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A portrait is defined as a depiction of a particular individual. The traditions of European portraiture extend back to antiquity in early Rome and Greece. The earliest Renaissance portraits were not individual paintings, but rather inclusions in pictures of Christian subjects. By the fifteenth century in Italy for example, important men and women realized that a likeness could function as a means of announcing one's piety, power, or virtue. During the Baroque era, artists such as Frans Hals showed sitters sometimes looking out at the viewer with a mix of emotions which highlighted their status and personalities. By the time of the Rococo, subjects were often depicted as elegant, graceful, slender and tall in peaceful and natural settings. Exploring the evolution of portrait painting from the 15th-18th centuries will be the subject of this docent-led talk. Join the Zoom here: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86148328476?pwd=UmpTRGhYZS9UQnAxeHd6aHpCbENFdz09

Interact with Art Builds' "Reflexion" installation, a series of three periaktoi composed of independently rotating mirrored sections. Park-goers can visually experience and manipulate each periaktoi to reveal varying reflections of their surroundings. Park Social is a citywide initiative introducing social-specific public art into San Diego’s vast and varied park system. Held for six months in 2022, Park Social engages with a broad and constantly shifting audience of park-goers through responsive artistic projects. Learn more about the artist collective Art Builds' practice and their Park Social project by visiting sdparksocial.com. Follow us on Instagram @sdartsculture Related links: Park Social website, schedule, artists and more San Diego Commission for Arts and Culture on Instagram KPBS feature on Park Social

Stream now with the PBS App. For over 30 years, 3-time GRAMMY winner Bill Miller’s music has amplified the whispers of Native peoples’ hearts. Miller’s Mohican name is Fush-Ya Heay Aka (meaning "bird song"), and his songs have been deeply spiritual, exploring his Christian faith in his indigenous language while bridging cultures around the world with his signature sound.

Salk brings scientific research and data together to the answer: what kind of gallery engages museum visitors and helps them understand works of art?

Lakehouse Resort, located on the 80 acres recreational Lake San Marcos, is bringing back a summer of unforgettable music with its Summer Concert Series on the lakeside stage. To close out the summer, Young Guns (Superstars of County) will tear up the lakeside stage with songs from iconic country artists old and new on Saturday, August 12. Each concert is performed on the Lakeside Lawn with all lawn seating, so guests are encouraged to bring a blanket or low-back chair. Tickets are $45. Click here to learn more information about this event!

Stream now with KPBS Passport on KPBS+ / Watch Wednesday, Dec. 31, 2025 at 10 p.m. on KPBS TV. The incomparable, trail-blazing talent of Joni Mitchell is celebrated in Washington, DC's historic DAR Constitution Hall by a cadre of musical stars who all drew inspiration from the woman many consider to be the most influential musical artist of her time. Be it lyrics, composition, playing, singing, or even painting, no artist has demonstrated the creative length, depth and breadth of Joni Mitchell.

From the museum: "Lozenge–Variant 1" will be on display in the intimate Gerald and Inez Grant Parker Community Gallery, allowing visitors to focus on this singular artwork without their attention being drawn by any adjacent works. The gradually alternating colors will produce a meditative and deliberate experience in the darkened gallery, with seating available for visitors to take their time in the space. About the artist: American artist Phillip K. Smith III (b. Calif., 1972) uses light as a medium to create optically shifting sculptures and site-specific installations. His minimal but imposing interventions into vast outdoor landscapes and more discretely scaled sculptures are nuanced perceptual encounters in response to the unique conditions of site and context. Expansive and living, Smith’s boundary dissolving sculptures use mirrors and LED technology to alter the interplay of light, color, and surface in an expanded field, proposing shifts in experiential pace to modify the viewer's physical encounter. Trained as an artist and an architect at Rhode Island School of Design, Smith incorporates the site-specificity of architecture, with its reliance on scale, and its capacity to physically impact the human interaction it supports, to create immersive viewing experiences. The Lightworks originated when Smith created Aperture during his artist residency in 2010 at the Palm Springs Art Museum. Learn more here. Related links: Oceanside Museum of Art on Instagram Oceanside Museum of Art on Facebook

LaMont Dottin was a freshman at Queens College when he vanished one day in 1995. His mother became a "one-woman search party" whose journey would lead her to a mass grave.

The company, maker of the popular ChatGPT chatbot, said its board would be remade without many of the members who had opposed Altman and voted for his removal late last week.

About '105 Miles form Home': The little-known story of the Pedro Pan flights during the early 1960s and the adjustments to American life. A young Cuban girl flees Communism and discovers love and hardships in her new life in America. Related links: San Diego Fringe Festival website | Instagram | Facebook | YouTube