Young San Diego emerging artist is finding that queer history is his story
When Nathan Storey begins to describe his admiration for printed media — everything from flyers...
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New Liberty Station art exhibits to focus on fun, flowers and butterflies
Floral displays and images of butterflies and summer fun — all of them tied to...
Looking for San Diego’s best burger? Here are 33 great local burgers to try
Today, May 28, is International Burger Day, and many local spots will be offering dining...
James Hubbell, San Diego’s iconic sculptor, artist, naturalist and peace advocate, dies at 92
James T. Hubbell, an iconic local sculptor, artist and humanitarian whose organically inspired works can...
‘A sense of calm’: Amy Tan’s writing and illustrations soar in new book about birds
Most of the drawings in Amy Tan’s unusual and rewarding new book, "The Backyard Bird...
Mysterious pop-up art exhibit fueled local man’s magic-filled show ‘Us’
Over the course of seven weeks in the summer of 2017, Rancho Santa Fe residents...
Showing and telling is the goal for San Diego multidisciplinary artist
There was a moment, not too long ago, where Linda Litteral just didn’t have it...
North County folk artist promises a hands-on ‘Experience’
“It’s not fully alive until someone touches it.”Ted Berryman often encourages patrons to touch and...
Her large-scale photos speak thousands of words about Indigenous communities, identities
Contemporary fine art photographer Cara Romero is thoughtful and deliberate in her work and particularly...
Tales of magic carpets connect to migrant journeys in Iranian-American artist’s exhibit at Mingei
Her family had to leave their home country during the Iranian Revolution of 1979, and...
Two sculptures became symbols of racial unity for a San Diego community. Now, local students are recreating them.
Red, yellow, black, white and brown figures stand together on a college campus in southeastern...
UCSD in talks to buy former museum building at downtown Santa Fe Train Depot
SAN DIEGO — Last month, the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego closed both of its downtown...
Late start was a great start for these Southern California artists and authors
Many artists and authors discovered their hidden talents in their childhood or their teens. But...
Where to see the late Richard Serra’s work in San Diego
Artist Richard Serra, who passed away March 26 at age 85, created several monumental sculptures...
Famed American sculptor Richard Serra, the ‘poet of iron,’ has died at 85
Famed American artist and sculptor Richard Serra, known for turning curving walls of rusting steel...
Two City Heights women are helping local creatives fulfill their artistic potential
Speaking with Noun Abdelaziz and Fatuma “Uma” Fadhil, one can’t help but walk away feeling...
Bursts of color saturate Carlsbad flower fields in new mural by Oceanside artist
Those big, beautiful elephants kept plodding a path through Michael Summers’ mind, and he finally...
Murals from the old border wall were going to be destroyed. Now they will be given new life.
TIJUANA — When it became inevitable that the old U.S.-Mexico border fence along Friendship Park would be...
Navy SEAL Museum to take over Museum of Contemporary Art’s downtown location
DOWNTOWN — After 31 years downtown, the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego on Friday officially exited...
Defiance, resistance in one artist’s celebration of Black women in new Mesa College exhibition
There was a moment when writer and artist Elizabeth Salaam first moved to New York...
Spring arts preview 2024: Our top 10 visual art picks and events for the season
Exciting exhibitions will be popping up all over the county this spring, from solo and...
The most iconic stretch of border wall is being replaced. New murals have a lot to say about that.
TIJUANA — For local artists, it was only a matter of time.Over the past several months, large-scale...
Spring arts preview 2024: The fantastical work of Ethan Chan in full bloom at local galleries
Ethan Chan is a hoarder. He admits it. He even goes so far to say...
Living things as machines? Vista artist shares love of science and art in ‘Organic Metal’ exhibition
Artist Krista Timberlake was initially on her way to becoming a medical doctor when a...
Kyoto Prize winner uses surreal art forms to make sense of the world’s ugly realities
When Nalini Malani was 12, and visiting Tokyo with her parents in the 1950s, her...
Chula Vista artist creates new City Heights mural as a way to ‘show up’ for immigrant communities
Next to a chicken-and-waffles spot and a convenience story on Fairmount Avenue, between University and...
Grand opening expected in June for Encinitas’ new art facility
ENCINITAS — The city’s new Pacific View Art Center will initially operate under a five-day-week, limited-hours schedule...
San Diego SCPA student’s work part of ‘Black Perspective’ exhibit in Oceanside
Her grandmother saw a post on Instagram calling for artist submissions for an upcoming exhibition,...
A 1997 mural in Chicano Park is being restored for a new generation of female activism
From the base of a pillar on a bridge over Chicano Park, artist Berenice Badillo...
City Heights resident explores culture, trauma through performance art
It’s difficult not to notice audience members flinching while Hamsa Fae performs “Homework.”Performed last year...
World Design Capital events to kick off with community celebration in Tijuana later this month
Three years after local boosters won their bid to bring the biennial World Design Capital...
Inside the Getty’s rigorous effort to fix a 500-year-old broken masterpiece
After 2-1/2 years of rigorous, sometimes hair-raising effort, the conservation studio at the J. Paul...
Immersive Monet and Van Gogh shows ready to illuminate fairgrounds hall
Famed painters Claude Monet and Vincent Van Gogh may never have met in real life,...
Get wrapped up in the ‘ebb and flow’ of art centering the wonders of kelp at UC San Diego exhibit
There’s something about freediving into the giant kelp forests off the local coastline that elicits...
Two exhibits in La Jolla highlight the climate challenges facing the region’s giant kelp forests
Over the past 134 years, the giant kelp forests off the coast of Southern California...
Museum Month returning in February with half off admission and new locations
When the San Diego Museum Council's annual Museum Month celebration takes place in February, it...
The San Diego Museum of Art just added another free-admission day
Visitors to the San Diego Museum of Art have a new opportunity to explore its...
La Mesa heirs of Nazi-looted Pissarro painting lose legal battle to Spanish museum
After nearly two decades of litigation that has included a ruling by the U.S. Supreme...
Immersive Van Gogh exhibit returning to Del Mar Fairgrounds with new sister show: ‘Beyond Monet’
Two years ago this month, "Beyond Van Gogh" opened at the Del Mar Fairgrounds and...
Chronicling through craft: Designer weaves tales of cultural resistance into her jewelry
It’s easy to say "don’t judge a book by its cover," but when it comes...
Contemporary jewelry tells stories about the border in Mingei exhibition
There is plenty to say about the U.S.-Mexico border, and the featured artists in the...
Once a shipping container, now affordable housing for artists: Inside a new Logan Heights community hub
Steel boxes may not seem your typical conduits for creativity. But a new housing development...
San Diego contemporary art leaders mourn the death of L.A. conceptual artist Alexis Smith
Alexis Smith may have spent her working life in Los Angeles, but the conceptual and...
Priceless rock ‘n’ roll art collection and all-star concert to make one-day stop in Los Angeles
The Jim Irsay Collection includes Kurt Cobain's guitar from Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" music...
From drab stairway to an explosion of color, muralists add ‘very Mexican touch’ to Tijuana landmark
TIJUANA — A new and colorful mural can be seen from a distance highlighting an emblematic stairway...
Looking ahead: The San Diego art events I most want to explore in 2024
It’s not hyperbolic to state that a lot of eyes will be on the San...
Year in review: The best local art exhibitions of 2023
In my nearly two decades of covering the arts in San Diego, I’m hard-pressed to...
Street festival, design showcase and more: What’s planned for World Design Capital events
SAN DIEGO — Planning is well under way for the many festivals, conferences and neighborhood events San...
Hive of support keeps local arts center open, celebrating 15 years in North Park
It was a dream that became a reality for Alma Rodriguez — one that was...
Art San Diego 2023
Art San Diego 2023 celebrated its 15th annual event at The San Diego Convention Center...
San Diego arts groups could get a big funding boost – if the city keeps its promise this time
SAN DIEGO — Small arts organizations across San Diego, from theater troupes to museums and ballet companies,...
Prebys Foundation announces $30.6 million in grants for arts, health, medical research and youth success
The Prebys Foundation on Tuesday announced the award of 147 grants totaling $30.6 million to...
California Arts Council delivers $2.2 million in grants to 61 local organizations
The California Arts Council on Friday announced the award of grants totaling $32.7 million to...
San Diego Natural History Museum planning yearlong celebration of its 150th anniversary
If artist Eva Struble's massive mural is any indication, The San Diego Natural History Museum...
How a Southern California artist created one of the world’s largest stained-glass windows
When artist Tim Carey and Judson Studios won the bid in 2014 to make one...
Timken sparkles again for the holidays with ‘Jewels of the Season’
In the 1930s, San Diego artist Florence Hord began creating intricately designed holiday ornaments. Colorfully...
Heleo Architecture & Design making an impact in San Diego and Tijuana
Raised on both sides of the border, immersed in experimental and sustainable architecture since they...
San Diego Fine Woodworkers filling the tables for two-day Holiday Gift Sale
A huge assortment of locally handcrafted wooden toys and gifts will be ready to come...
Finding the balance: C Fodoreanu pursues his artistic dreams while working as a doctor
For many, the formative dreams of becoming a successful artist or creative, no matter the...
North County photographer among 95 exhibitors at annual Art San Diego fair this weekend
The route to Benjamin Rinenbach's career was not direct, even though photography has been a...
San Diego artists focus on LGBTQ Asian experience in ‘family table’ event at Mingei Museum
Thinking about coming together for a family meal brings up images of food, conversation, and...
Robert Irwin, prominent San Diego installation artist, dies at 95
Robert Irwin, a longtime San Diego artist associated with the Light and Space movement of...
Lasting legacy: Exhibition celebrates the colorful history of Korean art
There is art everywhere.On the surface, a statement such as this might sound hyperbolic, even...
La Jolla Landmark Week to focus on Modernist architectural design this year
For this year’s La Jolla Landmark Week, the La Jolla Historical Society is offering its...
Lifting up women, finding ‘grace’ spanning decades of work in art exhibition at Mesa College
Artist Grace Gray-Adams returned to San Diego Mesa College this month in a display of...
Prebys Foundation announces $16 million in new grant funds for local arts organizations
The Conrad Prebys Foundation has announced plans to award $16 million in grants to support...
Autumn, San Diego style: Pot pies, pumpkins and plump little plants
SAN DIEGO — OK, so we San Diegans may not have giant piles of crunchy leaves to...
Look and listen: San Diego artist and professor honors stories of displaced peoples
Visual artist John Halaka came into a greater awareness of civil and human rights as...
San Diego artist examines consumerism and consciousness
For as long as there has been recorded history, there has been advertising. And yes...
‘There are no productions without money in the bank’: Why small arts organizations face a steeper climb
When choreographer Anjanette Maraya-Ramey arrived at her Chula Vista studio one Monday afternoon in September,...
Tijuana cultural museum hosts first Mexican exhibition by controversial Czech artist David Cerny: ‘Rebelion’
They attract attention. Definitely.Case in point: "Brown-Nosing," a half-body bent forward and standing more than...
San Diego Watercolor Society brushes up for 43rd annual International Exhibit in Point Loma
The San Diego Watercolor Society’s largest and most competitive show of the year is just...
Sculptor delves into memory, geology and family history in ‘Formations’ at MCASD
For any serious visual artist, there comes a time when they begin to consider their...
Dan Rios, longtime newspaper photographer who chronicled San Diego County history, dies at 84
NORTH COUNTY — Dan Rios, a longtime North County newspaper photographer who donated his 1 million-image collection...
Fall arts preview 2023: At 54, ever-evolving Heige Kim revels in being named a ‘NextGen’ artist
Heige Kim certainly sees the irony in being looked at as an “emerging artistic voice.”...
Fall arts preview 2023: Our top visual art picks for the season
Fall has always historically been a fantastic time to get out and see some visual...
Fall arts preview 2023: Author Jennifer Peoples Hernandez explores the life of a legendary San Diego artist in definitive biography
Jennifer Peoples Hernandez’s husband and three children like to joke that Belle Baranceanu may as...
Arts, community, social service groups get $2.52M in grants
SAN DIEGO — A total of 18 regional arts, culture, community and social service organizations will receive...
Lemon Grove artist tells her life story through disparate elements
It’s very early in my interview with local artist Anna O’Cain when I realize that...
At LeucadiART Walk, artists and art hunters enjoyed authentic encounters
LEUCADIA — One thing visitors to Sunday's LeucadiART Walk didn't encounter: corporate vendors selling pre-fab decor shipped...
ENVZN23: More than an arts festival, a collaboration between communities
A play inside a barber shop? A film festival at a gym? A journey around...
A look at San Diego’s best-designed transit-oriented developments
In the early 1990s, urban planner and visionary Peter Calthorpe promoted transit-oriented development (TOD) as...
Artists from Guam share culture, build ‘home away from home’ in art show in La Jolla
Looking back on his childhood as a military kid, Kenneth Paulino Jr. realizes that watching...
Projections, props, dance and spoken word poetry are expanding the boundaries of classical concerts
Things are changing in the classical music world. In San Diego and across the country,...
Isn’t data beautiful? UCSD prize makes scientists into artists
Dozens of researchers at UC San Diego are now also artists with a new —...
San Diego’s next-generation artists showcase works exploring life experiences
SAN YSIDRO — The pain, joy and life stories of students enrolled in the San Diego Art...
Young local artist channels the nuances of Southwest living in mixed-media sculptural works
It can be difficult to be a young artist.This statement might sound obvious, even trite,...
Ilan-Lael Foundation launches fundraiser to preserve its bespoke architecture
The Ilan-Lael Foundation is seeking funds to update and preserve one of the most unique...
Little Amal, a 12-foot puppet of a Syrian refugee girl, to ‘walk’ in multiple San Diego locations
Little Amal, a 12-foot puppet of a Syrian refugee girl, will interact with the public...
Four local sculpture and mixed media artists honored with San Diego Art Prize
Soon after her arrival in San Diego in the late 1990s, Patricia Frischer made her...
La Jolla priest’s book details famed architect’s devotion
After years of looking up and around at renowned architect Irving Gill’s work, the Rev....
Comic-Con panel featuring local Holocaust survivor spotlights concentration camp tattoos
When people hear Comic-Con, the immediate association is typically superheroes, video games and people clad...
He created one of the greatest graphic novels ever. Where do you go from there?
Jeff Smith was on the cusp of waking and dreaming.After weeks on the road, with...
New Comic-Con Museum exhibit takes a closer look at the life work of Stan Lee
Millions of people have seen Stan Lee in his quirky background appearances in the Marvel...
The shapes & sizes of San Diego abstractionist Matt Rich
One of the more misunderstood aspects of abstract art is that it’s instinct first and...
Your guide to San Diego’s Comic-Con International – from A to Z
Comic-Con International returns next week for four-plus days of panels, exhibitions, outdoor activations and cosplayers...
How do you want to experience arts and culture? San Diego asks for help creating a more ‘Creative City’
The city is inviting artists and residents alike to be part of the process of...
San Diego leaders propose sharp increase in arts funding that would fulfill decade-old promise
SAN DIEGO — A new proposal from San Diego city leaders would sharply increase arts funding and...
City to invest $12.2 million in arts, culture through local nonprofit programming, neighborhood projects
To boost arts and cultural experiences for San Diegans, the city is funneling $12.2 million...
‘It has taken me years to unravel my religious trauma … and find the courage to come out’
Riri FranklinPronouns: They/themAge: 25Lives in: San DiegoInstagram: @alienby.comicsTwitter/Tumblr: @alienbycomics Q: Tell us what it’s like...