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ARCOmadrid Honors Los Angeles

The 29th edition of Spain’s leading contemporary art fair, ARCOmadrid, has opened its doors. For the first time, a city—Los Angeles—is the fair’s “honored guest,” rather than an entire country.

From this month’s issue of Art in America: “The switch, says the fair’s director, Lourdes Fernandez, reflects the fact that ‘contemporary meaning is not in countries but in cities.’ … It probably doesn’t hurt that L.A. is full of collectors and galleries, very few of which participate in ARCO, representing a potential future constituency.”

Be sure to check out this interesting story on the fair’s opening day at artdaily.org and this great article on the L.A. galleries participating at the Los Angeles Times.

Pictured: No Title (His transformation is), by Raymond Pettibon

Po the Panda is Here!

Williamson Gallery Director Stephen Nowlin gives us a behind-the-scenes peek at the installation of the upcoming exhibit DreamWorlds, opening March 4. A partnership between the College and DreamWorks Animation, the exhibit will highlight the artistry and craftsmanship behind today’s most successful animated features.

Become a fan of the Williamson Gallery on Facebook for exclusive updates as the exhibit takes shape. And speaking of Facebook, the official College Facebook page has officially launched—become a fan today!

Students Tackle Human Rights Issues

Images for Human Rights: Student Voices, a provocative exhibition exploring perspectives of Art Center students on the issues of freedom and human rights, is on display at the Skirball Cultural Center. The exhibition features more than a dozen large-scale, illustrated posters created by Art Center students as part of a Designmatters project.

The exhibition was designed in 2008 to mark the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted in Paris in 1948. The historic document arose out of the tragedies of World War II and is modeled after the United States Constitution.

Images for Human Rights: Student Voices displays fresh interpretations of the declaration’s many principles, encouraging viewers to reflect upon its continuing significance. Taking such declarations as “No one shall be held in slavery or servitude” (Article 4), “No one shall be subjected to torture” (Article 5), or “Everyone has the right to education” (Article 26), the artists were challenged to represent these assertions through visual images. Each poster is accompanied by the text of the article(s) that inspired it, as well as insightful commentary by the student.

The exhibit runs through March 7. Read more about the project at the Desigmatters website.

Images for Human Rights: Student Voices
The Skirball Cultural Center
2701 N. Sepulveda Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90049

(Pictured: Everybody by Christopher Kosek)

Site-Specific Installation by Grad Art Faculty Member Opens in Westwood

Later Layer, a site-specific installation designed by artist and Graduate Fine Art associate professor Walead Beshty and architects Johnston Marklee, opens today at the Italian Cultural Institute (IIC) in Los Angeles. The installation features Beshty’s photograms in the Depart Foundation collection and architectural models of Johnston Marklee’s work in Italy. Presented as two connected projects, the models and photograms are displayed in a field of modular nesting boxes designed collaboratively by the artist and the architects.

The IIC is located at 1023 Hilgard Avenue in Westwood. The exhibit runs through Feb. 28.

Kicking Off the New Year with Art

January brings a new year and new resolutions. Why not resolve to put more art into your year?

You’re in luck—January is full of arts events in Los Angeles. Los Angeles Art Month is an open invitation for Angelenos and guests to our city to discover our arts and cultural offerings. The endeavor is a collaboration between local arts organizations, arts and civic leaders, artists, philanthropists, and committed public and private partners.

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Alumni Featured in PDC Show

More Diana Thater news: She has curated a very cool show with several Art Center alumni at the Pacific Design Center in West Hollywood as part of their Design Loves Art program. The program features a series of rotating contemporary art exhibitions and talks with artists, galleries, curators and architects in ongoing project rooms as well as exhibitions, multimedia events and film/video screenings.

Comprised of three exhibits, Thater’s show opens this Friday, Nov. 6. Be sure to stop by!

Through the Eyes of an Alumnus

The Pasadena Museum of California Art (PMCA) presents Population: Portraits by Ray Turner, an exhibition of 150 portraits by the Art Center alumnus and former faculty member.

Turner ILLU ’58 fashions a uniquely seductive and engaging fusion of lyrical realism and abstraction in portraiture. A prescient interpreter, Population features intimate portraits of Pasadena residents.

The exhibit runs through Jan. 31. Read more about the exhibit at artdaily.org.

Opening Reception for TOOLS

The Art Center community is invited to attend tonight’s opening reception for TOOLS at the Williamson Gallery. The reception will take place tonight, Oct. 22, in the Williamson Gallery from 7 to 9 pm.

For millennia, tools have transcended biological limits, playing a role in human physical and cultural evolution. TOOLS explores this theme by mixing art with artifacts from natural history and science. TOOLS is a part of ORIGINS: Art & Ideas 2009, the fifth in a series of theme-based collaborations among Pasadena arts and sciences organizations.

(Pictured: Untitled Self Portrait, 2007 by Tom LaDuke)

New Exhibit Opens at Pacific Asia Museum

Today is the opening of The (Dis)Embodied Filipina: Fashioning Domesticity, Weaving Desire, a new exhibit at the Pacific Asia Museum. Guest curated by Pearlie Rose Baluyut and Agnes Bertiz, the exhibit runs through February 2010. The curators will be welcoming viewers today between 4 and 6 pm.

The (Dis)Embodied Filipina: Fashioning Domesticity, Weaving Desire explores the images of the early- to mid-20th century Filipina as civilized and wild. Through the juxtaposition of mannequins wearing the terno with ethnographic portraits appropriated from memoirs, travelogues, anthropological surveys and postcards, the exhibition addresses the material and spectral appearance and absence of women in the Philippines.