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Edgar Miramontes has been named the new executive and artistic director of UCLA’s Center for the Art of Performance!

Miramontes comes to CAP UCLA from
REDCAT - Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater, where he has served as deputy executive director and curator since 2019, and associate director from 2013-2019.

UCLA makes a historic pick to lead its Center for the Art of Performance CAP UCLA names Edgar Miramontes executive and artistic director, making him the organization's first leader of color since its founding in 1936.

UCLA Department of Art professor and department chair Catherine Opie's exhibition "Binding Ties" at Heide Museum of Modern Art is her first survey in Australia, showcasing three decades of work with central themes of gender, sexuality, and q***r culture.

Catherine Opie's Eye for Identity at Heide Museum of Modern Art Catherine Opie's photographs investigate modern perspectives on gender, sexuality, and q***r cultures with reference to the artist's personal history.

Nuestro Stories highlighted the lifetime achievements of UCLA World Arts and Cultures/Dance emerita professor Judy Baca, infusing the stories of "marginalized and overlooked communities of Los Angeles" starting with her first mural.

The Life and Times of a Chicana Icon: Judy Baca Credit: Nuestro Stories The city of Los Angeles remains iconic and distinctly unique thanks to the multitude of colorful and meaningful murals scattered across this city's vast landscape. And, as Los Angelenos will attest, when it

UCLA Department of Art professor Anna Sew Hoy presents an exhibition at SFMOMA, highlighting her interest “in turning things inside out to explore the relationship between the exterior world and interior space and the inevitable porousness between them.”

New Work: Anna Sew Hoy Los Angeles–based sculptor Anna Sew Hoy’s Growing Ruins rise from the floor in a mesmerizing tangle of hand-built clay arches, found metal cages, and detritus ranging from charging cords to denim scraps.

UCLA Architecture and Urban Design students Sijie Ji, Wanying Li, and Clytie Hoi Ting Mak, have been selected as part of Metropolis magazine's Future 100 list of the top graduating architecture and interior design students in the U.S. and Canada.

UCLA Architecture and Urban Design: MArch students Sijie Ji, Wanying Li, and Clytie Hoi Ting Mak named to the 2023 Metropolis Future 100 UCLA Architecture and Urban Design is a champion of ideas and their articulate expression.

UCLA Art alumnus Eamon Ore-Giron is a featured artist in "Rising Sun: Artists in an Uncertain America" exhibition, inviting artist to respond to the question: “Is the sun rising or setting on the experiment of American democracy?”

Rising Sun: Artists in an Uncertain America Exhibition - EVENT The African American Museum in Philadelphia and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts present Rising Sun: Artists in an Uncertain America, an exhibition of new works by 20 artists invited to respond to the question: “Is the sun rising or setting on the experiment of American democracy?”

The Fowler Museum unveiled its new exhibition with Haitian artist Myrlande Constant Art on the drapo Vodou tradition, marking her as the first Haitian woman to have a solo show in a major U.S. Museum.

Myrlande Constant exhibition honors the labor of working-class artists A retrospective of textile artist Myrlande Constant has opened at UCLA's Fowler Museum. Curators say it's the first solo show of a Haitian woman at an American museum.

UCLA Department of Art assistant professor Candice Lin is a featured artist in the "signals...storms and patterns" exhibition, analyzing modes of kinetic art, communication, actions, and interventions to create a chain of reactions through May 28.

Exhibition | 'signals' at Para Site, Hong Kong View images of the exhibition and selected artworks. 'signals' at Para Site, Hong Kong on 18 Mar–28 May 2023.

UCLA World Arts and Cultures/Dance emerita professor Judy Baca was awarded the National Medal of Arts for "the pursuit of excellence, the drive to create, the yearning to connect and the boldness to be truth tellers, bridge builders and change seekers.”

Biden Brings the Stars to the White House The president bestowed National Medals of Arts and National Humanities Medals to a host of celebrated musicians, actors, writers and other figures.

Ann Philbin, director of the Hammer Museum, discusses with W Magazine the challenges of the Museum's renovation project and how the expanded space will enable the Hammer to present a greater range of exhibitions and events.

Ann Philbin on Renovating the Hammer Museum and Her Midcentury Home L.A.’s Hammer Museum is set to finalize a series of careful renovations. The director’s home in Beverly Hills underwent a similarly meticulous process.

UCLA Department of Architecture and Urban Design alumnus Claus Benjamin Freyinger (M.Arch '05) and his LA-based practice The LADG have notched the cover of Dwell magazine’s March/April 2023 issue, starring a recently completed Larchmont Village project.

Sometimes Building Your Dream Home Means Putting a Pole Through Your Pool A designer and his client tell us about the compromises required to create a home worthy of being on the cover of an architecture magazine.

Earlier this month, the Fowler Museum presented a screening of the documentary "Abuelita’s Kitchen: Mexican Food Stories," highlighting the significance of food within the Mexican American experience in Los Angeles.

The Magic of the "Abuelita" — The | Corsair Award-winning documentary celebrates Mexican food and the “abuelitas” who make it.

UCLA Design Media Arts Research Professor Rebecca Allen presents 'A Tangle of Mind & Matter' exhibition, bringing together “pioneering artworks from half a century of innovation with the overarching goal of inspiring the digital creatives of tomorrow."

Digital art pioneer Rebecca Allen presents A Tangle of Mind & Matter at the Modal Gallery Rebecca Allen has been at the forefront of digital art, playing an integral role in shaping how we experience the world through technology.

UCLA Department of Art Alumnus Meleko Mokgosi unveiled his ‘Imaging Imaginations’ exhibition at Art Gallery of York University, presenting four multi-panel paintings and prints that confront notions of subjecthood through theories of the subconscious.

Meleko Mokgosi Challenges Tropes of Mastery At Art Gallery of York University, Toronto, the multi-panel paintings and prints confront notions of subjecthood through theories of the subconscious

UCLA Department of Art professor Candice Lin is a featured artist at MIT List Visual Arts Center’s exhibition "Symbionts: Contemporary Artists and the Biosphere," looking at attempts to forge humble, reciprocal relationships with other-than-human agents.

Microbes and Mushrooms Take a Star Turn in Bio Art Show at MIT The term “bio art” is often linked to works from the late 1990s and early 2000s that involved the manipulation of genetic code. One might recall Eduardo Kac’s fluorescent bunny or the ear implanted…

UCLA Department of Art professor Andrea Fraser recently wrapped her exhibition at the Marian Goodman Gallery in New York, featuring a “provocative and self-reflexive approach to examining national, cultural, and social identity.”

Andrea Fraser Our inaugural exhibition with Andrea Fraser presents a small survey of Fraser’s work from the late 1980s, 1990s and early 2000s, as well as the New York premiere of a new video installation.

The opera and film worlds collide in "Peter Sellars: This Body is So Impermanent," a film Sellars directed at the height of the pandemic, exploring health and illness through the “Vimalakirta Sutra,” a foundational Buddhist text.

Opera Meets Film: Peter Sellars' 'this body is so impermanent' - OperaWire Explore the spiritual journey of health and illness through a Buddhist text in Peter Sellars' film, "this body is so impermanent."

UCLA Art alumnus Eamon Ore-Giron is presenting an exhibition “Eamon Ore-Giron: Competing With Lightning / Rivalizando Con El Relámpago” at The Contemporary Austin on March 3, exploring Latin American identity, politics, and cultural heritage.

The Contemporary Austin presents "Eamon Ore-Giron: Competing with Lightning / Rivalizando con el Relámpago" opening day The Contemporary Austin presents "Eamon Ore-Giron: Competing With Lightning / Rivalizando Con El Relámpago", an exhibition tracing the evolution of artist Eamon Ore-Giron's dynamic paintings over more than 20 years of creative practice. Exploring the complex layering of identities, histories, and a...

Japan House's "Designing with Disaster" exhibit showcases UCLA Architecture and Urban Design professor Hitoshi Abe exploring innovative solutions for designing cities that are resilient in the face of natural disasters and other challenges.

Museum Exhibit Presents Bold Concepts for Resilient Cities Japan House exhibit in Los Angeles showcases ways to incorporate nature—even natural disasters—into regenerative urban design.

UCLA Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance alumna Kristina Wong is one of six recipients of this year’s Doris Duke Artist Awards— a no-strings-attached prize of $550,000.

This comedian just won a $550,000 prize. Up next: A boundary-pushing Culver City show In 2020, Kristina Wong mobilized a network of volunteers to sew masks for front-line workers. The solo show she wrote about that experience, 'Sweatshop Overlord,' is now playing at Kirk Douglas Theatre.

The 14th Gwangju Biennale "soft and weak like water" features works by UCLA Department of Art assistant professor Candice Lin that explore the themes of softness, fragility, and the geopolitical undercurrents of power dynamics through various mediums.

14th Gwangju Biennale: soft and weak like water - Announcements - e-flux Titled soft and weak like water, the 14th Gwangju Biennale will unfold over five venues throughout the city of Gwangju: the Gwangju Biennale Exhibition Hall, Gwangju National Museum, Horanggasy Artpolygon, Mugaksa, and Artspace House.

UCLA Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance professor Victoria Marks was featured in an article by Dance International discussing the complexity of dance and how it can highlight the lived human experiences of people with varied physical abilities.

Integrating Abilities: Victoria Marks pursues alliances and beauty - Dance International Magazine The questions Victoria Marks asks of dance can draw us into her work as forcefully as the firmest declarations. What stories should set a work in motion?

UCLA Department of Art professor and chair Catherine Opie was interviewed by Interview Magazine, discussing her approach to portrait photography and her perspective on capturing the essence of her subjects.

For Brigitte Lacome and Catherine Opie, People Are Portraits Waiting to Happen At the opening of their ICP exhibition, the legendary photographers talk dream subjects, their growing friendship, and the art of portraiture.

UCLA Arts professor Candice Lin is a featured artist in the "Thick as Mud" exhibition at Henry Art Gallery, exploring mud's cultural and historical significance and the ways it has been used in art, architecture, and daily life across cultures and times.

‘Thick as Mud’ at the Henry Art Gallery shows that mud is more than just a material Mud is more than a material; it is also a subject — the subject of memory, of lives lived and lives lost, of places and their stories. It is both

UCLA Arts Alumna Nikita Gale was a recipient of the 2022 Biennial Grants from the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, recognizing emerging artists who are making a significant impact in the art world with their innovative and boundary-pushing work. The grants provide an “unrestricted purse of $20,000 to produce new work that will then be documented in a catalog published in the spring.”

Artist Award Roundup: Ebony G. Patterson Wins High Museum’s Driskell Prize, Creative Capital Names 2023 Awardees, and More Creative Capital named the winners of its 2023 grants.

UCLA Design Media Arts alumnus and visiting lecturer Refik Anadol presented his immersive artwork "Machine Hallucinations" as the backdrop for the 2023 Grammys, utilizing artificial intelligence algorithms to transform data into a dynamic visual display.

Why A.I. Artist Refik Anadol Was the Real Breakout Star of the 65th Grammy Awards | Artnet News Digital artist Refik Anadol's swirling data paintings served as the colorful backdrop at the 2023 Grammy Awards in Los Angeles.

UCLA Department of Art professor emerita Barbara Kruger is a featured artist at Blanton Museum of Art's "Day Jobs" exhibition. It is the first major exhibition on the impact of day jobs on art history, demonstrating that the side hustle is nothing new for artists.

Artists Have Long Held Day Jobs to Make Ends Meet. A New Exhibition Makes the Case That Side Gigs Also Fuel Creativity | Artnet News "Day Jobs" will be on view at the Blanton Museum of Art, the University of Texas at Austin