Maurice Berger featured in New York Times

On May 2, 2008, the New York Times reviewed The Jewish Museum’s Action/Abstraction: Pollock, de Kooning, and American Art, 1940-1976.
The exhibition was co-curated by Maurice Berger, Senior Research Scholar for the Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture. Times art critic Roberta Smith described Berger’s contributions to the exhibition and catalog as “pithy,” “extensive,” and “outstanding,” and noted his affiliation with CADVC and UMBC.

In his 16th year with CADVC, Dr. Berger is currently organizing For All the World to See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights, which CADVC opens at the International Center of Photography in New York in May 2010.

New York Times Article

CADVC Publications Selected by AIGA for Fifty Books/Fifty Covers

Andrea Robbins and Max Becher: Portraits and The 1980s: A Virtual Discussion have been selected by the American Institute of Graphic Design for their annual Fifty Books/Fifty Covers award.

This is the competition's 85th year and is the highest honor the AIGA bestows re: book design and production. 

Fifty Books/Fifty Covers is scheduled to travel nationally, beginning at the American Institute of Graphic Design in New York in September.

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CADVC publications
Andrea Robbins and Max Becher: Portraits

Two CADVC Publications Win Design Awards

Two CADVC publications received awards in the 2008 American Association of Museums Publications Design Competition.

The 1980s: A Virtual Discussion won Second Prize in the category of Scholarly Journals Andrea Robbins and Max Becher: Portraits won Honorable Mention in the category of Exhibition catalogues. Both books were submitted in the category of institutions with budgets less than $750,000. Professor Franc Nunoo Quarcoo is the credited designer for both publications.

AAM award winners were presented at the 2008 AAM Annual Meeting and Museum Expo in Denver, April 27 - May 1, 2008.

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CADVC publications
Andrea Robbins and Max Becher: Portraits

Major Renovation of CADVC Gallery Space

The Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture celebrates the completion of major renovations to its gallery space. The culmination of two years of work, visitors will now experience an upgraded lobby area, enlarged and adaptive exhibit space, state-of-the-art lighting, and new hard wood flooring.

Andrea Robbins and Max Becher: Portraits, which opened on Thursday, January 31, 2008 is the first exhibition to be presented in the CADVC’s new space.

New Publication Partnership with the National Academy of Sciences

The Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture is currently partnering with the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, DC in publishing the proceedings of A Virtual Symposium: Visual Culture and Bioscience.

With technical support provided by CADVC staff and the Office of Instructional Technology at UMBC, the National Academy of Sciences hosted the online conference during the first two weeks of March, 2007. Over 25 internationally recognized scientists and visual artists explored three topics during the course of their discussion: imaging in art and science, artists in the lab, and social and cultural implications of visualizing the biosciences. The publication will be distributed internationally through Distributed Art Publishers (D.A.P.) in New York.

CADVC Exhibition to Open at the International Center of Photography

The exhibit, For All The World To See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights, is scheduled to open at the International Center of Photography in New York City on May 12, 2010. The show will remain on view until September 5, 2010. Additionally the New York Public Library will host the exhibition's associated film festival and educational programs at two of its Manhattan venues—the Bruno Walter Auditorium at Lincoln Center and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem—as well as in its branch libraries across the five boroughs.  

The exhibition will travel to the National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution and other venues before concluding its national tour at CADVC.

Curated by CADVC Senior Research Scholar Maurice Berger and co-organized with the National Museum of African American History and Culture, Smithsonian Institution, For All The World To See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights represents the first comprehensive exhibition and publication to look at the role played by visual images in shaping, influencing, and transforming the fight for civil rights in the United States.

For All The World To See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights is comprised of over 250 objects, including posters, photographs, graphic art, magazines, newspapers, books, pamphlets, political buttons, comic books, toys, postcards, and clips from film, newsreels, and television.

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