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Homegrown Art Shines Through Then and Now at the Fisher

The Fisher Museum has maintained a fascination with local and emerging artists and you can’t get more local than your own backyard. In January of 1978, a gardener on campus mustered up the courage to take a small drawing of his composed using markers to an unsuspecting Professor Susan Larsen. Leopold Enriquez may have been…

Dr. Selma Holo Becomes Keynote Speaker at MUAC

Dr. Selma Holo, Director of the USC Fisher Museum of Art and International Museum Institute, was in Mexico City between October 19-21 to attend a series of conferences at the Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo (MUAC), Mexico’s leading contemporary art museum. Dr. Holo, who was the keynote speaker for the conference series, talked about “hyphenated museums” (museums dedicated to…

Sergio Hernández on view in Bogotá!

#flashbackfriday — Congratulations to artist Sergio Hernández for his wonderful new exhibition “De Sangre Y De Plomo” on view in Bogotá, Colombia! He was first exhibited in the United States as part of Fisher Museum’s “17 Contemporary Mexican Artists” show in 1989. The objective of “17 Contemporary Mexican Artists” was to highlight the diversity of Mexican visual expression, while presenting young artists living…

Where is Ana Mendieta?

For those who are asking  “Where is Ana Mendieta?” we have an answer: Aquí ! In response to what has been going on at the Tate Modern throughout the past few days, we wanted to remember our 1983 exhibition Aquí, which showcased the work of 27 Latin American artists living and working in the United States, including Ana Mendieta. This…

Rest in Peace, Dear Tunga

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,…

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….

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,…

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…