September 10 - September 14, 2025

Villa Medici, Rome, Italy

Since its creation in 2021, Villa Medici Film Festival has explored the links between cinema and contemporary art. The International Competition presents twelve recent films of all genres and lengths. At the end of the festival week, two prizes are awarded by the jury at a ceremony attended by the public and artists: the Villa Medici Prize for Best Film and the Special Jury Prize.

September 19, 9:00 - 10:00 a.m.

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Visual Arts PhD Director, Malik Gaines, will give an overview of the PhD program and will be available to answer questions. The Visual Arts PhD Program grants two PhD degrees: Art History, Theory and Criticism and Art History, Theory and Criticism with a Concentration in Art Practice. The program embodies the department's commitment to innovative research by embracing the close intersection of art, media, and design practice with history, theory, and criticism.

September 19, 2025 – December 14, 2025

The Nest, UC San Diego Library 

Here, Now 여기, 지금 highlights publications on the Korean War from historical and artistic perspectives, as well as unique materials related to the Korean War and the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ). The exhibition features special collections from the University of Southern California (USC)’s Korean Heritage Library, the University of Michigan (U-M)’s Asia Library, and the Storefront for Art and Architecture in New York. 

September 19, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.

Amant, Brooklyn, NY

Building on his influential 1988 essay FACE(T)S: Notes on Faciality, art historian and theorist John C. Welchman traces the shifting significance of the face across epochs, regimes, artistic movements, and philosophical frameworks. Arguing that the face is not merely a symbol or sign but also territory and a projective fiction—a surface or imagination saturated with religious, political, and aesthetic meaning—Welchman offers a longform reading of faciality as a site of ideological and representational conflict.

September 19, 2025 - August 31, 2026

Taipei Fine Arts Museum Net.Open

The digital age’s promises of unlimited access, transparency, and horizontality have been rapidly evaporating before our eyes. Layer by layer, the supposedly harmless digital technologies have revealed their true nature. One that has never been immaterial, weightless, infallible, accurate, sustainable, or immaculate, despite the efforts to convince us otherwise.

September 20 - September 21, 2025

Good Shepherd Studios, London, UK

The Slow Film Festival gives a platform to filmmakers whose work engages with time and duration on screen. The festival is a space to view and discuss films that are pushing the boundaries of “slow film” as well as those that have defined its history. It aims to be a meeting point where the uses of duration in film can be debated and where new friendships and potential collaborations can take root.

September 6 - October 25, 2025

Gallery Luisotti, Los Angeles, CA

Gallery Luisotti is delighted to announce Arlene Mejorado’s inaugural solo exhibition with the gallery. The show is a culmination of years of cultural, geographical, and familial investigations by Mejorado of the place she has called home since her birth and the various archives left behind by her relatives.

August 28 - December 1, 2025

Arts & Humanities Bldg. 1st floor, UC San Diego

Inspired by Eduardo Galleano’s poetry, this year's PATH Art Exhibit is inspired by his poem The World that describes: “The world is that—he revealed—A cluster of people, a sea of little fires. Each person shines with their own light among all others. No two fires are alike.” A Sea of Little Fires is the theme for this year’s exhibit. Join us for an exhibit that celebrates the different ways in which people shine in this world and bring light to the world.

July 1 - September 27, 7:00 a.m. - 10:00 p.m. daily

Mandeville Art Gallery, UC San Diego

Comprised of works by digital artists displaying text manipulated and hijacked using programming and code. The words, phrases, and typography presented on view reveal the influence of machines on the production of meaning and the exercise of power within the context of social media, advertising, online censorship, and artificial intelligence. Participating Artists: Maya Man, Winnie Soon, Sasha Stiles.

October 4, 2024 - Ongoing

Birch Aquarium at Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Embodied Pacific: Ocean Unseen invites you to explore Scripps Institution of Oceanography and Indigenous science through the eyes of contemporary artists. Collectively, the exhibition asks us to consider how ocean science technology is not just about “high-tech” but also very much about the tools we use to shape our understanding of the ocean’s unseen mysteries.

August 1 - September 13, 2025

Level of Service/Not Required, La Jolla, CA

This is a show about the fluff that is filling and wrapping the story structures of our lives, at each step, at each level - from being born to falling in love, to finding a passion, getting ill, and passing on. This is a show about everything and anything that is in between these common pylons of our existence, everything and anything important and insignificant at the same time.

July 12 - September 13, 2025

The Front Gallery, San Ysidro, CA

Casa Familiar is proud to announce the opening of a new art exhibition which explores artisanal practices, traditions and crafts that have been passed from person to person through generations. The works show that while artisanal practices and traditions are passed down, sometimes those traditions are kept intact for thousands of years, and sometimes they are in constant evolution.