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The Santa Barbara Museum of Art will hold a grand reopening Sunday. Admission is free.

The Santa Barbara Museum of Art (SBMA) has announced the August 15, 2021 grand re-opening of its renewed and expanded galleries following a six-year, $50 million renovation, led by the Santa Barbara-based firm of Kupiec Architects PC and executed by Santa Maria-based Diani Corporation. Marking the Museum’s 80th anniversary this year, the renovation of SBMA’s original 1912 building improves SBMA’s exhibition space, making it possible to show more of the 27,000-object permanent collection, ...

Inspired by European impressionist paintings of open countryside, private gardens, and urban parks, American artists working in the years between 1887 and 1920 turned their attentions to the new landscapes being created in the fast-changing cities and rapidly emerging suburbs of their own country. Up and down the eastern seaboard, a middle-class idyll was brought to life with the construction of railways, trams, and parkways that connected city centers to commuter suburbs, whose inhabitants inc...

A woman who was brought to Australia by a Sydney couple, who forced her to work 24 hours a day and restricted who she could see and where she could go, has revealed what her life was like as a slave. Court documents reveal she was threatened against leaving, told she couldnt socialise with others and, when she eventually fled the home, the couple hired a private detective to track her down and bring her back. Joshua and Shiela McAleer, from Rockdale in Sydneys south, have pleaded guilty to a...

A woman who was brought to Australia by a Sydney couple, who forced her to work 24 hours a day and restricted who she could see and where she could go, has revealed what her life was like as a slave. Court documents reveal she was threatened against leaving, told she couldnt socialise with others and, when she eventually fled the home, the couple hired a private detective to track her down and bring her back. Joshua and Shiela McAleer, from Rockdale in Sydneys south, have pleaded guilty to a...

A woman who was brought to Australia by a Sydney couple, who forced her to work 24 hours a day and restricted who she could see and where she could go, has revealed what her life was like as a slave. Court documents reveal she was threatened against leaving, told she couldnt socialise with others and, when she eventually fled the home, the couple hired a private detective to track her down and bring her back. Joshua and Shiela McAleer, from Rockdale in Sydneys south, have pleaded guilty to a...

Items available include:  »  An exclusive event with SBMA curators in the renovated museum galleries, including the Photography and New Media galleries, Asian Art gallery, and others.  » An elegant Artful Affairs event at unique private estates in Santa Barbara, where winner will view private art collections.  » Sailing in the Greek Isles on Aegean Sea and Peloponnese Peninsula aboard Sea Cloud II with popular SBMA study leader Nigel McGilchrist (July 11-20, 2022).  » A tour of galleri...

A Filipino woman who was hired by an Australian couple to clean and care for their family says she was kept like a slave in that she was forced to work in the pair’s grocery shop and had restrictions placed on where she was allowed to go. And when she managed to escape from their southern Sydney home, the husband and wife hired a private detective to track her down and bring her back. DOMINIC LORRIMER/Sydney Morning Herald Joshua McAleer sought the assistance of a private investigator in fin...

Appalachian State and UNC Greensboro are heading to the NCAA tournament By Matthew Stephens | The Charlotte Observer | March 8, 2021 at 11:03 PM EST - Updated March 8 at 11:03 PM CHARLOTTE, N.C. (The Charlotte Observer) - The first two tickets from North Carolina to the NCAA tournament have been punched, and no one saw the second team coming. Moments after conference favorite UNC Greensboro topped Mercer for the SoCon championship, fourth-seeded Appalachian State upset top-seed Georgia Stat...

ASHEVILLE, N.C. (AP) — Isaiah Miller scored 25 points, grabbed 12 rebounds and had six assists as top-seeded UNC Greensboro earned a berth in the NCAA Tournament with a 69-61 win over seventh-seeded Mercer on Monday night in the Southern Conference championship. Tied with less than four minutes to play, Miller scored six points in an 8-0 run for the game’s largest lead at 66-58 with 1:15 to play. But the Spartans struggled from the foul line, which kept the Bears alive, especially after Leo...