Charles E. Young Research Library
Department of Special Collections

Current Exhibit

Exhibit Archive

2008

• Portrait of a Jewish Artist: R.B. Kitaj in Text and Image, January - April 2008. Held in conjunction with the Skirball Cultural Center's R.B. Kitaj: Passion and Memory.
• From Aldus to Aldous: Highlights from the Department of Special Collections, April - September 2008

2007

• The Orsini: A Roman Baronial Family in Context, January - March 2007
• Queen of the Great Good Place: Gertrude Stein and her Parisian Circle, April- June 2007
• From 12/7 to 9/11: Lessons from the Japanese American Internment, July - September 2007
• Medieval Manuscripts from the Collection of Richard and Mary Rouse, October 1-7 2007
• Transformations: The Persistence of Aldus Manutius, October - December 2007

2006

• Ramona Memories: Tourism and the Shaping of Southern California, December 2005 - April 2006
• Six Hundred Years of Near Eastern Manuscripts, April - May 2006
• Carey McWilliams: California's Advocate of Creative Dissent, June - September 2006
• Isadora: From California to the World, October - December 2006

2005

• Wilder Shores: Lady Travelers of the 18th and 19th Centuries, January-May 2005
• The Sleepy Lagoon Case: Constitutional Rights and the Struggle for Democracy, May-September 2005
• One Person's Truth: The Life and Work of Paul Monette (1945-1995), October-November 2005

2004

• Chic is where you find it: Selections from the Bonnie Cashin Collection of Theater, Film, and Fashion Design, January-May 2004
• A Centenary Celebration of Ralph J. Bunche, June-September 2004
• Make Beauty: Costumes by Dorothy Jeakins, September-December 2004

2003

• Dark and Light: Arthur Wesley Dow and His Influence, January-March 2003
• How Shall a Generation Know its Story: The Edgar Bowers Conference and Exhibition, April-June 2003
• Medieval Manuscripts from the Collection of Richard and Mary Rouse, September - December 2003

2002

• John D. Weaver: Celebrating 90 Years, February - March 2002
• The Southern High Latitudes in Southern California: Antarctica at UCLA.
  An exhibition to celebrate the publication of Antarctica, 1772-1922: Freestanding Publications Through 1999 by Michael H. Rosove, M.D., April 2002
• The Susan Sontag Archive at the UCLA Library, May 2002
• In the Powell Library Rotunda: A Tribute to Lawrence Clark Powell, June 2002
• SOCALled Books: Diversity in Artists' Books from Southern California, July - September 2002
• Borges : The Time Machine, October - November 2002
• Season's Greetings: A selection of holiday items from the Charles E. Young Library Department of Special Collections, December 2002

2001

• Recent Acquisitions in the Department of Special Collections: Modern Fine Printing and Graphic Arts: Artists’ Books by Julie Chen and Mary Heebner, September 2001
• Aldus Manutius at UCLA : An Exhibition in Honor of the Publication of The Aldine Press: Catalogue of the Ahmanson-Murphy Collection, October 2001
• Recent Acquisitions in the Department of Special Collections: Popular Literature and Printed Materials: Illustrated books by Barbara Hodgson, November 2001
• Ricky Jay and the Magic of Books , December 2001 - January 2002

2000

• "A Curious Variety of Mazes and Meanders": The Voyages of Captain James Cook in the Global Eighteenth Century, November 1999 - March 2000
• Not Tantamount to Rarity: Fifty Years of Collecting, An exhibit celebrating a half century of Special Collections at the UCLA Library, April - June 2000

1999

• "Snarks, Jabberwocks, Crocodiles, and Mice Tails: Lewis Carroll, the Poet and the Parodist, Illuminated," November 1998 - January 1999

1998

• Here to Go: William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg in The Kurtzman Collection in the UCLA Department of Special Collections, February 1998. Visit the online version of William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg: a select bibliography of works in the UCLA University Library, published by the UCLA University Library in 1998 as an outgrowth of the "Here to Go" exhibition.
• They Tell Us More Than The Weather: Eighteenth Century American Almanacs, July - October 1998

1997

• Picturing Childhood : Illustrated children's books from University of California collections, 1550-1990, April - June 1997
• Some Favorite Things: The Rare Books Librarian surveys additions to Special Collections, 1983-1997, December 1997 - January 1998