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The exhibition "Toying with Design" explores how play can inspire designers and architects to create toy-like, functional everyday objects. It will be on view in conjunction with San Diego Design Week 2022 and plays on the theme of this year’s Design Week, Design=Inspiration/Inspiración, encouraging viewers to consider what influences their work and how their work motivates others, giving rise to new ideas. This exhibition is co-curated by Patricia Cué, Creative Director at Mingei International Museum, and Susan Merritt, Professor Emerita of the School of Art and Design at San Diego State University. Stay Social! Facebook | Instagram | Twitter

NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella about the opportunities and potential dangers of artificial intelligence.

The Flemish Baroque refers to art created in the Southern Netherlands under Spanish control during the 16th and 17th centuries. The Spanish Hapsburgs ruled present-day Belgium, then known as the Spanish Netherlands or Flanders, which was its most prosperous province. Philip II controlled this region in tandem with the Catholic Church. The Catholic influence and precepts oppressed many in the Netherlands at this time as they were predominantly Protestant. By 1609, the Dutch Protestants achieved their independence from their southern counterparts in Flanders and became an independent republic. The Spanish Netherlands thus remained a categorically Catholic region. It provided the Flemish artists living there with many opportunities to create work with church or private commissions. Antwerp emerged as the leading cultural nexus beginning in the first first decades of the 17th century. Prominent artists such as Peter Paul Rubens, Anthony Van Dyck, and Jacob Jordaens worked primarily in this coastal city. Stylistically the art which emerged from this area was confident, energetic, magnificent, and at times theatrical. This docent-led talk will explore the work of these painters and others, and highlight their contributions to genre, portrait, still life, and religious art. Follow on social media! Facebook + Instagram

Democrats need to win every single competitive Democratic-held seat in 2024 to defend their narrow majority in the Senate. Even then the party could lose control if Republicans win the White House.

From the gallery: The Chair is an exhibition of one-of-a-kind chairs. “The chair represents the most sacred meeting of form and function; it’s a piece synonymous with support, the reliable foundation of our everyday lives. And yet the simple chair is in perpetual reinvention mode: it is the unending challenge for the artist and designer.” For this special exhibition, the selected works will range from fully functional examples to pieces of pure art and sculpture. Artists: David Fobes, Wendy Maruyama, John Cederquist, Paul Henry, Nate Betschart, DeLoss McGraw, Lee Puffer, Roy Jenuine, Matthew Hebert, Seth Keller, Gabriel Weise, James Watts, Christopher Polentz, Jonathan Lopes, Cheryl Tall, Adam John Manley, Nina Karavasiles and Erin Behling. Sept. 10 – Dec. 3, 2022 Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday: Noon - 5 p.m. Wednesday: Noon - 7 p.m. More information: 442-339-2021 Admission is free. Masks optional.

The San Diego Watercolor Society proudly presents “Break for Soup", Art Openign and Exhibition, juried by award-winning artist, Edward Abrams. The water-based media exhibition runs Sept 1-18, 2022 at our Gallery in The ARTS DISTRICT Liberty Station. The Opening Reception is Friday, Sept 2, 5-8pm with over 95 ready-to-hang original paintings plus refreshments and the fellowship of other art enthusiasts. The Gallery is open Thurs-Sun, 11am – 3pm. The paintings can also be viewed and purchased online. Please visit www.sdws.org for more information. Follow on social media! Facebook + Instagram

Oh, to be talented. Oh, to be inspired. To find purpose in place for posterity. To live among the blossoms and breeze of this world, capturing scenes in painting is love. It is a gift. It is humanity communicating to future generations. Welcome to Blossoms and Breeze, an art show that does more than introducing paintings. It lauds the humanity of the talented. La Playa Gallery is proud to introduce painters Rebecca Noelle, Cate Dudley, Cathy Carey, and sculptor Jon Koehler. Each of these artists comes to us with a powerful worldview. A wine and cheese reception will be held Friday, September 16, 2022, from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. for our artists. Mark your calendar today for this important show. Get inspired, grasp the imagination, or just stop by for a glass of wine and a taste of aspirational thought. Follow La Playa Art Gallery on Facebook | Twitter | Instagram

The four-time Grammy winning artist known for championing women and body positivity, denies allegations a lawsuit by former employees that they experienced weight-shaming and other troubling demands.

Historian Kristi Hawthorne will present Histories and Mysteries: Legends of Sunken Treasure, a 1-hour program exploring the claims of Dr. Joseph J. Markey for two shows: Friday, July 21 at 7:30 p.m., and Sunday, July 23 at 2:00 p.m. at OTC's Studio 219, 219 N. Coast Highway, downtown Oceanside. For over 30 years Dr. Joseph J. Markey spoke of Spanish gold buried in the hills of the San Luis Rey Valley for which only he had the map. Later Markey would claim that the Ship Trinidad carrying $10 million of gold sunk off the coast of Oceanside. He "discovered" numerous artifacts, including coins, skeletons and burials sites -- but what became of these discoveries? Is there gold waiting to be found? People want to believe, but what is the truth? Was it a hoax?

'Magic: the Gathering' partnered with fantasy's most iconic book series and inspired a bidding war over a special "The One Ring" card so fierce it'd make Gollum blush.