UCLA Arts Newsletter

May 31, 2019

UCLA Arts Newsletter

On the occasion of UCLA’s Centennial, UCLA Arts is proud to launch 100 for 100—a collection of stories that celebrate the rich history of the arts at UCLA over the past century. Each monthly newsletter throughout the yearlong celebration will feature a new story that reflects on our past and imagines what’s possible for our future. We invite our community to explore these stories and contribute their own to the collection.

 

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We invite you to save the date for the Centennial Edition of 10 Questions.

Giving community members a unique opportunity to experience the conversations that drive innovation at the university, 10 Questions is a hybrid academic class and public event series that brings together leading minds from across the university to discuss essential topics of our time.

Every Tuesday evening from Oct. 1 through Dec. 3, we invite the public to join UCLA students in the classroom for an intimate panel discussion featuring UCLA faculty members and distinguished alumni as they come together to explore an essential question, such as: What is Knowledge? What is Justice? What is Creativity? What is Nature?

 

 
 

This month, Hammer Projects: Andrea Fraser opened at the Hammer Museum featuring Men on the Line: Men Committed to Feminism, KPFK, 1972 (2012), a video installation by Department of Art Professor and Chair Andrea Fraser. Since the 1980s, Fraser has achieved renown for performances and other works that interrogate social structures with humor and pathos, aligning herself with feminism and institutional critique.

Coinciding with the exhibition is the release of Andrea Fraser: Collected Interviews, 1990–2018, a publication coedited by the art historian Rhea Anastas and artists Alejandro Cesarco and Andrea Fraser, and published by A.R.T. Press and Koenig Books, London. The publication presents the artist’s voice in dialogue with interlocutors ranging from professional peers to journalists from the popular media and contextualizes Fraser’s practice in the artistic, institutional, and discursive fields in which she intervenes.

Read on for excerpts from this publication on topics ranging from the work featured in Hammer Projects, to her beginnings, to teaching, to the role of art, and more.


 

 
 

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