UCR Arts' 'Digital Capture' spans space race to AI
Over five years in the making, the “ Digital Capture: Southern California and the Pixel-Based Image World” exhibition at UCR Arts California Museum of Photography, or CMP, is part of the Getty Foundation’s massive art event, PST Art (previously known as Pacific Standard Time). PST is a five-month long event...
'Telling Them Apart': Two artists' dialogue in photos
This weekend at the California Museum of Photography, the namesake artists will hold a discussion and screening for their current exhibition, “Telling Them Apart: Eileen Cowin and Jonesy.” The 1 p.m. Saturday, April 27 event is moderated by art and design historian Andy Campbell and, in addition to Cowin and...
Book based on UCR Arts exhibition wins four awards
Christina Fernandez’s monograph “ Christina Fernandez: Multiple Exposures,” produced in conjunction with her 2022-2023 exhibition of the same name at UCR Arts California Museum of Photography, or CMP, has been awarded the Association for Latin American Art, or ALAA, ALAA-Thoma Foundation Exhibition Catalogue Award. The book, co-produced by UCR’s Joanna...
Exhibition explores line between real and fiction, in LA style
The first exhibition in the New Acquisitions Series is the artist Zoe Crosher’s seven photographs that make up "LA Like: “Transgressing the Pacific (2008–10).” Alyse Yeargan, collections manager for the UCR Arts’ California Museum of Photography, or CMP, says she chose Crosher’s photographs for several reasons. The works are “emotionally...
KD Ganaway exhibition coming to the California Museum of Photography
UCR’s California Museum of Photography will showcase the work of King Daniel (KD) Ganaway, one of the earliest Black photographers in the U.S. The exhibition runs Feb. 25 - Aug. 6.
UCR ARTS reopens May 13 — now with free admission
Explore six exhibitions at the California Museum of Photography and Culver Center of the Arts with new measures ensuring guest safety
‘Art in the Plague Year’ exhibition seeks art imagining a world beyond 2020
The open call marks the first time the California Museum of Photography has solicited art from the public at this scale
In the eye of the beholder
A new exhibition at the California Museum of Photography explores the iconic work of documentary photographer Bruce Davidson and the evolution of meaning in photographs
UCR ARTS goes virtual
Experience 360-degree exhibition tours, artist interviews, hands-on activities, and more from the comfort of home
Out of the ashes and into the fire
‘Facing Fire’ explores the beauty, threat, and devastation of California’s growing wildfires
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
Power play: Manipulation and absurdity in photography
California Museum of Photography exhibition explores how artist Robert Cumming exposed the truth and trickery of photography
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
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...
Arts patron and UCR supporter Henry Coil dies at 85
Henry W. Coil Jr., a Riverside native and community booster whose construction firm and personal giving preserved historic buildings, built multiple schools and strengthened programs for young people and the arts, died October 3, 2018 at the age of 85. “Henry is one of those rare individuals who not only...