News
March 28, 2013
CSRC director Chon A. Noriega will join the California State Parks Foundation’s Honorary Committee for the organization's 2013 Hidden Stories conference.
March 22, 2013
ABC News/Univision profiled artist Ramiro Gomez and his recent installations in Washington DC, with additional mention of Gomez's exhibition at the CSRC.
March 21, 2013
The KCET-TV newsprogram "SoCal Connected" interviewed artist Ramiro Gomez about his work and exhibition at the CSRC.
March 18, 2013
CSRC visiting scholar Alvaro Huerta had an opinion piece on immigration reform published in the "Bradenton Herald" (FL) that was then republished in "UCLA Today."
March 18, 2013
National Public Radio's "Weekend Edition" featured a story on Arhoolie Records that included a mention of the Strachwitz Frontera Collection of Mexican and Mexican American Recordings at UCLA, an extensive digital archive produced in part by the CSRC. UCLA also reported on the coverage in its Daily Media roll.
To hear the story with music, click here.
March 15, 2013
Artist Freddy Rodriguez, who will be the subject of a forthcoming volume in the CSRC's A Ver book series, recently held an exhibition of his works in Tokyo and dedicated the show to the victims of the 2011 Japanese tsunami. In a rare public appearance, the Empress of Japan attended the exhibition.
March 11, 2013
The CSRC mourns the passing of Raymond L. Telles, a pioneer in Mexican American civic leadership. Telles was also the father of Cynthia A. Telles, director of the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute Spanish Speaking Psychosocial Clinic at the David Geffen School of Medicine and a good friend of the CSRC.
March 7, 2013
CSRC director Chon A. Noriega is interviewed in an AFPTV video segment on street artist Ramiro Gomez, whose exhibition, "Luxury, Interrupted," is on view at the CSRC through April 8, 2013.
March 5, 2013
CSRC director Chon A. Noriega will give a plenary address at the 41st Annual Art Libraries Society of North America (ARLIS/NA) conference, which will take
place at the Pasadena Convention Center in April.
March 4, 2013
The UCLA Newsroom reported on CSRC director Chon A. Noriega's Huffington Post essay in which he decried the omission of late actress Lupe Ontiveros from the 2013 Oscars' "In Memoriam" tribute.