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Asco: No Movies, an exhibition of works by the artist collective Asco, active in Los Angeles from 1972 to 1987, opened at the Notting Contemporary in Nottingham, England (October 13, 2013 – January 5, 2014) before travelling to De Appel Arts Centre in Amsterdam (February 8 – April 13, 2014).
Excitement for the exhibition led to media coverage by websites and magazines across the Netherlands.
As reported by the Los Angeles Times, the faculty of UCLA’s College of Letters and Sciences voted in favor of requiring future undergraduates to take one course exposing them to ethnic, cultural, religious or gender diversity.
A story on the lecture presented at Cornell University on October 28 by CSRC director Chon A. Noriega. In the lecture, "Cornell on Trial: The University and the Creative Arts Revisited," Noriega reflected on an exhibition he co-curated in 1993 that inadvertently exposed racial tensions on the campus concerning Latino students and faculty, and ultimately led to the expansion of the university's Latino Studies Program and the creation of its Latino Living Center.
The Daily Bruin previewed the performance "Spine of Califas" by members of Taco Shop Poets and Los Illegals, an event that took place October 24 at Powell Library and was organized by the CSRC.
The CSRC congratulates Ernesto Chávez, associate professor of history at the University of Texas, El Paso and this year’s CSRC visiting researcher through the UCLA Institute of American Cultures, on receiving a 2014 Equity Award (Individual) from the American Historical Association. Equity Awards are given to individuals and institutions that have achieved excellence in recruiting and retaining underrepresented racial and ethnic groups into the history profession.
CSRC director Chon A. Noriega is the 2014 Los Angeles recipient of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund's (MALDEF) Excellence in Community Service award.
CSRC director Chon Noriega was a visiting scholar at Cornell when he co-curated an art exhibition that sparked a student revolution. He will reflect on those events in a sesquicentennial talk titled “‘Cornell on Trial’: The University and the Creative Arts, Revisited,” Oct. 28 at 4:30 p.m. in the English Department Lounge, 258 Goldwin Smith Hall.
On October 19, Nancy Katano, Executive Director of Corporate, Foundation and Research Relations at UCLA, was a guest on the radio program "The Artist's Way with Mark Bryan." She cited the CSRC's A Ver: Revisioning Art History series as an example of a creative project that has succeeded due to innovative thinking and financial planning.
A review of artist Ramon Ramirez's solo exhibition City of Love, on view at Wallspace gallery in Los Angeles through October 27. The review mentions the Artist’s Communiqué in the Fall 2013 issue of Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies that focused on Ramirez.
Vilma Ortiz and Edward Telles's book Generations of Exclusion: Mexican Americans, Assimilation, and Race was cited in a story about the "U-turn" of third generation children of immigrants, a generation that a recent study indicates is losing the economic gains of their parents.