Highlights Tour
Learn more about the art on view by taking a tour! Our conversational tours are led by Museum Docents eager to share their knowledge and insight.
Learn more about the art on view by taking a tour! Our conversational tours are led by Museum Docents eager to share their knowledge and insight.
Learn more about the art on view by taking a tour! Our conversational tours are led by Museum Docents eager to share their knowledge and insight.
Learn more about the art on view by taking a tour! Our conversational tours are led by Museum Docents eager to share their knowledge and insight.
Join art appraiser and advisor Elana Rubinfeld as we discuss the latest art world news, trends and gossip.
About Elana Rubinfeld

Elana Rubinfeld is a Certified Art Appraiser with the Appraisers Association of America and is the founder of New Art Agency, an art advisory and appraisal firm based in Sarasota Florida. Since 2003 she has worked as an artist, publicist, gallery director, curator, researcher, artist liaison and, primarily, an art advisor. She has over 20 years of experience working at galleries and institutions such as The Museum of Modern Art, Yossi Milo Gallery and P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center and has curated numerous exhibitions at various institutions including The Orlando Museum of Art, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Sundance Institute, Lever House and SOCO Gallery.
For early learners with an adult, Your Wednesday Playdates deliver an art project led by a professional teaching artist and interactive story times.
Learn more about the art on view by taking a tour! Our conversational tours are led by Museum Docents eager to share their knowledge and insight.
The culinary artists of SAM’s Bistro show off their skill and creativity with a one-night-only dining experience inspired by the art on view.
Learn more about the art on view by taking a tour! Our conversational tours are led by Museum Docents eager to share their knowledge and insight.
Learn more about the art on view by taking a tour! Our conversational tours are led by Museum Docents eager to share their knowledge and insight.
Enjoy a day of art and family fun! On the second Sunday of each month, we offer free admission for visitors, special performances, and art-making activities for the whole family.
Look closely and learn more about the exhibition Eszter Sziksz: Seeking with SAM’s Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art.
Explore the intersection of art and literature. This month, we’ll dive into the book Seeing is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees by Lawrence Weschler.
About Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees
When this book first appeared in 1982, it introduced readers to Robert Irwin, the Los Angeles artist "who one day got hooked on his own curiosity and decided to live it." Now expanded to include six additional chapters and twenty-four pages of color plates, Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees chronicles three decades of conversation between Lawrence Weschler and light and space master Irwin. It surveys many of Irwin's site-conditioned projects―in particular the Central Gardens at the Getty Museum (the subject of an epic battle with the site's principal architect, Richard Meier) and the design that transformed an abandoned Hudson Valley factory into Dia's new Beacon campus―enhancing what many had already considered the best book ever on an artist.