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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

Mariana: Velázquez’s Portrait of a Queen from the Museo Nacional del Prado
December 13, 2024 - March 24, 2025

Exhibited on the West Coast for the very first time, Diego Velázquez’s extraordinary painting Queen Mariana of Austria (1652–53) is on special loan from the Museo Nacional del Prado in Madrid.

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Plugged In: Art and Electric Light
September 20, 2024 - February 17, 2025

The Museum brings together 11 works of art that demonstrate the ways that artists in the mid-20th century engaged with electric light in their artistic practice.

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