Wednesday, February 4

Course gives students opportunity to design, install mural of LA

A young man bows to a woman, his height complementing her graceful posture as her skirt swings to the beat of salsa. Another pair joins them, moving delicately up the ramp of a bus filled with monarch butterflies. Read more...

Photo: Students from the world arts and cultures/dance and and Chicana/o Studies course “Beyond Mexican Mural: Beginning Muralism and Community Laboratory” use a multimedia approach to depict important elements of Los Angeles history and culture near UCLA@SPARC’s lab in Venice, Ca. (Heidy Cadena/Daily Bruin)


Balloon & Panel: Anime, manga encompass diverse genres

Comic books are everywhere – Marvel and DC Comics are mining decades of story lines for a huge slate of movies and television shows. But comics are more than a source to be mined for superhero blockbusters. Read more...

Photo: In this week’s “Balloon & Panel,” columnist Josh Greenberg discusses Japanese anime and manga, such as Yusuke Murata’s “One-Punch Man.” (Courtesy of Yusuke Murata)


Author Judith Donath gives lecture on digital online portraits

Every action we make online is recorded. Whether it’s pictures on Facebook, purchase histories on Amazon or even the momentary flashes captured by Snapchat and Instagram, society is progressively spending more and more time inhabiting an ever-changing yet permanent digital landscape. Read more...

Photo: The UCLA Design | Media Arts department will present author Judith Donath Tuesday for its lecture series. Donath, whose book, “The Social Machine: Designs for Living Online,” develops interfaces, called data portraits (pictured) that map users’ social media interactions to produce a coherent visual of how people interact online. (Courtesy of Alex Dragulescu)


New magazine ‘The Paper Mixtape’ features LA art, culture and artists

While going through cycles and cycles of names for her new project, second-year art history student Morgan Cadigan played Iron and Wine’s “Our Endless Numbered Days” on a record player and felt a desire to get back to the roots of vinyl and analog. Read more...

Photo: Second-year art history student Morgan Cadigan (far left) founded the new UCLA arts and culture magazine, “The Paper Mixtape,” to explore the sights and sounds of Los Angeles and support local artists. (Manvel Kapukchyan/Daily Bruin)


LACMA College Night showcases samurai-themed exhibit, interactive art

Dramatic red lights illuminate the main exhibition room as students lift their chins to witness a squad of samurai charging into battle. “The Samurai: Japanese Armor from the Ann and Gabriel Barbier-Mueller Collection” showcased a wide spread of authentic 14th-to-19th century armor, and inspired the theme for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s (LACMA) sold-out annual College Night Thursday. Read more...

Photo: The dance group, Lighting Shadow, performed as part of LACMA’s annual college night. Without a stage, one man and one woman traversed the museum to the sound of a beating drum. (Maryrose Kulick/Daily Bruin)



arTistic Attention: TA Dahlia Schweitzer brings background of experience to classroom

It’s easy to become disenchanted by weekly discussions, typically made mandatory by participation grades. But here in A&E;, we want to help UCLA students realize that teaching assistants are not only students themselves. Read more...

Photo: Dahlia Schweitzer performed in her own one-woman art show in venues all over Europe, and was the lead vocalist, bassist and keyboardist of an all-girl punk band before returning to school to pursue a doctorate in cinema and media studies.(Daniel Alcazar/Daily Bruin)



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