Test 2018 posts
UCLA MFA in Media Arts Is Accepting Applications for Fall 2019
A rigorous environment for bold experimentation in new modes of critical thinking and art making in the context of media and technology.
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Test 2018 posts
UCLA Study Holds Smithsonian Accountable for Better Institutional Latino Representation
A new study evaluates Latino representation across the institution. One of the authors, Chon Noriega, discusses the results and why they are indicative of a widespread problem in the art world.
Art
Curator Helen Molesworth Welcomes the “Death Rattle of Our Colonial Past” in Commencement Address
Molesworth gave a passionate commencement address at the University of California, Los Angeles, in which she railed against white supremacy and "outmoded forms of thought."
Art
The UCLA Game Art Festival Returns with a Whimsical, Political Selection
Now in its fifth year, the UCLA Game Art Festival at the Hammer Museum explores the boundaries of contemporary gaming.
Art
The Masterful, Unsettling Work of a Female Cuban Printmaker
UCLA's Fowler Museum has organized the first solo museum show in the US for Belkis Ayón, a black Cuban artist who was a master of collography.
Interview
Why Are There So Few Black Full Professors of Art History in the US?
Steven Nelson, professor of art history at UCLA, and Director of the African Studies Center, recently tweeted that he is a member of a rare and exceptional group: one of six full professors in art history, who are black, in the United States.
News
#RacistBruin Group Protests UCLA’s Failure to Address Racism, Sexual Violence, and Corporatization
LOS ANGELES — Last Monday, an anonymous group of students at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) took their protest into the latest edition of the Daily Bruin, or at least what resembled the school newspaper.
Art
A Radical '70s Mural Resurfaces ... Next to a Panda Express
LOS ANGELES — I entered UCLA's Ackerman Student Union hoping to blend in with the student body, find my way to a recently uncovered mural, and document the public's reactions with an inconspicuous pinhole camera. But the building is a maze of chain eateries. And, after I pass a Carl's Jr. for the se