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Q&A with Rocío Aranda-Alvarado and Deborah Cullen-Morales, editors of “A Handbook of Latinx Art”
Feb 12 2025
Rocío Aranda-Alvarado and Deborah Cullen-Morales discuss their book “A Handbook of Latinx Art," a curated selection of key texts and artists’ voices exploring US Latinx art and art history from the 1960s to the present.
Q&A with Ruth E. Iskin, author of "Mary Cassatt between Paris and New York"
Feb 08 2025
Author Ruth E. Iskin discusses her new book "Mary Cassatt between Paris and New York," how she became interested in the iconic artist, and what remains timely about Cassatt's work.
Q&A with Angela Miller and Nick Mauss, authors of Body Language
Nov 29 2023
Body Language: The Queer Staged Photographs of George Platt Lynes and PaJaMa is the first in-depth study of the extraordinary interplay between George Platt Lynes and PaJaMa (Paul Cadmus, Jared French, and Margaret Hoening French). Nick Mauss and Angela Miller offer timely readings of how their prac
Meet the Editors of Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture at #CAA2023
Feb 16 2023
If you are attending the College Art Association's annual conference in New York, we invite you to join us in the UC Press booth (#109) in the conference exhibit hall on Thursday, February 16 at 4:00pm to meet the editors of Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture, Charlene Villaseñor Black and Emi
Celebrating 50 Years of Latinx Art and Collaborative Artmaking with Self Help Graphics
Feb 15 2023
By Tatiana Reinoza, co-editor of Self Help Graphics at Fifty: A Cornerstone of Latinx Art and Collaborative ArtmakingThroughout the last five decades, Self Help Graphics & Art has created an artist-centered institution with an emphasis on empowerment, reciprocity, and exchange. Whether i
Q&A with Caroline Riley, author of MoMA Goes to Paris in 1938
Feb 13 2023
Three Centuries of American Art in 1938 was the Museum of Modern Art’s first international exhibition. With over 750 artworks on view in Paris ranging from seventeenth-century colonial portraits to Mickey Mouse and spanning architecture, film, folk art, painting, prints, and sculpture, it was the mo
Meet LeKeisha Hughes, our new Associate Editor of Art History and Music
Feb 09 2023
We’re pleased to announce that LeKeisha Hughes will be our new Associate Editor of Art History and Music! LeKeisha originally joined the UC Press team in 2021 as an editorial assistant. Prior to joining the press, LeKeisha worked as an instructor at UC San Diego and Occidental College, as well as ma
Announcing the New Transforming Cultural Heritage Series
May 19 2022
We’re thrilled to be publishing this timely new series that focuses on contemporary calls to decolonize and indigenize museums, tear down monuments, and repatriate ancestors. Read our Q&A below with the series editors to find out more about the Transforming Cultural Heritage series.Can you d
Q&A with Jordana Saggese, Editor of New Black Art, Theory, and Culture Series
Feb 17 2022
We're thrilled to announce our new Black Art, Theory, and Culture series, helmed by series editor Jordana Saggese!For the 2022 annual meeting of the California Art Association, we share a conversation between our Art History Editor Archna Patel and Jordana Saggese about how the goal of the serie
Celebrating Black Artists for Black History Month: Beverly McIver
Feb 12 2022
Black History Month is a powerful occasion to recognize, learn from, and reflect on Black stories, histories, and legacies in America. Join us in taking this time to celebrate and highlight Black artists and some of the books that we have had the privilege to publish on these artists.Beverly