Скачать или смотреть Sneak Peek: Art Alive 2025 at the San Diego Museum of Art

Here’s your first look at this year’s Art Alive rotunda by Waterlily Pond, a 1,500-pound feat of engineering and design that couldn’t be more fitting for this year’s event theme, Celebrating Art and Architecture.

The 40-foot-tall kinetic sculpture is the first glorious sight you see at SDMA's Art Alive, which opens to the public today at noon and runs through April 27. Art Alive is one of the city’s biggest art events: a perfumed weekend of programming, and the foremost fundraiser for museum’s exhibitions, education, and outreach.

Rotunda designers Natasha Lisitsa and Daniel Schultz are a wife-and-husband team; they own Waterlily Pond in San Francisco, and are internationally renowned for their floral installations, which blur the lines between sculpture and floral art. This is the duo’s second Art Alive; in 2018, they crafted a rotating copper helix for the rotunda. But they’ve outdone themselves–this year’s design weighs nearly a ton, and it oscillates to show off 12,000 stems of flowers, each installed by hand.

Every year, the museum taps local floral designers to translate works of art from the museum’s collection into floral form. (Hence the name “Art Alive.”) Some artists go literal, some go abstract, but each design will make you stop, think, and appreciate the original piece in a new way.

Art Alive is a hands-on experience, too; the Garden of Activities, open Saturday and Sunday, invites all ages to explore intersections of botanicals, art, and architecture with hands-on projects and music and art stations.

And tonight, SDMA throws the party of the spring: Bloom Bash. It’s a sold-out soirée with craft cocktails, canapés, arty conversation, music, dancing, a Ferris wheel, the whole nine yards.

Get your Art Alive tickets and more info at https://www.sdmart.org/artalive/.