Alternative Art Histories is a two-day symposium focused on U.S. Latinx art and art history. The symposium will bring together leading museum curators, museum directors, and art historians to discuss the aesthetic contribution of U.S. Latinx arts and how we might (re)imagine art history as a more aesthetically expansive, culturally… Continue reading »
Elena Shtromberg is Associate Professor in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Utah. Drawn from her book, Art Systems: Brazil and the 1970s (University of Texas, 2016), this presentation will focus on a series of works with banknotes by the Brazilian artist Cildo Meireles. Continue reading »
In her 2011 film, Natalia Almada creates a striking and moving portrayal of the violence of drug trafficking and its effects on Mexican society. September 24th, 7pm, Paresky Center, Auditorium… Continue reading »
Thursday, April 30 at 6:30pm to 7:40pm Griffin Hall, Room 5 Prof. David A. Sánchez of Loyola Marymount University will discuss practices of resistance in visual imaginaries in both the biblical Book of Revelation and Guadalupan murals in East Los Angeles. He is the author of the book From Patmos… Continue reading »
