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- Sep 30, 2026
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The art of ‘genius’: UCLA’s Rodney McMillian wins a MacArthur Fellowship (opens the original)
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More than two decades ago, artist Rodney McMillian spotted a battered armchair by a trash heap, brought it to his art studio and began thinking about what happens when everyday objects are removed from one setting and placed in another. His resulting found-object sculpture, “Chair,” was an early example of the type of artistic inquiry that has defined his career, evoking questions about class, poverty and history, both broad and personal. Now McMillian, a professor in the UCLA Department of Art
In memoriam: Betye Saar, 99, alumna, trailblazing artist and storyteller through assemblage (opens the original)
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Betye Saar, a UCLA alumna and groundbreaking assemblage artist, died July 26, four days shy of her 100th birthday. For over seven decades, Saar redefined American art. She transformed racist memorabilia and advertising into powerful reflections on race and resistance. Activist Angela Davis cited Saar’s 1972 assemblage “The Liberation of Aunt Jemima” as the beginning of the Black Women’s Movement. The mixed-media piece, created for a show at The Rainbow Sign cultural center in 1972, transforms a
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