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museums

This rendering of the “Plein-Air en Plein Air” installation features an image of Granville Redmond’s painting “California Landscape with Flowers,” circa 1931, oil on canvas, 32 x 80 in., projected onto the Social Science Lab building. The artwork is a gift from The Irvine Museum to UC Irvine’s Jack and Shanaz Langson Institute and Museum of California Art.

Art as rarely experienced

‘Plein-Air en Plein Air’ installation to feature Langson IMCA paintings projected onto campus buildings

April 08, 2024
Bridget Cooks, professor of art history and African American studies photo: Steve Zylius/UC Irvine
UCI Podcast Indicator

UCI Podcast: Bridget R. Cooks takes us inside the Met

Why the timing is right for the ‘Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism’ exhibition

February 20, 2024
Wendy Van Wyck Good standing in front of paintings.

Reviving treasures by once-renowned siblings

Unusual backstory leads to new exhibition at UCI’s Langson IMCA

February 01, 2023
A rendering is a facsimile of what the gallery spaces may look like at the Jack and Shanaz Langson Institute and Museum of California Art.

Location chosen for Jack and Shanaz Langson Institute and Museum of California Art

UCI’s North Campus site provides outdoor vistas to complement indoor masterpieces

March 28, 2022
Matthias Lehmann, UCI professor of history and Teller Family Chair in Jewish History

UCI Judaic scholar discusses upcoming Holocaust exhibition

Installation provides ‘opportunity for learning, for reflection, for conversations, about the lethal danger of antisemitism,’ he says

January 27, 2022
Gordon Onslow Ford, Constellations and Grasses, 1957

Paintings that play with perception

New exhibition at UCI’s Institute and Museum of California Art pairs abstract and representational works

August 30, 2021
Kim Kanatani, director of UCI’s Institute and Museum of California Art, admires “Tree of Life,” by Carlos Almaraz, a pioneer in the Chicano art movement.

Keeping up appearances

Works at UCI’s Institute and Museum of California Art are restored in anticipation of reopening gallery

April 12, 2021
Kim Kanatani, inaugural museum director of the UCI Institute and Museum of California Art. Behind her is Richard Diebenkorn’s 1952 oil-on-canvas painting “Albuquerque #9"

What’s next: The future of museums

As cultural and educational nexuses, they must explore creative ways of engaging with diverse audiences

August 17, 2020

Much-anticipated museum begins previews of long-hidden paintings, sculptures

UCI unveils exhibits, events to introduce California art showcase

September 27, 2018
Assistant Museum Registrar Chanelle Mandell catalogs the Buck collection

State of the Art

Inside an unmarked Los Angeles warehouse, a woman wearing disposable purple gloves uses a $300 specialized flashlight to pore over every inch of a crayon portrait. Framed by towering racks of artwork, she’s inspecting and inventorying a long-hidden stash of 3,200 paintings and statues bequeathed toUCI by Orange County developer Gerald Buck. The collection, a […]

June 04, 2018