In Rio de Janeiro’s vacant courtyards, four architecture graduate students see untapped potential. As they walk, the walls fade away, submerging them into the depths of the Atlantic Ocean, their faces inches away from a dolphin’s elongated rostrum. Read more...
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January 30, 11:14 pm
UCLA students finalists in Disney Imagineering competition
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January 28, 12:31 am
UCLA gallery exposes students to Plastic Jesus’ street art
A sign in Beverly Hills read“Stop making stupid people famous.” A makeshift grave marked victims of gun violence on Melrose Ave. A “Useless Plastic Box” was priced at $99.99 inside a Sherman Oaks Best Buy. Read more...
Photo: Plastic Jesus is a Los Angeles-based artist whose artwork is inspired by popular culture, politics and news. His work, which will be on display in Kerckhoff Art Gallery until Feb. 1, aims to draw viewers attention to problems the artist sees in society, such as homelessness.
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January 27, 12:00 am
Hammer exhibition explores Parisian female archetypes
A woman furrows her eyebrows and grits her teeth, bracing herself as she pulls up the hem of her skirt. She injects a syringe into her thigh, and on the table beside her sits the source of her pain and detrimental pleasure: morphine. Read more...
Photo: UCLA’s Hammer Museum’s newest exhibition, “Tea and Morphine: Women in Paris, 1880 to 1914,” comprises of about 100 works that explore Parisian female archetypes, including Eugene Grasset’s “La morphinomane (The Morphine Addict).”
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January 24, 12:26 am
Graduate student designers develop costumes based on painting
To costume designer and professor Deborah Landis, the story of a stage performance begins before the characters utter a single word. Landis, founding director of the David Copley Center for the Study of Costume Design, said costumes are integral in developing the characters’ story. Read more...
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January 23, 12:34 am
Q&A: Wayne McGregor talks choreography and FAR production
From teaching the young stars of “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire” how to dance to choreographing Radiohead’s “Lotus Flower” music video and working for the Royal Ballet in London, British choreographer and director Wayne McGregor has played a lot of different roles in the world of dance. Read more...
Photo: British choreographer Wayne McGregor brings his dance show to Royce Hall Friday and Saturday, inspired by cognitive research, the age of Enlightenment and the French philosopher Diderot.
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January 21, 1:28 pm
Theater Review: “Penny Plain”
Dim blue lighting barely filters through tiled paneling, illuminating ever so slightly the miniature faces of half-seen marionettes. A platform, reminiscent of a structurally sound tree house, fills center stage. Read more...
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January 21, 12:49 am
UCLA students interpret “Recess” in Broad Art Center exhibit
Upon entering New Wight Gallery, a transparent sheet filled with multitudes of identical doll heads wearing different colored hats stands out. However, under closer inspection, one realizes the hats are actually condoms. Read more...
Photo: Julia Wang “Plastic” On display at UCLA’s New Wight Gallery from Jan. 16 through Jan. 30, “Recess” ranges from inviting and playful works to provocative and interpretive ideas of the aging process. The exhibit’s pieces, such as Julia Wang’s “Plastic,” pictured here, contrast the innocence of childhood play with mature themes of adulthood.