Quarantine Reads
Nineteen UCR authors offer their top picks for books to read while sheltering in place
How UCR’s Low-Residency MFA program uses remote teaching to its advantage
The program’s faculty members and students offer advice for transitioning to online classes due to coronavirus
Navigating UCR’s swift transition to remote learning
With directives to suspend in-person classes in response to COVID-19, UCR moves to campus wide online instruction
Out of the ashes and into the fire
‘Facing Fire’ explores the beauty, threat, and devastation of California’s growing wildfires
‘Empty Vessel’ offers a rare insider’s view of California skate parks
Photographer Amir Zaki highlights the unique architectural spaces and their place in California culture
Renowned mystery writer Walter Mosley to headline UC Riverside’s 43rd annual Writers Week
The 43rd annual Writers Week, California’s longest-running free literary event, is heading to UC Riverside, bringing a diverse array of emerging and established authors to the Inland Empire Feb. 10-14.
Comprehensive digital photography collection and $500k endowment donated to UCR ARTS
The gift from Jim and Georgia Steinhart marks the art center’s inaugural born-digital collection and first-ever endowment
Resurrecting Prometheus
Limited-edition snow globes commemorate the world’s oldest tree while supporting UCR ARTS
UC Riverside-led project offers new opportunities to commemorate veterans
Several resources, including a series of documentary vignettes, provides visitors numerous ways to enhance their own Veterans Day celebrations
Power play: Manipulation and absurdity in photography
California Museum of Photography exhibition explores how artist Robert Cumming exposed the truth and trickery of photography
Decoding race, monstrosity, and desire in ‘Candyman’
“Reflection Eternal,” on view at the Culver Center of the Arts Aug. 31-Jan. 19, unpacks the iconic horror film figure
‘In the Country of Women’ celebrates the ‘love of thousands’
Straight’s new memoir, published Aug. 6, extols the strength and resiliency of six generations of women
Finding grace through waste in ‘Intolerable Beauty’
The new exhibition from artist and environmental activist Chris Jordan runs July 6-Jan. 5 at the Culver Center of the Arts
Dual exhibitions from photographer John Divola examine social identity and the sublime
“STRATUM” and “Clive Wearing’s Dilemma” are on view at the California Museum of Photography May 11-Sept. 8
The enduring power of art as activism in “Emory Douglas: Bold Visual Language”
Although the Black Panther Party dissolved nearly 40 years ago, the movement’s legacy endures — largely through the iconic imagery created by former party member Emory Douglas. As the minister of culture for the Black Panther Party and graphic artist for the organization’s newspaper, Douglas was charged with establishing the...
New movie aims to foster change in a broken system
“I Am Somebody’s Child,” a film based on UCR alumna Regina Louise’s memoir about growing up in foster care, premieres April 20 on Lifetime
Join UCR faculty and alumni at the LA Times Festival of Books
Attend panel discussions and book signings featuring UCR writers at the USC campus April 13-14.
Being ‘Other’ in America
When Nora Guerraoui receives word her father has been killed in an apparent hit-and-run, she is forced to return to the small California desert town she left behind and contend with the many memories she’s tried to forget. So sets the stage of “ The Other Americans,” the latest novel...
Leaving it all to chance
Douglas McCulloh is not a man ruled by fate, but rather, chance. In fact, McCulloh, who joined UCR ARTS as the new senior curator for the California Museum of Photography, or CMP, in July has made chance his primary modus operandi. He traces his preoccupation with chance back to his...