Parallel Stories – Reading and Conversation with Eileen Myles

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

$5

The Interior Sublime: Wilhelm Hammershøi and the Painting of Silence – Art Matters Lecture with Eik Kahng

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

$10

Sketching Ideas – Visuality in Chinese Flower-and-Bird Painting

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

$5

Whitney Bedford’s Landscapes – An Artist Talk

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

Free

The Doors Unhinged: John Densmore in Conversation with Andrew Winer

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

$5 – $10

William Wegman: An Introduction to His Art

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

$10 – $15

Edo Pop: Woodblock Prints and Popular Culture in Premodern Japan

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

$10 – $15

Making Art and Living the Authentic Life

Santa Barbara Museum of Art 1130 State Street, Santa Barbara, CA

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

$5 – $10

Contemplating Nature: Flowers, Gardens, and Self-Reflection in Chinese Painting

Santa Barbara Museum of Art 1130 State Street, Santa Barbara, CA

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.

$20

Parallel Stories – Seeing From the Rupture: A Reading and Conversation with Jenny Xie

Santa Barbara Museum of Art 1130 State Street, Santa Barbara, CA

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

$5 – $10

Opening Event for California Dreaming: Coming of Age in America’s Other Heartland

UCSB Library / Instruction & Training 1312 UCSB Library, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

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

Free
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