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CSRC director Chon A. Noriega was quoted in a response to an open letter signed by a number of art professionals calling for a boycott of Swiss artist Christoph Büchel’s proposal to preserve border wall prototypes built in Southern California.
A tribute to Juan Gómez-Quiñones, the passing of two Latina pioneers, a new monograph on Judy Baca from CSRC Press, zine exhibitions, research grants, and more in this month's newsletter! (Image: Poster for Las Causas: Zines from the Chicano Studies Research Center Archive, on view through March 24 in the Powell Library Rotunda)
CSRC director Chon Noriega was quoted in a news story concerning a new campaign by the National Hispanic Media Coalition to draw attention to the underrepresentation of Latinos in Hollywood films.
In a round-up of recent news, the CSRC-organized exhibition Home—So Different, So Appealing was noted in a blurb concerning PST: LA/LA exhibitions that will travel.
ARTnews provided a full list of the Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA exhibitions that are traveling nationally and internationally to other museums. Among the exhibitions mentioned are the CSRC-organized exhibition Home—So Different, So Appealing, and Laura Aguilar: Show and Tell, organized by the Vincent Price Art Museum in collaboration with the CSRC.
Broadway World published the Getty's press release summing up the PST: LA/LA initiative as it approaches its official end date. The CSRC is named as one of the initiative's five planning partners, and CSRC director Chon Noriega is quoted in the release.
The Department of Communication Studies at Colorado State University announced that CSRC director Chon A. Noriega would be this year's Gravlee Lecturer.
The CSRC was mentioned as having partnered with The Autry Musuem of the American West for the La Raza exhibition. The exhibition features extensive images and items from the CSRC’s La Raza photograph and La Raza Magazine collections.
The exhibition La Raza at the Autry Museum, organized in collaboration with the CSRC, was discussed in an article commemorating the East Los Angeles student walkouts of 1968.
ARTnews reported on the announcement of the United States Artists foundation fellows for 2018. Among them is Pepón Osorio. The story notes his installation Badge of Honor (1994) in the CSRC-organized exhibition Home—So Different, So Appealing.