Regional News and Events

APRIL EVENTS

  • 2nd: Lecture
    "Les Enfants de Boucher" and Madame de Pompadour
    French Art at The Huntington Series
    Alistair Laing, curator of pictures and sculpture at the National Trust in London, will discuss The Huntington's unrivalled collection of tapestries by Francois Boucher, which includes 10 chair-backs of children and cupids originally made for Madame de Pompadour. Laing will explore the genesis of these images of children and the extent to which Madame de Pompadour was involved with their creation. This lecture is one of a series celebrating the publication of the new catalog, French Art of the 18th Century at The Huntington.  Admission to the lecture is free.
    Friends' Hall, Huntington;  6:30 p.m.

  • 2nd: Video Screening
    "California Video" presented by Bob Riley
    Bob Riley, independent curator and founder of the Department of Media Arts at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, investigates the legacy of performance art and its relationship to video in California. By adapting vaudeville and experimental postwar theater-including radical forms of public dissent that characterized the era-to the stage of the television image, artists set a precedent for subjectivity in art as the video environment and means of production expanded. The program features work by Karen Finley, Howard Fried, the Kipper Kids, Marlon Riggs, and others. Admission to this event is free, but reservations are required. Parking is $8.00 per car. More Info
    The Getty Center; 7:30 p.m.
    Harold M. Williams Auditorium
  • 3rd: Lecture
    "Memories Made Visible: From Knots to Pictures in Three Colonial Peruvian Manuscripts" presented by Thomas Cummins, Harvard University and the Getty Research Institute
    Thomas Cummins is Dumbarton Oaks Professor of Pre-Columbian and Colonial Art and department chair at Harvard University, Department of Art History. Dr. Cummins has written widely on the depiction of colonial-era Inca allegorical and portrait imagery, as well as visual culture of pre- and post-conquest keros (ritual drinking vessels). He is currently a scholar in residence at the Getty Research Institute where he is working on a study of three colonial Peruvian manuscripts, including that of Martin de Murua which is part of the Getty Museum manuscript collection. The talk he will deliver at UCSB on April 3rd will address the nature of visual representation in the earliest pictorial manuscripts produced in the Viceroyalty of Peru, which he suggests are concerned with the challenging task of making the memory of the past present.
    UCSB; 4 p.m.
    Alumni Hall, Mosher Alumni House
  • 3rd-4th: Conference
    EMSI Annual Conference, International Conference on Tolerance
    The USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute and the USC Shoah Foundation Institute are co-sponsoring an international conference, Religious Tolerance and Intolerance from the Inquisition to the Present, on April 3-4, 2008. The conference will bring together leading scholars from France, the United Kingdom, Brazil, and the United States; topics will range from the emergence of religious toleration in early modern Europe to European ideas about the treatment of indigenous peoples in the Americas. Professor Benjamin J. Kaplan of University College London and the University of Amsterdam, author of Divided by Faith: Religious Conflict and the Practice of Toleration in Early Modern Europe, will deliver the keynote address.
    The conference will be held at the Davidson Conference Center on the USC Campus and is open to the public. Admission is free but reservations are required. To reserve a space, please contact Melissa McNear at (213) 740-6724. More Info
  • 4th and 19th: Forum
    First Desert Cities Public Art Forum More Info
  • 5th: Seminar
    "A Roundtable on New Research in Early American Indian History" American Origins Seminar
    Presenters:
    Eric Hinderaker, University of Utah
    Joseph Hall, Bates College
    Matthew Dennis, University of Oregon
    Kirk Davis Swinehart, Wesleyan University
    USC; 10 a.m. until 12 p.m.
    Overseers Room, Huntington Library

  • 8th: Seminar
    UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Sawyer Seminar, "Luther and the Leipzig Disputation: Dissent Disseminated"
    With Professor Erika Rummel (Emmanuel College, University of Toronto). In 1519, Martin Luther, assisted by Andreas von Karlstadt, debated Johann Eck on free will, penance and the authority of the pope. In a speech inaugurating the debate, later published as The Method of Disputing, Petrus Mosellanus presented a humanist critique of scholastic disputation. We also know that procedural wrangles on the use of written aids disturbed the debates, but these altercations also shed light on scholastic disputational practice. The most important outcome of the Leipzig Disputation, however, was Luther's decision to use the new print media to broadcast his ideas, thus shifting authority away from university theologians, the traditional arbiters of doctrinal disputation, to a large and unruly reading public.
    UCLA; 3:30 p.m. until 6:30 p.m.

  • 10th: Forum
    Albums, the Collectible Collection More Info
    3 p.m.
    Getty Research Institute Lecture Hall, The Getty Center

  • 11th: Seminar
    "Homoerotisms in the Early Modern Spanish World" Early Modern Spanish World Seminar
    Presenters:
    Adrienne Martin, University of California, Davis
    Stephanie Kirk, Washington University, St. Louis
    Israel Burshatin, Haverford College
    Charlene Villasenor-Black, University of California, Los Angeles
    Zeb Tortorici, University of California, Los Angeles
    Mary Elizabeth Perry, Occidental College
    Jose Cartagena-Calderon, Pomona college
    USC; 9 a.m. until 5 p.m.
    Overseers Room, Huntington Library

  • 11th - 20th: Film Festival
    Riverside International Film Festival 2008
    Co-sponsored by the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, the Riverside International Film Festival will be held at Regal Cinemas in the Riverside Plaza. For more information please visit RIFF's website at riversidefilmfest.org.
    Phone: (951) 682-4456
    Email: info@riversidefilmfest.org
  • 12th: Seminar
    Renaissance Literature Seminar: Susanne Wofford, New York University
    USC; 10 a.m. until 12 p.m.
    Overseers Room, Huntington Library
  • 19th: Seminar
    Early Modern British History Seminar: Eric Carlson, Gustavus Adolphus College
    USC; 10 a.m. until 12 p.m.
    Overseers Room, Huntington Library
  • 22nd: Seminar
    UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Sawyer Seminar, "Raphael's Disputa: Adoration and Disputation"
    With Professors Marcia Hall (Temple University), Franco Mormando (Boston College), Joanna Woods-Marsden (UCLA) In 1509-10, Raphael painted the four walls of Pope Julius II's personal library (now the Stanza della Segnatura) in the Vatican with subjects reflecting the organization of medieval libraries into four faculties of Jurisprudence, Poetry, Philosophy (represented by the image now known as the School of Athens), and Theology (represented by the Disputa), the last two on opposing walls. Presided over by the Trinity, Saints, Prophets, and Fathers of the Church, the various figures of the Disputa discuss the central sacramental mystery of Christianity, the doctrine of the Eucharist, which had been contentious philosophically for three centuries. On the opposite wall, the School of Athens shows an ideal assembly of the great philosophers of pagan antiquity, led by an otherworldly Plato and an earthbound Aristotle. Christianity and pre-Christianity open complementary paths to truth, one by way of faith and revelation, the other by reason and observation - the choice between the two ways stimulating moral, theological and philosophical argument.
    UCLA; 3:30 p.m. until 6:30 p.m.

MAY EVENTS

  • 2nd: Seminar
    The Long 18th Cen Seminar: Marta Vicente, University of Kansas
    USC; 1 p.m. until 3 p.m.
    Overseers Room, Huntington Library
  • 10th: Seminar
    Early Modern British History Seminar: Polly Ha, Cambridge/USC
    USC; 10 a.m. until 12 p.m.
    Overseers Room, Huntington Library
  • 15th: Seminar
    Past Tense Seminar: Louis Warren, UC Davis
    USC; 7 p.m. until 8:30 p.m.
    Overseers Room, Huntington Library

 

 

CURRENT EXHIBITS

  • Daily through April 13th
    The Goat's Dance: Photographs by Graciela Iturbide
    West Pavilion, Terrace Level, Getty Center
    The work of Mexico City photographer Graciela Iturbide (b. 1942) is featured in a show of about 140 prints drawn from a combination of sources, including the Getty Museum's holdings, the collection of Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser, and the artist's own archives. Not strictly a retrospective of the photographer's career, this exhibition highlights Iturbide's work with surviving indigenous communities in southern Mexico (such as the Zapotec Indians of Juchitan and the Mixtec Indians of Huajuapan), outsider immigrant groups in East Los Angeles (like members of the White Fence and Maravilla gangs), and those struggling at La Frontera, the U.S./Mexico border. Concentrating on this international artist's North American pictures, it examines her more recent landscape studies from the American South as well as Mexico, and presents images from Iturbide's native city created almost 40 years ago.
  • February 12th - May 4th
    Consuming Passion: Fragonard's Allegories of Love More Info
    The Getty Center
  • January 26th - May 5th
    "CHICANO ART & SOUL": Three Exhibitions from the collection of Cheech Marin More Info
    The MUZEO
  • November 2007 - May 2008
    D+LIRIUM: by Walter Goldfarb
    Exhibition Gallery, Museum of Latin American Art; Long Beach, CA
    Walter Goldfarb: D + Lirium, on view in the Exhibition Gallery November 11, 2007-May 18, 2008, is an exhibition of paintings showcasing the art of a contemporary Brazilian artist who is emerging on the international art scene. The selection of 24 mixed-media paintings by Walter Goldfarb offers a tantalizing visual journey into Goldfarb's vibrant artwork created between 1995 and the present. The exhibition begins with his early works drawn from a series of works titled, Black and White Series and leads to his most recent works that are saturated with intense color and layered with textures. This series is titled Lysergic Garden and is the primary focus of the exhibition. With his electric palette and psychedelic undertones, the Lysergic Garden works are reminiscent of the 1960's hallucinogenic designs and emotions of ecstasy. Goldfarb uses color, floral motifs and plant forms to exude a sense of delirium and delight in his art. The exhibition is curated by Augustine Arteaga, Director of Museo de Arte de Ponce. A full color catalog accompanies the exhibition. Sample1 Sample2 Sample3
  • Permanent Exhibit
    A Bridge to the Americas: the molaa Permanent Collection
    Museum of Latin American Art; Long Beach, CA
    In June, the molaa Permanent Collection is presented as, "A Bridge to the Americas," offering over 80 works of art presented both geographically and thematically in two of the Permanent Collection Galleries.
    The first gallery highlights approximately 25 works of art, one to four from each of the 19 Spanish/Portuguese speaking countries in the regions of Mexico, Central and South America and the Caribbean, to profile the various countries and their leading art movements and artists represented in the molaa Collection.
    The second gallery will present approximately 60 works of art presented in 3 thematic movements-Cultural Landscapes, The Mestizaje of Identity and Spiritual and Religious Practices-offering an interpretation of the art related to the distinct and varied representation of ethnic identity, heritage and cultural practice specific to Latin America. Sample: Eduardo Kingman's Depressed Woman, 1964
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