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[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text]UCLA’s Centennial exhibition, The Map and the Territory: 100 Years of Collecting at UCLA, was meant to open at the Fowler on April 4. The museum has closed its galleries temporarily due to the COVID-19 epidemic, but—in this...
[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_video link="https://player.vimeo.com/video/238483358?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0"][vc_column_text]Visual art and dramatic performance, especially during moments of crisis, are widely understood to provide paths toward health and well-being. As we collectively – globally – face the COVID-19 pandemic, I am reminded of Brazilian artist Ayrson...
[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_video link="https://player.vimeo.com/video/410783194?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0"][vc_column_text]We are pleased to feature multimedia artist Jemima Wyman in the first of our Virtual Studio Visits. Many of the exceptional artists the Fowler’s Contemporary Council has visited are making short videos to give us a special...
[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text]While many Indigenous peoples live and work in small and isolated communities, the traditions that sustain them are vibrant and evolving. Over the past 50 years—a short span by Aboriginal reckoning—artists in some of these locations came to...
Wangari’s Trees of Peace: A True Story from Africa (2008) As a young girl growing up in Kenya, Wangari was surrounded by trees. Upon returning home years later, she is shocked to see whole forests being cut down, and she knows that soon all the trees...
