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Kathryn Poindexter-Akers looks at the wall layout at the California Museum of Photography on March 7, 2023. (UCR/Sandra Baltazar Martínez)

California Museum of Photography turns 50

The California Museum of Photography has been documenting history, art, and community for 50 years. Its collection of cameras, photographs, and art will be on display at “ CMP at 50,” a five-month celebration that kicks off Saturday, March 18, 2023. The anniversary reception is set for April 15, 6...

By Sandra Baltazar Martínez | March 13, 2023 | Arts / Culture
Amir Zaki, UC Riverside professor with the Department of Art. (Photo courtesy of Amir Zaki)

Amir Zaki publishes 23 years of photography in new monograph, ‘Building+Becoming’ 

The book weaves stories that capture both nature and architecture. It goes on sale on April 26

By Sandra Baltazar Martínez | April 20, 2022 | Arts / Culture
UCR ARTS building exterior

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

By Jessica Weber | May 3, 2021 | Arts / Culture
Bruce Davidson, Birmingham, Alabama , 1963. from the series Time of Change , 1961 - 65 . © Bruce Davidson/Magnum Photos.

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

By Jessica Weber | October 19, 2020 | Arts / Culture
Virtual UCR ARTS logo

UCR ARTS goes virtual

Experience 360-degree exhibition tours, artist interviews, hands-on activities, and more from the comfort of home

By Jessica Weber | May 22, 2020 | Arts / Culture
Christian Houge, "Puma" from the series "Residence of Impermanence," 2019. (Courtesy of the artist)

Out of the ashes and into the fire

‘Facing Fire’ explores the beauty, threat, and devastation of California’s growing wildfires

By Jessica Weber | February 19, 2020 | Arts / Culture
Fisherman against skyline of Leningrad, USSR, now St. Petersburg, Russia

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

By Jessica Weber | December 4, 2019 | Arts / Culture
Reverse Refraction, 1974. Inkjet print.

Power play: Manipulation and absurdity in photography

California Museum of Photography exhibition explores how artist Robert Cumming exposed the truth and trickery of photography

By Jessica Weber | October 2, 2019 | Arts / Culture
Photo of albatrosses in a field and in flight on Midway Island

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

By Jessica Weber | June 17, 2019 | Arts / Culture
Arkansas Maytagers, Maytag Spring Party in Newton, Iowa, March 28-29, 1955. Courtesy of John Divola.

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

By Jessica Weber | May 17, 2019 | Arts / Culture
Doug McCulloh

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...

By Jessica Weber | March 15, 2019 | Arts / Culture

Rare camera collection goes to Calif. Museum of Photography

The California Museum of Photography has received a robust donation of American field view cameras, filling a significant gap in the museum’s collection. Donor Larry Pierce, a mineralogist and majority owner of Phoenix-based Fiberquant Analytical Services, gifted his collection of more than 500 cameras, as well as hundreds of related...

By Jessica Weber | September 25, 2018 | Arts / Culture
Belltower shot

UCR ARTS celebrates new name, purpose

The newly renamed arts institution will bring enhanced programming and scholarship to downtown Riverside

By Jessica Weber | August 8, 2018 | Arts / Culture
Belltower shot

Exhibition explores 20th Century through the lens of dust

A peculiar photograph leads to an examination of modernity, war, and ruin in “A Handful of Dust”

By Jessica Weber | June 11, 2018 | Arts / Culture

ARTSblock exhibition features public’s work alongside artist’s

The Culver Center will host an exhibition featuring photography submitted by the community in conjunction with installations by Xavier Cázares Cortéz

By Jessica Weber | June 11, 2018 | Arts / Culture
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