News
The Hollywood Reporter put a spotlight on several upcoming art shows in Los Angeles, one being the LA Art Show, which showcased several institutions participating in Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA, including the CSRC.
The UCLA Newsroom reported on CSRC associate director Charlene Villaseñor Black’s receipt of a $35,000 grant from the Albert and Elaine Borchard Foundation to organize an international colloquium titled “Renaissance Futurities: Science, Art, Invention.”
The Los Angeles Times reported on the new slate of on-site programming from eight Southern California art institutions, including the CSRC, at this year’s LA Art Show.
Alejandro Anreus author of Luis Cruz Azaceta, part the CSRC Press’s A Ver series, discusses his book as well as his current project Luis Cruz Azaceta: Dictators, Terrorism, War and Exile, a new exhibition he is curating at the American Museum of Cuban Diaspora in Miami.
A photo of Raphael Montañez Ortiz performing a piano destruction concert is featured in a preview of the 2017 LA Art Show provided by Kim Martindale, the producer of the event.
CSRC director Chon Noriega was quoted in a piece on the 2017 LA Art Show’s 50,000 square-foot section of the fair dedicated to programming by Southern California museums and the CSRC.
CSRC director Chon Noriega is quoted in an Instagram post by the LA Art Show in which he discusses the “Fragments from Home” program at the LA Art Show, featuring installations and performances by Ramiro Gomez and Raphael Montañez Ortiz.
CSRC director Chon Noriega wrote a piece for the Huffington Post discussing the CSRC’s participation in the upcoming LA Art Show running January 11-15 at the L.A. Convention Center.
In December 2016, Holly Barnet-Sanchez and Tim Drescher released their book Give me Life: Iconography and Identity in East L.A. Murals (University of New Mexico Press), which was researched in part at the CSRC.
CSRC curates performances and installations at LA Art Show, new crowdfunding campaign for "Home--So Different, So Appealing," CSRC librarian meets the Mayor, fellowship and grants opportunities, and more, in this month's newsletter!
(Image: Mayor Eric Garcetti, CSRC librarian Xaviera Flores, and LAPL city librarian John F. Szabo)