The quest for human rights and the search for personal fulfillment, as proposed in the 1776 American Declaration of Independence, provide the starting point for this international exhibition curated by Roger Manley (curator of AVAM’s mega-popular inaugural exhibition “Tree of Life.”) Works by the last surviving descendant of the Tsars of [...]

Founded by Joan Irvine in 1993, The Irvine Museum is the only museum in California dedicated to the preservation and display of California Impressionism or Plein-Air paintings, an art style that flourished from 1890 to 1930. The museum’s paintings from this beautiful and important regional variant of American Impressionism are principally [...]

The largest Native American-owned facility of its kind, The Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center brings to life the story of the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation, and serves as a major resource on the history of the Tribe. One of the country’s premier resources for Native American Studies, the Museum and Center opened to the [...]

Hours: (April - December) Tuesday - Saturday 10 AM - 5 PM, Sunday 1 PM - 5 PM; (January - March) Wednesday - Sunday 1 PM - 5 PM
Admission: $5 for adults, $4 for seniors and students and free for children under 12 and for members.
Location: The Florence Griswold Museum is located at Exit 70 [...]

Fall Course
American Abstract Art: O’Keeffe to the Present
Thursdays, October 1 – November 19
Daytime session (11 am – 12:30 pm) Sold out
Evening session (7 – 8:30 pm)
This 8-week course investigates key movements and artists with particular focus on the historical origins of abstract art and on significant models of abstraction as they developed in [...]

Art for All
An Evening of Skokomish Song and Dance
December 3, 2009
5:30–7:30 pm
Brotman Forum
Commemorating the recent acquisition of The End of the Ancestors (1992) by Gerald Bruce subiyay Miller, this performance features Skokomish song and dance.
SAM invites the entire family to explore art and experience a variety of cultures on the first Thursday of [...]

December 1, 4, 9, 11,15, 17, 19 at noon; 6, 13, 20 at 1 pm
Eclectic, inventive, anti-conformist…these are just a few of the widespread characterizations of artists who have lived and worked in the richest, most diverse, and most populous region of the United States since the end of World War II. [...]

The Museum of Photographic Arts is a surprisingly young institution. Surprising because during its relatively short life, the Museum has emerged as one of the cultural cornerstones of San Diego. The Museum was founded in 1972 and was known then as the Center for Photographic Arts. This name was wishful thinking: the Center had no [...]

Hours: Mondays & Wednesday - Saturday 10 AM - 5 PM, Tuesdays 10 AM - 9 PM, Sundays 12 PM - 5 PM, closed Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Eve & Christmas Day
Summer Hours: Monday - Thursday 10 AM - 9 PM, Fridays & Saturdays 10 AM - 5 PM, Sundays 12 PM - 5 PM [...]

The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, is home to one of the world’s finest collections of modern and contemporary art. The Wright building, the youngest to be designated a New York City landmark, is itself one of the greatest works of the Guggenheim Collection.