SAN DIEGO:
“Great art picks up where nature ends. -Marc Chagall
The San Diego Museum of Art Located in the heart of Balboa Park and opened as
The Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego, most mistakenly assume this museum was originally built as a part of Panama–California Exposition of 1915. The Sacra- mento Building originally stood on the site and the museum’s current building was designed in 1926 by architects William Templeton Johnson and Robert W. Snyder in a plateresque style to “harmonize with existing structures” from the original exposition. The museum changed its name to the San Diego
Museum of Art in 1978 and is considered the region’s oldest, largest and most visited art museum for almost 250,000 visitors annually. The nationally renowned permanent collection includes Spanish and Italian old masters, South Asian paintings, as well as 19th- and 20th-century American paintings and sculptures. The museum’s collection is encyclopedic, with pieces ranging in date from 5000 BC to 2012 AD, including such works by Francisco Goya, Giovanni Bellini, Diego Velázquez, works by Italian masters Giorgione, Giotto, Veronese, Luini and Canaletto, Northern European School master works by Rubens, Hals and van Dyck and German Expressionist paint- ings, drawings and prints including Otto Dix, Egon Schiele, Alexej von Jawlensky, Gabriele Münter and Gustav Klimt. The modern art collection boasts works by 20th century Europe and Latin American masters including Matisse, Dalí, Magritte, Rivera, Tamayo, Miró, Calder, Moore and Hepworth.
36 RAGE monthly | MARCH 2014 So much more can be found within and also next-
door in the nearby Timken Museum of Art. The San Diego Museum of Art is located at 1450 El Prado, Balboa Park in San Diego, for tickets and more information call 619.232.7931 or go
tosdmart.org.
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego Did you know that there are two locations for the
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (MCASD)? Most known for the coastal La Jolla location, many do not realize that the second sister location in the heart of Downtown San Diego is aligned. Both house an internationally renowned collection and as they say on their site, “MCASD is the region’s foremost forum devoted to the exploration and presentation of the art of our time, presenting works across all media created since 1950.” It is a collection that houses more
than 4,000 works, representing a variety of media and genres: painting, sculpture, works on paper, photog- raphy, video, and installation including, minimalist and Pop Art from the 1960s and 1970s, conceptual art from the 1960s to the present, installation art, Latin American art and art from California and the San Diego/Tijuana region. MCASD is also known for col- lecting pieces by emerging and under-recognized, mid-career artists, as well as through pieces from major figures in international contemporary art. MCASD La Jolla is at 700 Prospect Street, MCASD Downtown is located at 1100 and 1001 Kettner Boulevard, for more information on both call 858.454.3541 or go
tomcasd.org.
OTHER SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ART MUSEUMS (cont’d)
18th Street Arts Center (Santa Monica) Armory Center for the Arts (Pasadena) Angels Gate Cultural Center (San Pedro) Barnsdale Park Municipal Art Gallery(Los Angles) Casa Romantica Cultural Center and Gardens (San Clemente) Consejo Fronterizo de Arte y Cultura (Irvine) The Corita Art Center (Los Angeles) The dA Center for the Arts(Pomona) ECF Art Centers (Los Angeles) First Street Gallery Art Center(Claremont) Irvine Fine Arts Center(Irvine) LA Artcore (Union Center for Fine Arts, Los Angeles) Los Angeles Center for Digital Art (Los Angeles) Muckenthaler Cultural Center(Fullerton) Orange County Center for Contemporary Art (Santa Ana) Palos Verdes Art Center(Rancho Palos Verdes) Side Street Projects (Los Angeles) Skirball Cultural Center(Los Angeles) VIVA Art Center - Valley Institute of Visual Art (Sherman Oaks) Watts Towers Arts Center(Los Angeles)
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