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Santa Barbara Museum of Art presents "Modern Life: A Global Artworld, 1850 – 1950"
December 10, 2024

Photo of Dario Robleto's American Seabed artwork, featuring unconventional materials like fossilized whale ear bones and butterflies, whose antennae are crafted from stretched audiotape recordings of Bob Dylan’s “Desolation Row"

Santa Barbara Museum of Art Presents exhibition "Dario Robleto: The Signal"

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35th Annual Día de los Muertos Celebration at SBMA and MCASB
Sunday, October 20
11 am – 4 pm

Santa Barbara Museum of Art Presents "In the Making: Contemporary Art at SBMA"

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Santa Barbara Museum of Art Presents "A Legacy of Giving: The Lady Leslie and Lord Paul Ridely - Tree Collection"

In the News

Marriage Stories: Works about marital strife made by artist duo Ed and Nancy Kienholz go on view at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art - AirMail

January 28, 2023

Architecture: "The Architecture of Collage" Marshall Brown at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art - Musée Magazine

October 19, 2022

Pulling and Putting Things Together at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art - Santa Barbara Independent

October 13, 2022

Review: What made Van Gogh tick? A Santa Barbara show offers surprising answers - Los Angeles Times

March 1, 2022

Go to Gogh - Montecito Journal

February 24, 2022