News
ARTFORUM covered the appointment of Pilar Tompkins Rivas as the new director of the Vincent Price Art Museum.
The Los Angeles Times covered the announcement of Pilar Tompkins Rivas as the new director of the Vincent Price Art Museum at East Los Angeles College.
CSRC faculty win awards for undergraduate teaching, CSRC researchers present at Latino Art Now!, thirty-fifth anniversary screening of Zoot Suit, IAC Spring Social, spring book sale, and more! (Image: Renee Hudson, center, doctoral candidate in English, introduces students to CSRC poster collections)
Álvaro Ochoa Serrano, professor of history at el Colegio de Michoacán and former CSRC visiting scholar, has published La música va a otra parte: Mariachi México-USA (El Colegio de Michoacán and El Colegio de Jalisco, 2015).
In Domestic Scenes: The Art of Ramiro Gomez (Abrams, 2016), a new monograph on the celebrated Los Angeles artist, author Lawrence Weschler discusses Gomez’s solo show at the CSRC Library in 2013 as the artist’s “breakthrough” exhibition.
The CSRC-organized exhibition Home—So Different, So Appealing is mentioned in an article about the most anticipated shows a part of the Getty funded initiative Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA. CSRC director Chon Noriega is quoted discussing the meaning behind Home’s theme.
CSUN Today featured a story on photographs by professor and artist Harry Gamboa Jr. that were recently acquired by the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery and the Autry Museum of the American West.
Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies, published by CSRC Press, was mentioned in a book review for A Promising Problem: The New Chicano/a History (University of Texas Press, 2016).
A tribute to Don Nakanishi, new implementation grants announced for PST: LA/LA exhibitions, high school students visit the CSRC, events, research grants, and more. (Image: Carlos M. Haro, center, and Andrea Vargas, right, with Boyle Heights College Track scholars.)