Object Lessons: France in the Golden Age

Timken Museum of Art

February 14 through June 3, 2012

A concentration of five French seventeenth-century paintings in the first of a series of small displays of art called "Object Lessons." This inaugural grouping is mounted on the occasion of the loan of Nicolas Poussin’s The Holy Family Returning to Nazareth from the Cleveland Museum of Art.

Contemporary Art Wins a Beachhead: The La Jolla School of Arts 1960-1964

Oceanside Museum of Art

February 26 through July 8, 2012

Isaac Julien: Ten Thousand Waves

Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego - Downtown

February 23 through December 1, 2012

Julien's ambitious nine-screen video installation explores the movement of people across countries and continents and meditates on unfinished journeys.

TRASH

The New Children's Museum

October 15, 2011 through January 31, 2013

Featuring ongoing programming and installations by 12 international artists, TRASH encourages us to "draw attention to an invisible issue that increasingly dominates our lives," and serves up some sobering statistics alongside the fun trashy artworks. Participating artists are Mikey Eastman, Kota Ezawa, Kianga Ford, Institute For Figuring, Layer, Machine Project, Jessica McCambly, Vik Muniz, Jason Rogenes, Ed Ruscha, Shinique Smith, and Chris Sollars.