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UC Irvine Takes Over Orange County Museum of Art
The merger will combine both institutions’ holdings to establish a collection of over 9,000 artworks.
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The Political Was Personal for Yong Soon Min
An exhibition showcases the late artist’s lifelong commitment to considering the relationship between the unremitting Korean War and her own diasporic identity.
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UCI MFAs Challenge Institutional Display
The inquiries of three recent MFA graduates illuminate what much of the art world, easily seduced by decorative abstraction, misses.
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Uncovering Hidden Spaces at UCI’s Open Studios
Seeing the works by the University of California, Irvine’s MFA students, many of which use leftover material site-specific to the campus, lead me to wonder if they also constitute a kind of leftover material of time.
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Hopeful and Aware: MFA Work From CalArts and UC Irvine
The inescapability of the pandemic infiltrates each gesture and concern of the recent MFAs.
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Six Black Artists Test the Limits of Portraiture
"The Black Index" at UC Irvine pursues knottier narratives of self-representation.
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Thinking About Information Technology as an Evolution in Language
With roots in activism, accessibility, and design, Spectacular Grammar considers technology's progressive potential for empowerment.
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Politics of Space and Belonging and the Right of Return
IRVINE, California – There is a call for Jews to return to Poland — and it’s coming out of Irvine. Well, actually it’s coming from Israeli artist Yael Bartana, whose trilogy … and Europe Will Be Stunned, which occupied the Polish pavilion at the Venice Biennale this year, is currently having its Ame