The card game “Objectif” is less about entertainment and more about creating a space to discuss racial biases, conceptions of beauty and objectification. Read more...
Photo: “Objectif” was created by third-year Design | Media Arts student Aliah Magdalena Darke to challenge preconceived notions of attractiveness.
Ugliness is beauty. It’s an elegant contradiction. Read more...
Photo: Margaux Moores-Tanvier, a second-year political science student, is a photo artist whose work will be featured in next week’s “I <3 My Body” week art exhibition. She said beauty is subjective, and being positive about one’s appearance is a choice.
For Eve Ensler, the Tony Award-winning writer of the provocative “The Vagina Monologues,” and many students at UCLA, Valentine’s Day is about a lot more than heart-shaped candies and oversized teddy bears. It’s about giving a voice to women across the world by offering them an opportunity to stand together and speak out against gender inequality. Read more...
On Sunday, L.A. Times food critic, Pulitzer Prize winner and UCLA music history alumnus Jonathan Gold will appear at the Hammer Museum to discuss the evolution of food culture in Los Angeles, mainly Asian cuisine in light of Chinese New Year. Read more...
Photo: L.A. Times food critic Jonathan Gold revealed his identity after years of choosing to remain anonymous in order to preserve the reputation and validity of his reviews.
David Shields’ crippling stutter pushed him to become a writer to cure his language troubles. It is literature that eventually developed his connection to the world. Read more...
Photo: In author David Shields’ new book “How Literature Saved My Life,” he debates the actual importance of literature.
On the distant, video-game planet of Poliphony, native creatures don’t communicate through spoken word or even body language, but rather through the sound of music. Read more...
Photo: Third-year Design | Media Arts student Trevor Wilson is the co-creator and sound designer for his video game “Poliphony.”
And although Lee said he enjoys the sport of basketball, his true passion does not lie in shooting hoops, but in making video games. Read more...
Photo: UCLA alumni Scott Lee and Jefferson Liou founded video game development company Smilu Inc. back in 2011.
