UCLA art faculty awarded the art department’s Undergraduate Art Scholarship award in spring to 28 student artists whose works range in medium from photography to ceramics to sculpture to film. Read more...
Photo: Nilo Goldfarb, Penelope Uribe-Abee, Oscar Peña and Gabe Pine (left to right) are four of twenty-eight undergraduate students that won an art scholarship in spring. The students’ work will be displayed in the Broad Art Center until December. (Frank To/Daily Bruin)
“Avatar” film fans can use 3-D glasses to immerse themselves in the fantasy realm of Pandora. But in Cirque du Soleil’s “Toruk – The First Flight,” viewers can plunge into Pandora and experience its inhabitants twist, teeter and tumble firsthand. Read more...
Photo: (Courtesy of Errisson Lawrence Costumes/Kym Barret/Cirque du Soleil)
Four actors cycled through imaginary and real hats inside a classroom in the Luskin School of Public Affairs building, changing their appearance and demeanor on a dime. Read more...
Photo: Four students, Ben Ellerbrock, Danielle Kay, Jeremy Elder and Matt Curtain, play 32 different characters in ACT III Theatre Ensemble’s upcoming performance of “The 39 Steps.” (Esmeralda Lopez/Daily Bruin)
Alan Leve counted the bumper stickers for presidential candidates Franklin Roosevelt and Alfred Landon while he was a child growing up in Boyle Heights in the 1930s. Read more...
Photo: Donor Alan D. Leve described his childhood in Boyle Heights prior to the opening of the exhibition “From Brooklyn Avenue to Cesar Chavez: Jewish Histories in Multiethnic Boyle Heights,” which is open through Wednesday in Royce Hall 306. (Esmeralda Lopez/Daily Bruin)
Taiwanese television stations in the 1990s broadcasted Falun Dafa persecutions in Tiananmen Square in China, where the meditation practice is shunned. First-grader Joyce Kuo, a practitioner of the meditation, was worried while watching the images on television in her home in Taiwan because she knew her family could receive negative attention. Read more...
Photo: Students in UCLA’s Falun Dafa club practice qigong meditation, which is banned in China. The club’s new exhibit, “The Art of Truthfulness,” plans to challenge negative stigmas surrounding the practice. (Burcu Turkay/Daily Bruin)
Acting students Lea Madda, Tara Turnbull and Maia Rychlik are used to taking on different identities. But for their latest acting roles, their own identities are key. Read more...
Photo: MFA students Maia Rychlik, Tara Turnbull and Lea Madda portray sisters Masha, Irina and Olga respectively in the UCLA Department of Theater’s production of “Three Sisters” by Anton Chekhov. (Alyssa Dorn/Daily Bruin)
Students around the world may be able to stream recordings of “Dracula,” “Pride and Prejudice” and Shakespearean plays. In October, the L.A. Theatre Works entered Audio Theatre 2.0 into the My LA2050 Grants Challenge, which will award up to $100,000 to community projects that receive the most online votes from the public. Read more...
Photo: L.A. Theatre Works’ project Audio Theatre 2.0 could allow access to a large collection of recorded shows for its audience, such as “Pride and Prejudice” and “Tooth and Claw.” The #MyLA2050 grant will announce the winners on Dec. 6. (Stella Huang/Daily Bruin)
