NEWSEVENTS
Department/UCR News and Events
MAY
- 1st: Careers in Art History, or What can I do with a BA in Art History besides work at Starbucks?
Art History Association meeting. Explore the options available for art history majors, including graduate school.
Thursday, May 1, 2008 at 4pm in Commons 268
- 3rd: UCR/California Museum of Photography
24 Hours @ 24 FPS
Seeks 500 Photographers For Time-Lapse Film
- 6th: Film Screening
El castillo de la pureza (Dir. Arturo Ripstein 1972)
Exploring themes of claustrophobia and family, Arturo Ripstein tells the true story of a rat poison maker who holds his family under house arrest for nearly two decades to prevent them from being corrupted by the outside world. Not surprisingly, the situation becomes untenable as the children reach adolescence and balk at their isolation in this hauntingly surreal film. Screenings are free and take place every Tuesday at 6:10 pm - 9:00 pm in INTS 1125.
- 8th: UCR/California Museum of Photography
Balancing the Lenses Panel Discussion
UCR/CMP Oculorium
1:30 - 3:30 PM
- 13th: Film Screening
Lola. (Dir. Maria Novaro 1989, 93 min.)
In her first feature film Maria Novaro examines single motherhood in Mexico City. Screenings are free and take place every Tuesday at 6:10 pm - 9:00 pm in INTS 1125.
UC RIVERSIDE ART DEPARTMENT PRESENTS AN EXCLUSIVE SCREENING OF:
SILHOUETTE CITY
by MICHAEL WILSON
DATE: TUESDAY, MAY 13TH
TIME: 4PM
LOCATION: ARTS 335
(DIRECTOR WILL BE PRESENT FOR INTRODUCTION & Q&A)
- 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
- 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.
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.