ArtOASIS Showcase and exhibition unveiling from 10 AM-12 PM.
Listen in as participants share stories about how the ArtOASIS program has impacted their lives, and hear live performances by members of the School Of Music For Recovery at Veterans Village of San Diego (VVSD).
Learn more > https://www.mcasd.org/events/artoasis-showcase-3
Get your tickets now for MCASD and UC San Diego's annual Russell Lecture > Rodney McMillian next Tuesday, November 5.
Tickets > mcasd.org/mcmillian
From video and painting to installation and performance, McMillian’s artworks question the political systems that promise equality for all and highlight the power of the individual as an agent of change.
Tickets are FREE for MCASD Members and UC San Diego faculty, staff, and students.
Image: Rodney McMillian, White House Painting, 2018. Commissioned by the Contemporary Austin, with funds provided by the Suzanne Deal Booth Art Prize. Courtesy of the artist; Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects; and Maccarone, Los Angeles / New York. Photo credit: Colin Doyle.
It’s closing weekend for our current exhibitions! Visit Marnie Weber: Songs That Never Die and Other Stories, Prospect 2019, and More Like a Forest: Paintings and Sculptures by Richard Allen Morris today and tomorrow from 11 AM-5 PM.
Weber’s homespun, haunted-house aesthetic is the perfect backdrop for this pre-Halloween weekend (don’t forget to take a unicorn selfie!)
Installation images of Marnie Weber: Songs That Never Die and Other Stories; More Like a Forest: Paintings and Sculptures by Richard Allen Morris; and Prospect 2019, on view at Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, 2019. Photos by Pablo Mason.
Mark your calendar: On November 21, MCASD opens new exhibitions at Downtown at Sundown.
> México quiero conocerte: Photographs by Graciela Iturbide and Manuel Álvarez Bravo features work by two of the most celebrated photographers in Latin America.
> Nancy Lupo: Scripts for the Pageant presents the Los Angeles-based artist's first solo show.
> Bound to the Earth: Art, Materiality, and the Natural World examines the ways in which artists have addressed and represented the landscape.
Learn more > https://www.mcasd.org/exhibitions/on-view
What's happening in the world of visual art this season
Thursday night's Downtown at Sundown line-up is PACKED! Join us for exhibition tours, Medium Photo's Open Portfolio Walk, SDSU Downtown Gallery's opening of Constructed Mythologies: Luis González Palma, and the opening of Oscar Romo: Recovered Stream.
It’s all happening from 5-8 PM this Thursday night!
More > https://www.mcasd.org/events/downtown-sundown-17
Installation images of More Like a Forest: Paintings and Sculptures by Richard Allen Morris; Prospect 2019; and Marnie Weber: Songs That Never Die and Other Stories, on view at MCASD Downtown, 2019. Photos by Pablo Mason.
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See performance art-pop psychedelic duo Princess perform their live narrative video album Out There at the eXit pARTy on Friday, May 31. Tickets at link in bio. The eXit pARTy is the FINAL stop on their nation-wide tour that began at the Andy Warhol Museum this spring. eXit pARTies are FREE for Members and $25 for general public. Ticket price includes craft cocktails from Snake Oil Cocktail Co., live DJ sets, and art-making activities on the Figi Concourse. Not a Member? Join for as little as $5 per month at mcasd.org/join.
See performance art-pop psychedelic duo Princess perform their live narrative video album Out There at the eXit pARTy on Friday, May 31. This will be their the FINAL stop on a nation-wide tour that began at the Andy Warhol Museum this spring. Tickets at www.mcasd.org/exitparty Princess was formed in 2004 in Texas Ballroom, a performance space and gallery on Chicago's South Side. The duo released a self-titled LP and performed until 2006, when they moved on to pursue other paths. They reunited in 2017 to create Out There, a concept video album and live performance piece that explores the role men ought to be playing during the current cultural reckoning of misogyny. The video's science fiction narrative explores the power of the Divine Feminine through collaborations with JD Samon, visual artist Jennifer Meridian, and the band TEEN. eXit pARTies are FREE for Members and $25 for general public. Enjoy craft cocktails from Snake Oil Cocktail Company, live DJ sets, art-making activities on the Figi Concourse, and more.
MCASD’s An Artist’s Perspective program at The LOT in La Jolla.
MCASD invites its audience to start a dialogue with works in our digital collection. Consider the #subject, #color, #medium, #shapes, and #themes of each artwork when selecting an image or phrase as a response. Create new meaning and/or context by constructing relationships between your reactions and the elements of each artwork. . . BE THOUGHTFUL. BE HUMOROUS. BE VULNERABLE. BE HONEST. BE SUGGESTIVE. BE SINCERE. BE CRITICAL. BE PLAYFUL. MCASD.ORG/REACT . . [Image 1: James Turrell, Stuck Red. Image 2: James Turrell, Stuck Blue, 1970. Construction materials and fluorescent lights, (180 x 168 in.) Museum purchase, Elizabeth W. Russell Foundation Funds, © James Turrell 1990]
“Masquerading as a myriad of characters, Cindy Sherman (American, born 1954) invents personas and tableaus that examine the construction of identity, the nature of representation, and the artifice of photography. To create her images, she assumes the multiple roles of photographer, model, makeup artist, hairdresser, and stylist. Whether portraying a career girl, a blond bombshell, a fashion victim, a clown, or a society lady of a certain age, for over thirty-five years this relentlessly adventurous artist has created an eloquent and provocative body of work that resonates deeply in our visual culture." - @MoMA The Museum of Modern Art [Cindy Sherman, Untitled, (2000). Color photograph, edition 2 of 6 (36 x 24 in.) Museum purchase, International and Contemporary Collectors Funds, © Cindy Sherman 2000.]
"Best known for Synecdoche (1991), a grid of hundreds of monochrome “self-portraits”—the colors corresponding to their sitters’ skin tone—Byron Kim explored identity politics with his early abstract paintings." - @artsy . . [Image: Byron Kim, Synecdoche: Barbara Arledge, C.W. Kim,... Victor Vilaplana, (1994). Oil and wax medium on panel, 10 x 8 in. each of 25. Museum purchase, Contemporary Collectors Fund, © Byron Kim 1994]
This Thursday, starting at 6:30PM, join our Education team for a special MCASD React event in association with Downtown at Sundown, located at 1001 Kettner Blvd. MCASD React is our new digital platform that offers an opportunity to share how art impacts your life. Show us how artwork makes you feel, how it makes you think, and how it inspires you to create. . . [Image: Daniel Joseph Martinez, Self-portrait #9B Fifth attempt to clone mental disorder or How one philosophizes with a hammer, After Gustave Moreau, Prometheus, 1868; David Cronenberg, Videodrome, 1981, (2001). Digital Print, 48 x 60 in. Museum purchase; © Daniel Joseph Martinez.]
What does this artist dream about? How does this artwork make you feel? What might this artwork sound like? Share your answers with us at the beta testing of a new digital platform, MCASD REACT, at 1001 Kettner Blvd during tonight's Downtown at Sundown. Downtown at Sundown is free and open to the public from 5-8 PM. [1. Ed Ruscha, Brave Men of La Jolla, 1995 - 1996, Museum purchase with proceeds from Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego Art Auction 2006, and from prior donations by Susan and Frank Kockritz and Mr. and Mrs. Norton S. Walbridge, © Ed Ruscha 1996; 2. Robert Irwin, Light and Space, 2017, Museum purchase with funds from the Annenberg Foundation, © 2017 Robert Irwin / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York]
Today is #GivingTuesday – a day when the nation’s philanthropists large and small take a moment to reflect and support important organizations in their communities and across the nation. Today we're asking you to make a donation to the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego. Your generosity allows us to continue serving our community and shaping the landscape of contemporary art in the region. Your support is vital in allowing the Museum to fulfill its mission, and for that, we thank you. Donate today > https://mymcasd.mcasd.org/donate
DEEP TIME UNIVERSITY INTERSESSION
DEEP TIME UNIVERSITY INTERSESSION
DTU: INTERSESSION WITH SIMON LEUNG
Educators Engage! K-12 teachers, museum educators, university faculty actively learning in the galleries.
Deep Time University- intersession - Michael Trigilio
DTU: Intersession Michael Trigilio
DTU: Internsession with Slanguage
DTU: intersession- Jennifer Moon
Sneak peek walk through of our brand new exhibition, Memories of Underdevelopment, opening TOMORROW! Enjoy free admission from 11-5.
DEEP TIME UNIVERSITY: intersession seminar 3 with Sarita Dougherty exploring "Deep Decolonization: (Re)mapping worldviews for self and planet"
Welcome to Unknowns, Unknowns, Unknowns, an exhibition that showcases investigations of artist Michael Ano on the relationships, power structures and limitations of institutions as they attempt to provide access, and learning experiences for all. On view Thursday through Sunday from 11 AM - 5 PM, and every Thursday until 8 PM through November 2, 2017.
Deep Time University: Part 3
Deep Time University: Part 2
Deep Time University: Part 1
This morning, Kathryn Kanjo was named the David C. Copley Director and CEO of the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego on MCASD's 75th anniversary. At the event, Hugh Davies lauded his successor and thanked those in attendance (and San Diego community) for their support of the Museum during his 33-year tenure. Board Chair Paul Jacobs spoke about the Museum's impending expansion and introduced architect Annabelle Selldorf, featured in this video about the La Jolla facility's expansion. Said Kanjo, "This expansion will give us room to show our collection, which includes masterpieces from 1950 to the present day."
Watch this piece from KCET’s Artbound about Marcos Ramirez ERRE and David Taylor’s DeLIMITations: A Survey of the 1821 United States-Mexico Border. The artists placed 47 sheet metal markers along the historical 1821 border between Mexico and the western territories of the United States, spanning from the Oregon coast to the Gulf of Mexico just west of Louisiana. An exhibition about the work is on view at MCASD Downtown through November 27. Special thanks to KCET for producing this video.
A visitor at MCASD La Jolla brought music into the galleries when he played the piano currently placed in Axline Court. The piano--painted by post-9/11 combat veterans with Combat Arts San Diego--was originally part of the San Diego Symphony's Upright and Grand Festival and Pianos in Public Spaces project. It is now on view in conjunction with our ArtOASIS Showcase, featuring artwork by active duty members of the armed forces, created as a means of coping with the effects of combat-related stress. Play the piano and view the ArtOASIS Showcase through September 4.
Music to our ears. On Friday we were lucky enough to host Tony Palkovic in front of our downtown location for the Sounds of Summer pop-up concert series, an exciting partnership between GigTown Music, Pacific Records, and Downtown San Diego Partnership that brings local artists to the streets of downtown San Diego. Check out the line-up for the rest of the summer, and catch some of these great artists in action! #MCASD #SoundsofSummer Info > http://bit.ly/29Q50Rs
Here's an awesome video from @ctopazio on Instagram of her dancing with City Ballet of San Diego amidst the Do Ho Suh exhibition at last week's Downtown at Sundown.
There are so many reasons not to miss The Spring Thing this Friday at MCASD Downtown. From dinner by Kettner Exchange with rum pairings by Malahat Spirits Co., to live music by Jeffrey Paradise, Wild Wild Wets, and DJ Vaughn Avakian, and an all-night hosted bar. Get your tickets now to our biggest downtown party of the year! Tickets and info > www.mcasd.org/modernmutiny
The Matt Smith Neu Jazz Trio stopped by MCASD Downtown to give San Diego Symphony's piano a try. The piano will be in front of the Museum through February 8 as part of the Symphony's Upright and Grand festival and features artwork by Combat Arts San Diego (who you may remember from our ArtOASIS exhibition). Come down and play!
We are proud to host a piano painted by Combat Arts San Diego in front of MCASD Downtown as part of San Diego Symphony's Upright and Grand Festival and Pianos in Public Spaces project. Come on down and Play through February 8!
Happy Holidays from MCASD!
Happy Thanksgiving! We are so grateful to all our visitors and supporters! We couldn't do everything that we do without you. And furthermore, you take amazing pictures in our galleries!
You can't miss Fireman #1 (on tan, pink and violet lines) by Brian Bress (2014) on view at MCASD La Jolla as part of San Diego Collects. In this video work, a costumed Brian Bress draws directly onto the screen, pausing to erase the drawing and start again. Creating a work that is at once performative and animated, Bress’s work explores the relationship between his videos and their viewers, creating a space that is at once inside and outside. More about San Diego Collects > http://bit.ly/SanDiegoCollects
Monte Carlo: Glamping is this Saturday at MCASD La Jolla! Buy your tickets today to attend our largest party of the year, where our La Jolla location will be transformed into a wild campground filled with music, tasty drinks, delicious bites, performers, and surprises all night long! Join us for dinner or show up fashionably late for the After Party! Either way, this party is not to be missed! Buy your tickets today! > bit.ly/MonteCarloGlamping Monte Carlo: Glamping is presented by The San Diego County BMW USA Centers
BMX Channel by Shaun Gladwell is on view at MCASD Downtown. Learn more > http://bit.ly/1JXC6gO
Come see Anya Gallaccio's 3D printer for clay, entitled beautiful minds, at work everyday at MCASD Downtown during the midday hours. The 3D printer suggests San Diego’s identity as a hub of technological innovation, even as the form it constructs, Devils Tower, possesses otherworldly connotations, as a sacred site in Native American tradition and the location of an alien landing in the 1977 film, Close Encounters of the Third Kind. More about this exhibition > http://bit.ly/1dc2NR3
It's alive! Anya Gallaccio's 16-foot 3D printer for clay is in action in our galleries downtown.The printer is creating a rendition of the iconic national monument Devils Tower, insinuating the slow build of geological time with the immediacy of 3D printing. More info on this exhibition > http://bit.ly/1dc2NR3 Don't miss the opening celebration > http://bit.ly/1z5L2GK
Tomorrow is your last chance to donate to MCASD’s Give Beauty campaign! Thanks to generous community support, we’re able to offer FREE Museum admission and discounted event tickets to our Nation’s brave men and women and their families. Your donation will ensure San Diego’s military community always has access to an artful oasis. #GiveBeauty Donate today > http://bit.ly/1IqP0kR
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