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January 26, 11:13 pm

UCLA students join New York performers in ‘Lost in the Stars’

The curtain will open on a train filled with South Africans traveling to Johannesburg during apartheid. The instrumental music will go silent and the characters will begin to segregate on stage, singing, “White man go to Johannesburg, he come back, he come back / Black man go to Johannesburg, never come back, never come back.” New York-based theater group SITI Company will be performing Kurt Weill’s 1949 musical “Lost in the Stars” at Royce Hall on Saturday and Sunday, featuring a chorus including several UCLA students and alumni. Read more...

Photo: The musical “Lost in the Stars” by Kurt Weill, set in South Africa during apartheid, raises contemporary issues of race relations and inequality. (Sihui Song/Daily Bruin)

Arts, Theater & Fine Arts

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January 17, 12:00 am

Collecting Creatives: Student fuses ceramics, dance to unveil the complexities of identity

Timna Naim wears masks during dance performances not to hide but to celebrate self-identity. A fourth-year world arts and cultures/dancestudent, Naim has combined dance and ceramics as a vehicle for expressing their self-identity as an Israeli-American genderqueer gay male-bodied individual, they said. Read more...

Photo: Fourth-year world arts and cultures/dance student Timna Naim (pictured) added foam masks to their performance pieces, instead of clay, by collaborating with faculty member Kevin Myers. Naim used the masks to combine visual arts with bodily movement like contemporary dance and was inspired by Habonim Dror, a Jewish summer camp, which Naim attended from 2006 to 2012. (Justine Sto. Tomas/Video producer)

Arts, Music, Theater & Fine Arts

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January 12, 9:10 pm

Q&A: UCLA art history professor reappointed to White House committee

President Obama has renewed the appointment of a UCLA Chinese archaeology and art history professor to a White House committee. Professor Lothar von Falkenhausen was appointed Wednesday for another three years, after previously serving five years on the Cultural Property Advisory Committee. Read more...

Photo: Professor Lothar von Falkenhausen was appointed Wednesday to a White House advisory committee for another three years. (Courtesy of UCLA Department of Art History)

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January 12, 12:00 am

UCLA’s Fowler Museum displays 20th-century West African headdresses

Walking into the Fowler Museum’s latest installation is like stepping into a time machine to 20th-century Freetown, Sierra Leone. “Did you bring your passport with you?” said curator Gassia Armenian as she led me toward the exhibition, “Joli! Read more...

Photo: Curatorial and research associate Gassia Armenian organized “Joli! A Fancy Masquerade,” an exhibit at the Fowler Museum displaying 11 West African headdresses created during the 1970s. The headdresses – which feature patterned fabrics, colorful textiles and intricate ornaments – were created from leftover fabrics of gowns, dresses and curtains during the British colonization of the state of Sierra Leone. (Pinkie Su/Daily Bruin)

Arts, Theater & Fine Arts

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January 12, 12:00 am

Kerckhoff Art Gallery’s upcoming exhibit brings inkblot test into 3-D

Hypnotic shapes and neon outlines will move their way through a three-dimensional space against a stark white backdrop. The images are reminiscent of the inky splotches of a Rorschach test – a psychology assessment commonly known as the inkblot test – which evoke different images personal to the individual examining them. Read more...

Photo: Anna Mader and Ann Slote (left to right) helped organize an exhibit in the Kerckhoff Art Gallery that was inspired by a psychology assessment known as the inkblot test. The exhibition is meant to help viewers think about their self-identities. (Kristie Hoang/Daily Bruin)

Arts, Theater & Fine Arts

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January 8, 8:17 pm

Q&A: Benjamin Scheuer talks candid emotions of one-man musical ‘The Lion’

Two-year-old Benjamin Scheuer received a banjo that was constructed by his father using a cookie tin, rubber bands and a red necktie – his first exposure to music. Read more...

Photo: Benjamin Scheuer will perform his one-man autobiographical musical “The Lion” at Westwood’s Geffen Playhouse. The show documents his personal journeys using seven guitars that are tuned differently to create a variety of sounds and moods. (Courtesy of Shervin Lainez)

Arts, Theater & Fine Arts

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December 15, 2:24 pm

Theater review: ‘Waitress’

UCLA alumna Sara Bareilles serves up a sweet story about a waitress who finds joy in baking pies. Bareilles wrote the music and lyrics for the musical “Waitress,” based on the movie of the same name. Read more...

Photo: In alumna Sara Bareilles’ “Waitress,” expectant mother Jenna (pictured, as played by Jessie Mueller) works at a diner baking pies. (Courtesy of Joan Marcus)


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