Museum Report

Introduction

The Fowler Museum at UCLA or more routinely, The Fowler is a repository on the campus of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) which discovers art and material culture primarily from Africa, Asia and the Pacific, and the Americas, past and present. The Fowler hunts for to enhance comprehending and admiration of the diverse peoples, heritage, and beliefs of the world through highly contextualized interpretive exhibitions, publications, and public programming, informed by interdisciplinary advances and the perspectives of the cultures represented. The Fowler provides exhibitions and events for the UCLA community and the persons of larger Los Angeles and beyond.

The Fowler is usually dwelling to three to six art exhibitions and furthermore actions as a venue for addresses on heritage topics, musical performances, art workshops, family programs, festivals and more. The repository was established in 1963, and moved into a new facility on September 30, 1992. The Fowler is established in the to the north part of UCLA's Westwood Campus, adjacent to Royce Hall and Glorya Kaufman Hall. Admission to the repository is free.

Discussion

Previously, seventy-seven contemporary artists from twenty-five countries have contributed artworks for an exhibition iby the messages, vision, and values of the Dalai Lama. ThMissing Peace: Artists Consider the Dalai Lama—on vthe UCLA Fowler Museum from June 11-September 10, 2006— explores themes of peace, compassion, pattolerance. Participating artists have considered the Dalai Lama in a broad array of new and existing works made in a variety of media expressing their personal interpretations ofand reflections on his philosophies and ideals.

A photograph (left) of the Dalai Lama taken in India in 1998 by the late Richard Avedon was among the first works contributed to The Missing Peace. Manartists, including Bill Viola, Mike and Doug Starn, Sylvie Fleury, El Anatsui, Jaune Quick-toSee Smith, Michal Rovner and Chuck Close, have created new works for the exhibition. For example, Viola lately traveled to India to rendezvous with the Dalai Lama to conceive a new work that will debut at the Fowler.

The entire roster of international artists is: Marina Abramovic, Seyed Alavi, Jane Alexander, El Anatsui, Laurie Anderson, Ken Aptekar, Richard Avedon, Kirsten Bahrs Janssen, follow Bailey, Tayseer Baraket, Sanford Biggers, Phil Borges, Dove Bradshaw, friend Buffet, Dario Campanile, Andy Cao, Squeak Carnwath, Enrique Martinez Celaya, Chuck Close, Constantino Ciervo, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Long-Bin Chen, Bernard Cosey, Santiago Cucullu, Bihn Danh, Lewis de Soto, Filippo di Sambuy, Era and Don Farnsworth, Peig Fairbrook and Adele Fox, Spencer Finch, Sylvie Fleury, Louis Fox, Adam Fuss, Juan Galdeano, Rupert Garcia, Robin Garthwait and Dan Griffin, Richard Gere, Losang Gyatso,H. M. Harrison & Newton Harrison, Jim Hodges, David and Hi-Jin Hodge, Jenny Holzer, Tri Huu Luu, Ichi Ikeda, Yoko Inoue, Ilya and Emilia Kabakov, Jesal Kapadia, Anish Kapoor, Kimsooja, Nefeli Massia, Yumyo Miyasaka, Gabriela Morawetz, Kisho Mukaiyama, Tom Nakashima, Dang Ngo, Michele Oka Doner, Robert and Shana ParkeHarrison, Susan Plum, Rosemary Rawcliffe, Michal Rovner, Tenzin Rigdol, Salustiano, Sebastiao Salgado, Andra Samelson, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Arlene Shechet, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Mike and Doug Starn, Pat ...