Review of Dorothea Lange: Politics of Seeing

A review of the exhibition Dorothea Lange: The Politics of Seeing, 22 June- 2 September 2018, held at the Barbican Art Gallery, London. The exhibition is the first survey of Lange’s work to be displayed in the UK, and includes works from The Dorothea Lange Collection, the Oakland Museum of California.

The Inside-Out Museum/The Inside-Out University

From their origins, the University of California, Berkeley and The Oakland Museum of California (OMCA) were established in different geographical, cultural, and political contexts. In a course sponsored by the Global Urban Humanities Initiative, artist, designer and Landscape Architecture Professor Walter Hood asks students to examine the museum and its neighborhoods in order to come up with proposals for change. He works on projects ranging from city-scale master plans to site plans to art installations and is known for his focus on the human element in design. UC Berkeley Associate Vice Chancellor for the Arts and Design, Shannon Jackson, recently spoke with Walter Hood at his Oakland studio about how the arts and humanities and design can work together to illuminate urban experience. This is the accounting of the conversation.

The Pacific in California

“Pacific” was the key term in the name of San Francisco's Panama Pacific International Exposition. The fair presented a vision of an increasingly unified Pacific region under the control of American economic and political power. Of course, California had been part of a coherent Pacific region for hundreds of years. Facing the Pacific was a key orientation for both the fair’s organizers and visitors. This article accompanies a portfolio of objects from the collections of the Oakland Museum of California

Above and Below at the Oakland Museum of California

With more than 100,000 square feet of gallery space on four city blocks, the Oakland Museum of California (OMCA) is one of the largest cultural institutions in the San Francisco Bay Area and the only museum devoted exclusively to the art, history, and natural environment of California. From August 31, 2013 through February 23, 2014, OMCA presented Above and Below: Stories From Our Changing Bay. This project served as a model for the institution for both the intensity of our partnerships with significant local institutions and stakeholders, and for how we might connect a broad audience to the human history of our shared natural environment.