1. UCLA Arts Board of Visitors members Werner Wolfen, left, and Roy H. Aaron with Barbara Drucker, chair of the Department of Art 2. Left to right, Bruno Racine, president, Centre Pompidou, UCLA Arts dean Christopher Waterman and UCLA Arts Board of Visitors member Eli Broad 3. Mayor’s press conference, left to right, AUD professor Thom Mayne, Philippe Larrieu, French Consul General and Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, photo by Gary Leonard 4. Los Angeles City Councilwoman Janice Hahn, left, and Betye Saar ’49 5. Left to right, Joan and Stuart Levin, Jane Weinstock and art professor James Welling 6. Michael McMillen ’73 7. Left to right, Madame Georges Pompidou; Frédéric Migayrou, chief curator, architecture and design, Centre Pompidou, and organizer of the Morphosis exhibition; and AUD professor Thom Mayne 8. Ed Moses ’58 9. Left to right, Craig Kauffman ’56, Roy Dowell and art professor Lari Pittman 10. Exhibitions entrance at the Centre Pompidou, photo by C. M. Campbell
Except where otherwise indicated, all photos on this page are by W. A. Dudley.







Two major exhibitions at the Centre Pompidou in Paris prominently feature UCLA Arts faculty and alumni: “Los Angeles 1955-1985: Birth of an Artistic Capital,” a retrospective illuminating the worldwide impact of Los Angeles artists of that period; and “Morphosis, Continuities of the Incomplete,” the work of UCLA professor Thom Mayne
—2005 Pritzker Architecture Prize Laureate—and his firm. Both shows run through July 17.

A delegation from Los Angeles, led by City Councilwoman Janice Hahn, attended the openings in March. The group, including leaders of Southern California arts schools and lenders to the exhibition, was hosted by United States Ambassador Craig Roberts Stapleton and by Philippe Étienne, director general for international cooperation and development at the French Foreign Ministry. Delegation events were coordinated by LA INC., The Convention and Visitors Bureau.

Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa held a press conference in late February at the Thom Mayne-designed Caltrans building in downtown Los Angeles
to announce the exhibitions and the delegation. Among the UCLA Arts contingent who, in addition to attending the opening, met with local arts educators and heads of cultural organizations, were dean Christopher Waterman; Board of Visitors members Roy H. Aaron, Eli Broad and Werner Wolfen; Department of Art professors Barbara Drucker (chair), Lari Pittman, Henry Hopkins (emeritus) and James Welling; and the Hammer Museum’s Russell Ferguson.

The art exhibition features current and emeritus Department of Art faculty John Baldessari, Chris Burden, Paul McCarthy, Lari Pittman, Nancy Rubins and James Welling; and UCLA Arts alumni Peter Alexander, Tony Berlant, Vija Celmins, Judy Chicago, John Divola, Robert Heinecken, Craig Kauffman, Michael McMillen, Ed Moses, Betye Saar and Peter Shelton.