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Join Weixin Zhou, Ackland Graduate Teaching Fellow, for an informal conversation about the Ackland’s 12-13th century Song dynasty Stem Cup, a work featured in the Ackland’s Close Looks project. Plan to look closely and think collectively. Registration is limited.
Meet in the lobby for a 30-minute, guided tour of the Ackland Art Museum’s collection. Advance registration required; space is limited. This program is supported by the Orange County Arts Commission.
Meet in the lobby for a 30-minute, guided tour exploring highlights of our current special exhibition Buddha and Shiva, Lotus and Dragon: Masterworks from the Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd Collection at Asia Society. Advance registration required; space is limited.
Join us in reading artist and author Edmund de Waal’s captivating family memoir The Hare with Amber Eyes, which traces the story of his family through a collection of hand-carved Japanese netsuke as the objects traveled across time, space, and generations. After you’ve read it, spend time exploring the Ackland’s exhibition Buddha and Shiva, Lotus... Read More →
FAMILY TIME CAN BE STICKY… It was supposed to be a relaxing weekend, but when the LeVay brothers bring their new girlfriends to the beach house to meet the parents, mom’s MIA and dad’s acting weird. Family tensions erupt around the dinner table when old arguments about race, class, and family expectations are served up.
WHEN THE WALL COMES DOWN, WHAT’S NEXT? Six months since the end of the Soviet Union, two young Russian comrades find themselves in dead-end jobs, part of a mistaken-identity love triangle, and completely dumbfounded by a whole new world full of choices. A brand new comedy about the curse of freedom
Registration Link on our website (available until start of event) Paul Mpagi Sepuya is a Los Angeles-based artist working in photography and an Associate Professor in Media Arts at UC San Diego. His work is in the collections of the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Getty and Guggenheim Museums, LACMA, MoMA, The Studio Museum in... Read More →
A KALEIDOSCOPIC TRIP THROUGH TIME, SPACE, AND THE POWER OF LOVE Meg Murray is a short-tempered middle school math nerd. That will come in handy as she drags her brother off through time and space to find their missing father, save humanity, and maybe, just maybe, learn something about herself in this fantastical adaptation of... Read More →
In Myth & Memory, five artists interrogate practices of history-making and history-keeping at the individual, institutional, and systemic level. Beginning with personal narrative, each artist engages a vocabulary of fantasy to make visible that which has been forgotten, obscured, or erased by white heteropatriarchal modes of dominance. Through intimate gestures and acts of subversion, they... Read More →
Join Morehead Planetarium and Science Center for an unforgettable evening as imaging specialist Andy Saunders takes us on a journey through the Apollo missions using his meticulously remastered photographs. Andy also explains the cutting-edge techniques applied to scans of the original film to create the highest-quality Apollo photographs ever produced. Revealing details that have been... Read More →
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