UCLA Collects! Bodies of Knowledge April 17, 2005 to August 21, 2005 "The exhibition that, instead of lecturing, keeps you awake and amused about thousands of ways that various cultures and eras intertwine." Edward Goldman, KCRW's Art Talk, May 17, 2005 UCLA is an important repository for an astounding range of objects, from African masks to acupuncture charts to Renaissance prints to contemporary photographs. UCLA Collects! Bodies of Knowledge explored the role of collections in UCLA’s pursuit of knowledge and juxtaposes for the first time significant and diverse objects from five important UCLA institutions: the Fowler Museum of Cultural History, the Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts at the Hammer Museum, Department of Special Collections in the Charles E. Young Research Library, History and Special Collections in the Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library, and the Rock Art Archive in the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology. The human body—so essential to our worldview—was the subject of the exhibition, which includes nearly two hundred objects from many disciplines, geographic regions, and eras. Medical and anatomical treatises; New Guinean and African sculptures; Mexican pâpier maché figures; works on paper by Matisse, Picasso and Rembrandt; photographs by Eadweard Muybridge, Imogen Cunningham, and Max Yavno; artists’ books; Native American and prehistoric rock art; and much more; were displayed together in a modern-day UCLA ‘cabinet of wonders.’ UCLA Collects! was organized by eleven curators and directors from the five aforementioned UCLA institutions. The curatorial team was led by Fowler Museum and host institution director Marla C. Berns, and included Cynthia Burlingham, director, and Carolyn Peter, assistant curator, Grunwald Center; Polly Roberts, deputy director and chief curator, Roy Hamilton, curator of Asian and Pacific collections, and Betsy Quick, director of education, Fowler Museum; Victoria Steele, head of the Department of Special Collections and Genie Guerard, head of the Manuscripts Division, Charles E. Young Research Library; Katharine E.S. Donahue, director of the Biomedical Library; Wendy Teeter, curator of archaeology, Fowler Museum; and JoAnne Van Tilburg, director of the Rock Art Archive, Cotsen Institute of Archaeology. Press Release