Yesterday, the world lost yet another great soul. Rest in peace, dear Tunga. We are always proud to be the first institution on the West Coast to showcase Tunga’s work through our 1992 exhibition, “Body to earth: Three artists from Brazil, Cildo Meireles, Mario Cravo Neto, Tunga.” As Taylor Dafoe states in his Blouin Artinfo article,…
Year: 2016
Team Fisher Launches “Remix” in Washington, D.C.
A week ago today, members of Team Fisher were at the Art Museum of the Americas (AMA) in Washington, D.C. Previously attending American Alliance of Museums‘ annual meeting, they hosted the launch of Remix: Changing Conversations in Museums of the Americas, a book edited by Fisher Museum and International Museum Institute (IMI) Director Selma Holo and IMI’s Associate…
Mark Bradford Will Represent U.S. at Venice Biennale
It’s #FlashBackFriday, and we want to dedicate this one to Mark Bradford, whom we exhibited here at the Fisher Museum as part of our Mixed Feelings exhibition in 2002. Flash-forward today, we are thrilled to hear that Mark Bradford has been chosen as the United States’ representative to the 57th Venice Biennale, opening in May 2017….
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Gyre: The Plastic Ocean Closed Months Ago, but the Impact Continues
Last month, Skirball Cultural Center welcomed almost 300 high school students, along with their teachers and chaperones for a special screening of Plastic Paradise: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, as part of their “High School Film & Dialogue Series.” For this program, they partnered with the Los Angeles-based environmental nonprofit 5 Gyres, and the founders of the organization,…
2016 USC Roski Annual Student Exhibition
The Annual Student Exhibition showcases outstanding artwork made by USC students over the course of the 2015-2016 academic year. The faculty committee welcomes all USC students, regardless of their major, to submit work for the jury process. The exhibition will include work in painting, drawing, ceramics, sculpture, printmaking, photography, video and design. USC Roski has long-advocated an interdisciplinary…
Remembering Steven Sample with the Trojan Family Tapestry
Last week, we lost USC’s transformational and beloved tenth president Steven B. Sample. As current president C. L. Max Nikias mentions in his note to the USC community, Dr. Sample played a crucial role in the history of USC: “During his exceptionally productive tenure, which spanned nearly two decades, Dr. Sample led our university on…
Ending Women’s History Month with Mrs. Fisher
March is Women’s History Month, which gives us a great reason to talk about our founder, the visionary Elizabeth Holmes Fisher, her ideas, and legacy. When Mrs. Fisher began collecting art in 1928 at the age of 61, her taste ran to works by English and Dutch masters. Just over a decade later, in 1939,…
Elizabeth Garrett: Memorializing an Outstanding Woman on International Women’s Day
Today, as we honor all women around the world, we feel compelled to mentioning one in particular: the thirteenth president of Cornell University and former USC provost and senior vice president for academic affairs. Elizabeth “Beth” Garrett, who passed away on Sunday, March 6, following a courageous battle with colon cancer, was an outstanding woman. Beth was a dynamic, inspiring, and innovative leader,…