Lecture to cover Ed and Nancy Kienholz’s art

SANTA BARBARA – A lecture will be given about the sculptures of Ed and Nancy Kienholz at 5:30 p.m. Thursday at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1130 State St.

The talk will be presented by James Glisson, the museum’s curator of Contemporary Art. This will be in conjunction with the exhibition scenes from “Marriage: Ed and Nancy Kienholz.”

Ed Kienholz (1927-1994) and Nancy Reddin Kienholz (19432019) made sculptures consisting of commentary about American

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The lecture is free for students and Museum Circle members. It will be $10 for SBMA members and $15 for nonmembers. To purchase, visit tickets.sbma.net.

— Annika Bahnsen