The Museum welcomes acclaimed poet, novelist, performer, and art journalist Eileen Myles. A trailblazer whose decades of literary and artistic work, in the words of The New York Review of Books, “set a bar for openness, frankness, and variability few lives could ever match.” Myles is the author of more than 20 books, including A Working Life, For
In this talk, David Ake Sensabaugh, Head of the Asian Art Department at Yale University, will explore the history of the flower-and-bird painting genre in China.
Eik Kahng, Ph.D. Chief Curator and Deputy Director, SBMA In the last thirty years, the Danish painter Wilhelm Hammershøi (1864-1916) has regained the critical recognition that he enjoyed during his lifetime as “the Danish Vermeer.” His route to the uncanny and the sublime was unique, in that he chose to focus on domestic interiors, typically
In this talk, UCSB Professor Peter Sturman will trace some of the rich history of Xiyu painting in flower-and-bird painting, its vital ties through calligraphy to the early formation of literati painting. Mary Craig Auditorium Free Students | SBMA Members $5 Non-Members
The Atkinson Gallery at Santa Barbara City College and the Santa Barbara Museum of Art have co-organized an artist’s talk with Whitney Bedford, a California artist who looks to art history, especially Impressionist painters, to make startlingly colored and brilliantly graphic images. Even though Bedford is a thoroughly contemporary artist, her work exists in a
Join this New York Times bestselling author and legendary Doors drummer for a conversation about his most recent book The Doors Unhinged—a powerful exploration of an approach to life and culture that is NOT driven by greed—with novelist and art essayist, Andrew Winer. Signed copies of The Doors Unhinged will be available for sale before and after the talk courtesy
William Wegman, best known for his images of Weimaraner dogs, will speak about his pioneering work in painting, drawing, photography, and video, beginning with his start in California in the 1970s. Mary Craig Auditorium Free Students | Teachers (with valid ID) $10 SBMA Members $15 Non-Members
Art Matters Lecture with Matthew Welch, Deputy Director and Chief Curator, Minneapolis Institute of Art. With their crisp outlines, unmodulated colors, and surprising vantage points, Japanese woodblock prints (ukiyo-e) from the 18th and 19th centuries seem as fresh and captivating today as when they were produced. Sensuality, fashion, decadent entertainments and urban pastimes all reflect
As part of programming for Inside/Outside (on view until February 18), an exhibition of recent contemporary acquisitions, Prof. Caroline Arruda will give a talk that combines philosophy with art to think about how artists show us what a life well lived might look like. Contemporary culture sees artists as being authentic because many pursue their creative goals
A special one-day lecture series. Expert art historians offer detailed glimpses into some of the many facets of the flower-and-bird genre in Chinese painting and reveal how these images of intimate nature can be thresholds to worlds rich with beauty and private emotions.
In this conversation, resonating with both the past and tradition exemplified in the exhibition Flowers on a River and with the distillation and duality explored in Inside/Outside, Jenny Xie opens up, as US Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera described, “multiple terrains of seeing.” With longing and memory, nuance and subtlety, the “anxiety of bilingualism,” and the unknowability of
Please join us for an event to celebrate the opening of a new exhibition of black and white photographs documenting the intergenerational upward mobility of young residents of Dixon, California. Trevor Auldridge Reveles, a PhD candidate in Sociology at UCSB will discuss the research behind this exhibition. Following his talk, Trevor will lead a tour
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