As she walks through the Broad Art Center dressed in a menacing black vest studded with plastic spikes, Kristyn Solie looks like she has always felt. Read more...
Photo: Fourth-year Design | Media Arts student Kristyn Solie was chosen by Adobe as a student representative for its various computer programs.
Forrest Bess was an artist caught between two worlds, and this internal struggle can be viewed within his artwork shown at the Hammer Museum. For the first time in over 20 years, the abstract expressionist painter Forrest Bess’ work is being displayed, with a total of 50 pieces of his artwork from 1946 to 1970. Read more...
Photo: The Hammer Museum’s new exhibit, “Forrest Bess: Seeing Things Invisible,” explores the naturalistic works of the expressionist painter.
With a scenic design complete with modular interchangeable panels and an updated script, the stage adaptation of “Flowers for Algernon,” presented by Deaf West Theatre, speaks to more than one audience. Read more...
Photo: UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television alumna Sarah Lilly stars in a bilingual production of “Flowers of Algernon,” put together by Deaf West Theatre.
She made her debut in the spotlight as Queen Isabella in her elementary school’s Columbus Day pageant. Read more...
Photo: Jolie Oliver, executive assistant for UCLA football and an alumna of the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television, will be starring in a Pico Playhouse production of “The Old Settler.”
Judy Gold is a 6-foot-3-inch lesbian Jewish mother of two in New York’s Upper West Side and all she’s ever dreamed of is having her own sitcom. The premise is promising, but Gold's act is neither insightful nor funny. Read more...
Photo: Emmy Award winning actress and comedian, Judy Gold stars in the West Coast premiere production of her own memoir entitled “The Judy Show” directed by Amanda Charlton, now playing at the Geffen Playhouse.
As the day wears on, the gardens and lawns of UCLA's William Andrews Clark Memorial Library transform into an unorthodox yet intimate theater stage, where audiences picnic through a scandalous 19th-century birthday party set on the library's spacious grounds. Read more...
Photo: Amielynn Abellera and Brian Slaten play Lady Windermere and Lord Darlington respectively in UCLA’s William Andrews Clark Memorial Library’s modern retelling of Oscar Wilde’s “Lady Windermere’s Fan,” as part of the new outdoor theater series.
A wooden sculpture depicts a woman kneeling and holding a seat. She wears blue glass beads around her neck, and a contemplative gaze crosses her elegant features as she looks inward with downcast eyes. Read more...
Photo: UCLA professor Mary Roberts helped organize “Shaping Power,” a LACMA exhibition featuring art from the Luba Kingdom of Central Africa.
