Department/UCR News and Events

MAY

  • 20th: Film Screening
    Zoot Suit (Dir. Luis Valdez 1981, 104 min.)
    Based on a 1940s Los Angeles murder trial, Zoot Suit follows the various members of a Mexican-American gang, as they're tried and sentenced to San Quentin for a murder they may not have committed. Screenings are free and take place every Tuesday at 6:10 pm - 9:00 pm in INTS 1125.

  • 24th: Art History Association Event.
    Meet at UCR Lot 30 to carpool. Admission and parking are FREE and we will have a guided tour of the highlights of the collection. For more information about the Norton Simon Museum’s world class collection visit their website at http://www.nortonsimon.org/
    Saturday, May 24, 2008
    Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena

  • 24th: Join the Art History Association at UCR as we visit the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena for a multicultural art experience! The museum has important Asian and European collections including a large and rich collection of works from India, Japanese woodblock prints collected by Frank Lloyd Wright, religious paintings from Tibet and Nepal, and outstanding European works from Raphael to Rembrandt to Rauschenberg. Admission is FREE with Student ID.

    Date: Saturday, May 24
    To carpool, meet at Lot 30 bus shelter at 12 noon. Or meet inside the entrance to the museum at 1:30. Admission is FREE with Student ID!!
  • 27th: Film Screening
    Y tu mama tambien (Dir. Alfonso Cuaron 2002, 105 min.)
    Director Alfonso Cuaron's Oscar-nominated film was one of the most talked-about films of 2002. While the narrative follows the young protagonists on a road-trip of sexual self-discovery, they are blind to the social reality and struggles surrounding them. Screenings are free and take place every Tuesday at 6:10 pm - 9:00 pm in INTS 1125.

  • May 29th: Lecture
    Evil Paradise:Dubai and the Architecture of the Apocalypse
    Speaker: MIKE DAVIS
    Thursday, May 29, 3:00 PM, HMNSS 1500

JUNE

  • 3rd: Film Screening
    El Violin (Dir. Francisco Vargas 2005, 98 min.)
    Don Plautarco, his son Genaro and grandson Lucio earn a living as traveling musicians while also smuggling weapons to rebels fighting the country's oppressive regime. But when they return home to find their town occupied by the army and the residents forced into hiding, they make a bold play to recover the ammunition the troops have seized. Screenings are free and take place every Tuesday at 6:10 pm - 9:00 pm in INTS 1125.

 

WONG ENDOWMENT IN ASIAN ART

Completion on the new website for the Wong Endowment in Asian Art is available at http://vrc.ucr.edu/wongsite/index.html. This vehicle providing information about Asian art, culture and local history is made possible by the Voy & Faye Wong Asian Art Resource and stimulates interest and research in artistic topics of Asian culture. Resources include the availability of 5,000 high quality digital images of works from the permanent collection of the National Palace Museum in Taipei, Taiwan.

VRC STAFF NEWS

Jennifer Patton, a recent graduate of the History of Art MA program and Museum Scientist, was awarded a Visual Resource Association Travel Award and an Instructional Support for Undergraduate Education Grant from the UCR Office of Instructional Development to attend the VRA conference in Kansas City, Missouri. The conference will provide intensive workshops to enhance computerized digitization of images for classroom instruction.

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