ART TALK

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.

As part of, Inside/Outside, an exhibition of recent acquisitions, SBMA is pleased to invite Keith Mayerson for a conversation with James Glisson, Curator of Contemporary Art. Keith Mayerson has long swum in the sea of mass media that we exist in and reframing them by painting them, and the Santa Barbara Museum of Art recently acquired

Beloved by artists across the decades for his fierce, uncompromising dedication to art, John Densmore occupies a rarified space in pop culture. His musicianship landed him in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. His writing consistently earns accolades and has appeared in a range of publications including the Los Angeles Times and Rolling Stone. As his friend

Art Matters Lecture with Joan Kee, Professor of Art History, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor How might we think about art and its histories from the perspective of a “global majority”? Spanning North America, Europe, Asia, and Africa, Joan Kee looks at the relationships that formed between Black and Asian artists at critical historical junctures—including