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Artist India Thompson Weaves New Meaning into Everyday Items
1+ hour, 17+ min ago (1903+ words) On view at Mingei International Museum now through October 18, Thompson's basketry invites viewers to notice the seemingly mundane When was the last time you really looked at your fridge? Not for milk or ketchup or that takeout you hope is…...
The Eight Architects Who Defined Modernism In San Diego
2+ week, 9+ hour ago (499+ words) But this version of the story is redacted, metaphorically speaking. While the jazz hands of Hollywood and its hills cast a spell on historians and architecture buffs, San Diego had, and has, its own quiet evolution: It invented and reinvented…...
First Friday Art Walk Oceanside " Season Kickoff
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (147+ words) San Diego Magazine First Friday Art Walk Oceanside " Season Kickoff Boost to your brand by enhancing your customer base, expanding your outreach, and increasing your influence. We believe in keeping the creative process enjoyable, and that's why we bring cookies…...
Home Design: The Newest Trends Hitting the San Diego Scene
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (493+ words) Clients are now reaching for comfortable outdoor spaces that can be controlled for subtle shifts in the environment'heated covered porches, or patios with controlled louvered ceilings with integrated fans, lighting, heaters, and adjustable light." "Mark Morris, Oasis Architecture & Design I…...
An Ode to Horton Plaza's Architectural Insanity
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (281+ words) Why? Because between writing sci-fi novels about book burners and vagrants with tattoos that predicted our dystopian downfall, Ray Bradbury took time to build a mall in San Diego. In the 1980s, malls were silly and essential boot camps for American…...
Mashonda Tifrere Launches Two New Art Exhibits in San Diego
10+ mon, 1+ week ago (598+ words) If you don't like the culture, then you need to create a culture that you like," Mashonda Tifrere told her son when preparing him for college. Tifrere, who is the founder and leader of two art-based nonprofits, currently has two…...
Faith Ringgold's Radical Imagination Returns to La Jolla
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (375+ words) Opened on February 28, Full Circle is free to the public and remains on view through May 1. Art lovers have a fleeting window to experience a small fraction of Ringgold's historic and urgently present larger body of work. Ringgold had a…...
San Diego Magazine's Home + Design Award Winners, 2026
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (195+ words) Our readers weighed in, too, voting on the spaces and designs that wow'ed them. Take a moment to explore the awardees here and marvel at San Diego's outstanding design community. Nakhshab Development & Design " Cardiff Residence Julie Crosby Design " Esperia Esteban…...
Artist Maha Bazzari Captures San Diego Architecture in Photos
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (169+ words) We live in a world of shapes. Look up, and you'll notice it: the clean lines of your office building, the sharp angles of the neighborhood gym, the tidy symmetry of the bungalow down the street. San Diego architecture is…...
Publisher's Note: Savor the Details, April 2026
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (435+ words) It's what makes everything cool." His explanation'that design is what makes a thing cool'gave me pause. It sounded at once too simple and too broad. What's cool to you may not be cool to me. Say more," I pressed. Eric…...