DAILY 49ER California State University, Long Beach
Vol. LXVII, Issue 14
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Wednesday, September 16, 2015
A golden artiversary The University Art Museum has been working to conserve and restore sculptures on campus from an original art symposium. By Amy Patton
Print Managing Editor
In 1965, artists from around the world changed the landscape of California State University, Long Beach and the way Southern California perceived public art. This fall marks the anniversary of the international Art Symposium in the United States, resulting in the original nine monumental sculptures on campus. The University Art Museum is celebrating with a trilogy of homages, including “Far-Sited: California International Sculpture Symposium 1965/2015,” the museum’s latest exhibit. A historical relic to the campus and region, the symposium has been a special project for UAM Interim Art Director Brian Trimble for the past three years. To conserve this history and prepare for its golden anniversary, Trimble and UAM Permanent Collection Curator Maria Coltharp began a restorative initiative this past spring with the help of the Getty Conservation Institute and RLA Conservation of Art and Architecture. So far, two of the original nine sculptures have been thoroughly restored. On Tuesday, the UAM was awarded an Institute of Museum and Library Services federal grant to further the restoration project. The Far-Sited exhibit will be open to
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The current art exhibit at University Art Museum at California State University, Long Beach, “Far-Sited: California International Sculpture Symposium 1965/2015” is on display now through Dec. 13. The exhibit celebrates the 50th anniversary of CSULB’s international Art Symposium. the public until Dec. 13. As the third portion to the symposium celebration, the UAM and the Musuem of Latin American Art will be hosting Far-Sited: Creating and Conserving Art in Public
Places, a 3-day conference discussing new materials and technology for art as well as new trends and conservation of public art, according to a CSULB press release.
What sparked debate and controversy in the heat of budget cuts and machinist strikes left an artistic legacy in its wake. The original symposium prompted the addition of 17 more orig-
inal sculptures from famous artists around the campus over the past five decades. See SYMPOSIUM, page 5
The Don at SoCal Donald Trump spoke aboard the USS Iowa in San Pedro. By Collin James Senior Reporter
Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump drew crowds of supporters and protesters to a rally aboard the battleship USS Iowa in San Pedro on Tuesday. Trump’s “Make America’s Military Great Again,” speech on national defense and the state of veteran healthcare services received a standing ovation from a crowd of more than 200. “The veterans hospitals – they have problems, obviously, they are not properly run,” Trump said. “We are going to take apart the whole system… and [veterans] are going to get the greatest service of any veteran in any country.”
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Trump’s supporters at the San Pedro rally consisted of a large number of veterans. Trump also received support from Veterans for a Stronger America president and founder Joel Arends, who endorsed the candidate before his speech. The VSA both organized the gathering and sold tickets to the public to attend. “Normally this organization does not endorse in the primaries… [but] 2016 is too important to not take a stand,” Arends said. Local residents showed up in opposition to Trump’s presence in San Pedro, a historically diverse and working-class neighborhood of Los Angeles, taking issue with his remarks on immigration. “It’s not right what Trump is doing to us and the whole community,” San Pedro resident Mona Lisa Rodriguez said. “He’s discriminating [against] Latinos.”
Donald Trump shaking hands with supporters aboard the USS Iowa, above, and he addresses the crowd on national security and veterans services, right.
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