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The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago has published a catalog to complement the group exhibition Black Is, Black Ain't, which was on view at the Society in 2008. The catalog includes the essay "Babel Screened: On Race, Narcissism, and the Predication of American Video Art" by Huey Copeland, assistant professor of art history at Northwestern University. The photograph "Decoy Gang War Victim" from a 1974 Asco performance is one of the essay's illustrations.
Asco and Friends: Exiled Portraits, organized by Le Cartel and the CSRC and co-curated by Celine Kopp, Chon A. Noriega, and Pilar Tompkins Rivas, has been announced. This is the first major exhibition in France of works by the artist collective Asco, active in Los Angeles from 1972 to 1987. The exhibition will take place March 8 through July 6, 2014 at Tour-Panorama, La Friche la Belle de Mai, Marseille, France.
Alex Ortega, CSRC associate director and professor in the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, was interviewed for a National Public Radio story on the high rates of diabetes among Latinos, and a variety of efforts being made to reduce them.
The exhibition "Asco: No Movies" at the Nottingham Contemporary was reviewed in the December/January issue of Art Monthly, a U.K. publication.