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Edgar Miramontes has been named the new executive and artistic director of UCLA’s Center for the Art of Performance!

Miramontes comes to CAP UCLA from
REDCAT - Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater, where he has served as deputy executive director and curator since 2019, and associate director from 2013-2019.

UCLA makes a historic pick to lead its Center for the Art of Performance CAP UCLA names Edgar Miramontes executive and artistic director, making him the organization's first leader of color since its founding in 1936.

UCLA Department of Art professor and department chair Catherine Opie's exhibition "Binding Ties" at Heide Museum of Modern Art is her first survey in Australia, showcasing three decades of work with central themes of gender, sexuality, and q***r culture.

Catherine Opie's Eye for Identity at Heide Museum of Modern Art Catherine Opie's photographs investigate modern perspectives on gender, sexuality, and q***r cultures with reference to the artist's personal history.

Nuestro Stories highlighted the lifetime achievements of UCLA World Arts and Cultures/Dance emerita professor Judy Baca, infusing the stories of "marginalized and overlooked communities of Los Angeles" starting with her first mural.

The Life and Times of a Chicana Icon: Judy Baca Credit: Nuestro Stories The city of Los Angeles remains iconic and distinctly unique thanks to the multitude of colorful and meaningful murals scattered across this city's vast landscape. And, as Los Angelenos will attest, when it

UCLA Department of Art professor Anna Sew Hoy presents an exhibition at SFMOMA, highlighting her interest “in turning things inside out to explore the relationship between the exterior world and interior space and the inevitable porousness between them.”

New Work: Anna Sew Hoy Los Angeles–based sculptor Anna Sew Hoy’s Growing Ruins rise from the floor in a mesmerizing tangle of hand-built clay arches, found metal cages, and detritus ranging from charging cords to denim scraps.

UCLA Architecture and Urban Design students Sijie Ji, Wanying Li, and Clytie Hoi Ting Mak, have been selected as part of Metropolis magazine's Future 100 list of the top graduating architecture and interior design students in the U.S. and Canada.

UCLA Architecture and Urban Design: MArch students Sijie Ji, Wanying Li, and Clytie Hoi Ting Mak named to the 2023 Metropolis Future 100 UCLA Architecture and Urban Design is a champion of ideas and their articulate expression.

UCLA Art alumnus Eamon Ore-Giron is a featured artist in "Rising Sun: Artists in an Uncertain America" exhibition, inviting artist to respond to the question: “Is the sun rising or setting on the experiment of American democracy?”

Rising Sun: Artists in an Uncertain America Exhibition - EVENT The African American Museum in Philadelphia and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts present Rising Sun: Artists in an Uncertain America, an exhibition of new works by 20 artists invited to respond to the question: “Is the sun rising or setting on the experiment of American democracy?”

The Fowler Museum unveiled its new exhibition with Haitian artist Myrlande Constant Art on the drapo Vodou tradition, marking her as the first Haitian woman to have a solo show in a major U.S. Museum.

Myrlande Constant exhibition honors the labor of working-class artists A retrospective of textile artist Myrlande Constant has opened at UCLA's Fowler Museum. Curators say it's the first solo show of a Haitian woman at an American museum.

UCLA Department of Art assistant professor Candice Lin is a featured artist in the "signals...storms and patterns" exhibition, analyzing modes of kinetic art, communication, actions, and interventions to create a chain of reactions through May 28.

Exhibition | 'signals' at Para Site, Hong Kong View images of the exhibition and selected artworks. 'signals' at Para Site, Hong Kong on 18 Mar–28 May 2023.