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The Big Exchange returns to San Diego with free admission access to museum members all over the county.

Ravi Coutinho bought a health insurance plan thinking it would give him access to mental health providers. But even after 21 phone calls and multiple hospitalizations, no one could find him a therapist.

Drawing on her background in neuroscience and architecture, artist and UC San Diego Professor Dr. Pinar Yoldas (b. Denizli, Turkey) has built a practice of speculative design that imagines new products, appendages, and creatures in the service of a more compassionate culture. While Yoldas has shown extensively in Europe for nearly two decades, this show will be Yoldas’s first solo museum exhibition in the United States. At ICA Central, Yoldas is producing several new projects, including photo bioreactor systems that transform algae into a biodegradable plastic alternative. In addition, she will debut CATGPT–a companion video to her 2016 work, The Kitty AI– that considers the relationship between AI and human creativity. Yoldas will create an immersive experience that illuminates the connections between technology, creativity, and human desire in contemporary life. “If we ask ourselves what drives technological progress,” Yoldas explains, “we can see that it is as much our collective desires –wealth, longevity, beauty– as it is our collective needs, such as access to clean water, food, and shelter.” This exhibition invites us to consider how desire and emotion can combine with technology to create a more just and compassionate future. ICA CentralSaturday, Feb. 24 - Sunday, June 23, 2024 Hours: Thursday–Sunday Noon to 5 p.m. Monday–Wednesday Closed Visit: icasandiego.org/art/pinar-yoldas-synaptic-sculpture/ ICA San Diego on Facebook / Instagam

Pontius Pilate, the Roman governor of Judaea from 26-37 CE, is an unlikely movie star. Yet because of his role in the Passion narrative, he has appeared in dozens of films and TV programs. In these productions, in which Jesus stands for eternal values, Pilate represents the morals of the modern day. In this talk, we will look at representations of Pilate from Cecil B. DeMille’s silent film "King of Kings" (1927) to the rock musical "Jesus Christ Superstar" (1973) to Mel Gibson’s provocative "Passion of the Christ" (2003). What has Pilate meant for audiences in different periods? What does he mean to us today? What is truth? Sponsored by the Classical Studies Program and the Department of Theology and Religious Studies. For information on parking, visit www.sandiego.edu/parking/parking-information/guests.php

Learn to basketweave with Marsha Orr! The Lace Collar basket presents many traditional weaving techniques in a small project (5” x 8”) that can be accomplished in an afternoon. Weaving techniques include creating a solid woven base, twining, over-under interrupted weave, 3-Rod wale, and the final flourish, creating a beautiful braided rim. The basket can be woven in natural reed, stained, or dyed reed can be added for color. Additional colors of reed will be available in class for students to weave with. All techniques are demonstrated during the class. Students: Please bring sturdy scissors and an old towel if you can! No experience necessary. Ages 16+ welcome. For more information visit: sandiegocraft.org Stay Connected on Facebook / Instagram

This lecture develops a theory of ‘postcapitalist aesthetics’, specifically within the context of rural landscapes. The theory brings a relational and pluralistic environmental aesthetics into conversation with various concepts, ‘postpastoral’, ‘socionatures’, and ‘commoning’, before exploring how some art practices may support human-ecological relationships of care and resistance. Emily Brady is Professor of Philosophy at Texas A&M University. Her research expertise extends to aesthetics and philosophy of art, environmental philosophy and eighteenth-century philosophy. Her most recent book is Between Nature and Culture: The Aesthetics of Modified Environments (2018, with Isis Brook and Jonathan Prior). Cosponsored by the Values Institute and the Humanities Center. For information on parking, visit here.

As part of the Humanities Center’s series on The Frozen Realms, the Humanities Center presents a weeklong showing of Braden King and Laura Moya’s remarkable film about the most westerly point in the United States: "Dutch Harbor", in the Aleutian Islands of Alaska. Accompanied by a memorable score of music by Michael Krassner and the Boxhead Ensemble, the film’s stark and haunting images capture the threatened way of life of a landscape described here as “the last place to go.” The gallery is open Monday through Friday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. For information on parking, visit here!

The players had just received their medals for the mixed doubles competition in table tennis when one of the South Korean athletes produced a cellphone for a modern Olympic tradition: a group photo at the podium.

Two upcoming dates: Sunday, Feb 11 -or- Sunday, March 10, from 1-4 p.m. Join us in the woodshop for this 3-hour kumiko skill-building workshop! Kumiko is an ancient Japanese woodworking technique of assembling individual pieces of wood, without the use of nails, into geometric patterns. Kumiko has been used in constructing shoji screens, latticework, and other decorative elements in traditional Japanese architecture. In this workshop, students will learn the basics of kumiko, including the use of hand tools to cut the pieces and assemble the frame. Each student will work on a small project to finish and take home. Materials are provided. We recommend students bring their own eye protection, ear protection & apron. No experience necessary. Ages 18+ welcome. • Military and sibling discounts • Scholarships available For more information visit: sandiegocraft.org Stay Connected on Facebook / Instagram

As America prepares to see its first giant pandas in years at the San Diego Zoo, the city of San Diego is alerting residents and visitors Wednesday of the potential for increased traffic around Balboa Park.