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photo the Art Learning Lab sign and display featuring white checkerboard partially filled in with red, orange, and green flanked by shelves filled with supplies

Santa Barbara Museum of Art to Open Expanded Educational Space on Sunday, April 13, Launching Enhanced Educational Programming
April 10, 2025

painting of wheat

"The Impressionist Revolution: Monet to Matisse from the Dallas Museum of Art" and "Encore: 19th Century French Art at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art"
May 2, 2025

abstract painting evoking a landscape with a bright palette including blues, greens, and purples

Santa Barbara Museum of Art Presents "Vian Sora: Outerworlds"
March 13, 2025

photo of abstract work hanging on a light gray wall, consisting of a heavily worked surface with various objects and color palette of warm tones

Santa Barbara Museum of Art Presents Mid-Career Exhibitions by Los Angeles Artist Elliott Hundley Opening April 20, 2025
March 6, 2025

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Santa Barbara Museum of Art Announces 2025 Exhibition Schedule
January 1, 2025

In the News

An Intimate Autobiography of Robert Rauschenberg - Hyperallergic

October 2, 2024

Cruz in Control - Santa Barbara Magazine

November 30, 2023

Review: James Castle Made Thousands of Resolute Drawings with Soot and Spit - Los Angeles Times

August 23, 2023

Domestic Aesthetics With ‘Scenes from a Marriage,’ the Artistic Marriage of Ed and Nancy Kienholz Is Brought Vividly to Life at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art - Santa Barbara Independent

March 5, 2023

Getting the Run of the Joint: Joan Tanner’s Field Day at S.B. Museum of Art - Santa Barbara Independent

February 23, 2023