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1-31 As the wise Miss Beyoncé once asked, “Who run the world?” The San Diego Museum of Art reminds us that girls are heading the show in “Modern Women , ” a celebration of 20 masterpieces by female artists like Elaine de Kooning and Françoise Gilot, whose husbands’ careers unfairly eclipsed their triumphs. These ladies are in the well-deserved limelight all month long. sdmart.org 1-5 The Blue Line trolley is a standard mode of public transportation to the masses, but it’s also the touching force behind Armando de La Torre’s latest art installation. The Barrio Logan native takes the trolley from San Ysidro and Tijuana to downtown San Diego,
6-7 The City Ballet of San Diego is taking Shakespeare’s greatest love story, Romeo and Juliet , to the stage at the Center for the Arts Escondido . Choreographer Elizabeth Wistrich pairs her graceful moves with Sergei Prokofiev’s score played by the City Ballet Orchestra in a captivating production that takes us back centuries to Renaissance Italy. artcenter.org 11-31 A sense of “naturalistic wonder” swoops over Melissa Meier when she creates art with botanical elements, such as grains of rice and stalks of lavender. By showcasing her sculptures and photographs in the series Melissa Meier: Becoming Nature at the Oceanside Museum of Art ,
telling the stories of folks just like him. For these people, the trolley is a lifeline to get to work, school, and beyond in “Armando de la Torre: On the Blue Line” at the Athenaeum Art Center . ljathenaeum.org 6 Overzealous German shepherds, snooty schnauzers, heavy-breathing and adorable Frenchies—with lots of room left for the so-ugly- they’re-cute mutts, too. They’re all gathering alongside their humans at the NTC Park in Liberty Station for a good cause: the San Diego Humane Society’s annual Walk for Animals . Every dollar counts— the organization’s fundraising goal of $320,000 will be used to provide animals with shelter and medical care, as well as to find homes for adoptable pets and rescue animals from cruelty and neglect. dwalkforanimals.org
BY ROXANA BECERRIL
102 MAY 2023
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