Owen Clapp did not think he was good enough. A musician since the third grade, Clapp still said he worried during his second year of college that he was not cut out for the rigors of the music world. Read more...
Photo: Alumnus Owen Clapp recently released collaboration album “The Journey.”
American artist and furniture maker Richard Artschwager wanted to make something useless, so he created a sculpture. “He didn’t mean ‘useless’ as in having no meaning or significance, but rather as in not having a practical function,” said Anne Ellegood, senior curator at the UCLA Hammer Museum. Read more...
Photo: The work of Richard Artschwager spanned more than six decades and several styles, including the minimalism, pop and conceptual art movements. Artschwager’s work will be on display in the retrospective exhibition “Richard Artschwager!” at the UCLA Hammer Museum until Sept. 1.
When a group of graduate students are brought together for a social experiment, it’s not long before they realize their participation is not their only commonality. Read more...
Photo: Director Matt Russak and actor Joshua Koopman work on set in the production of “doubleblind,” the first pilot made by a graduate program.
My last day at the festival is also the only one where I saw just a single film: my most anticipated movie of the fest, Korean auteur Hong Sang-Soo's "Nobody's Daughter Haewon." Read more...
Against the backdrop of a national IRS scandal, NSA wiretapping charges and the general absurdity of politics, “Yes, Prime Minister” could not have come at a better time. Read more...
KCRW, a popular radio station, and the Hammer Museum are hosting a joint musical event called Music for Better Living, part of KCRW’s Summer Nights 2013 concert series. Read more...
Photo: AM & Shawn Lee is one of the bands playing at the Hammer this Thursday as a part of the series, “Music For Better Living.”
As an undergraduate student working in a video store, Andrew deWaard came across Steven Soderbergh’s 1998 crime caper “Out of Sight.” Read more...
Photo: Andrew deWaard, a doctoral candidate at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television, released his book on prolific filmmaker Steven Soderbergh’s body of work titled “The Cinema of Steven Soderbergh: Indie Sex, Corporate Lies, and Digital Videotape” this May.
