SAN DIEGO, CA.- The San Diego Museum of Art presents today 25 of the finest private art collections in San Diego in a new exhibition titled Personal Views: Regarding Private Collections in San Diego. This diverse display of objects brings important artworks from private homes into the Museum and includes examples by such renowned artists as Claude Monet, Rembrandt van Rijn, and Georgia O’Keeffe. Personal Views opens on October 21, 2006, and runs through January 7, 2007.

In conjunction with SDMA’s groundbreaking exhibition Transmission: The Art of Matta and Gordon Matta-Clark, the Museum is presenting a variety of programs, including a free symposium on Saturday, October 7, Insight Gallery Talks on Thursday, October 12, and Sunday, October 15, and a Docent Guest Lecture on Friday, October 27. Transmission will also be the featured exhibition for this fall’s Culture & Cocktails, taking place on Thursday, October 26.

World music fans can look forward to an internationally-infused Jazz in the Park concert featuring Afro-British-Caribbean vocalist Tessa Souter on Wednesday, October 4. For more jazz tunes from around the world, audiences can return on Tuesday, October 10, for a lecture/demonstration by Union-Tribune music critic George Varga titled “How to Listen to Jazz: Global Perspectives.”