Visual Arts

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San Diego Top Mother's Day Weekend Events: From Opera To Cartooning To Nature Mandalas To Brunch

May 7: By Julia Dixon Evans

Looking for a few ways to infuse art and culture into your pandemic weekend and Mother's Day?

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San Diego's Best Practice Gallery Turns To The USPS

May 7: By Julia Dixon Evans

Art by Mas G, C. Tsui and Ellie Vanden Busch originally planned to open at Barrio Logan gallery will continue across lo-fi and virtual platforms

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Bread And Salt: Supporting Each Other To Support The Arts

April 23: By Julia Dixon Evans

Five days a week of artist interviews and a new online art shop are ways the art space is adapting to the coronavirus pandemic — and hoping to survive.

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The Future Of Style: Slow Fashion Plus ... Merch Tees?

April 22: By Julia Dixon Evans

San Diego pattern designer Trista Roland considers the quarantine's potential impacts on style

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A Virtual 'Art Alive' Lives On At San Diego Museum Of Art

April 15: By Julia Dixon Evans

SDMA's must-see annual floral design event weekend was briefly canceled, but has found a place online

San Diego-based artist Rizzhel Javier's handmad...

Local Artists Find Healing And Community In Mass Producing Masks

April 8: By Julia Dixon Evans

'I just need to do this because people are gonna die,' said Cataphant, one of many San Diego artists making masks to donate during the coronavirus pandemic

Immersive Art In A No-Touch World

April 2: By Julia Dixon Evans

A San Diego artist finds creative ways to transform an immersive exhibition into remotely accessible work

The La Jolla Playhouse's Sheila and Hughes Poti...

San Diego Arts And Artists Go Digital During Coronavirus Closures

March 18: By Brooke Ruth, Julia Dixon Evans, Maureen Cavanaugh

San Diego artists, art museums, galleries and performing arts groups are finding ways to still share their art while traditional spaces and gatherings are canceled.

Art In The Time Of COVID-19

March 12: By Julia Dixon Evans

Cancellations from San Diego Opera, the La Jolla Symphony and more, plus organizations that are embracing "the show must go on" in the face of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19)

Alanna Airitam: How To Make A Country

March 12: By Julia Dixon Evans

"I was thinking about the people who make up this country, and how this country has become so economically prosperous and huge, and what it took in order to have a country like what we have," said photographer Alanna Airitam

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San Diego’s Top Weekend Arts Events: From Balanchine To Science And Modified Children's Books

March 6: By Jade Hindmon, Julia Dixon Evans

This weekend is packed with music, art and even science. We've got the City Ballet presenting works by Balanchine, a pairing of science and music at the Salk Institute plus a band raised in National City. And it's your last chance to catch a nostalgic — and unsettling — exhibition at the Athenaeum.

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'Out Of The Shadows' Lights Up Contemporary Chinese Photography

March 5: By Julia Dixon Evans

A new MOPA exhibition showcases innovation in Chinese photographic arts including large-scale photography, video and digital works and VR installations

San Diego's Top Weekend Arts Events: From New Dark Music To High Tech Mythology

Feb. 28: By Julia Dixon Evans, Maureen Cavanaugh

Our weekend preview includes an album release from a local woman-led dark, ambient metal band Høurs and the San Diego Symphony performs a ping-pong-inspired work. Plus, it's your last chance to see a fascinating contemporary animation installation at San Diego Museum of Art.

San Diego’s Top Weekend Arts Events: From Women In Art To New Composers

Feb. 21: By Alison St John, Julia Dixon Evans

The Brentano Quartet performs new work by Matthew Aucoin, world premieres from new San Diego composers at Visceral Infinities, Alofa La'Nique Gould opens a solo show at Hill Street Country Club and SDMA's exhibit of women in abstract expressionism closes this weekend.