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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, and ...

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 increasingly turned to gardening as a leisure—and predominantly female—pursuit. "The two arts of pa...

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 couldn't 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 Sydney's south, have pleaded guilty to a series of charges relating to their treatment of the woman, including conducting a business invol...

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 couldn't 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 Sydney's south, have pleaded guilty to a series of charges relating to their treatment of the woman, including conducting a business invol...