“Paradise Blue” is jazzing up Westwood. The West Coast premiere of the noir-inspired drama will take place at the Geffen Playhouse from Tuesday to Dec. 12. Read more...
Photo: Wendell B. Franklin (left) and Shayna Small (right) play Blue and Pumpkin in “Paradise Blue,” premiering at Geffen Playhouse on Tuesday. (Courtesy of Jeff Lorch)
Three undergraduate students are taking one-act plays in entirely new directions. From Thursday to Saturday, the UCLA theater department will be presenting three student-directed and produced one-act plays at Macgowan Hall. Read more...
Photo: Undergraduate theater students (from left to right) Wanye’ Yoakum, Jake Goldfarb and Kristy Maanavi will be presenting their self-directed and produced acts in the theater department’s first show of the season, “Undergraduate One Acts.” (Ashley Kenney/Photo editor)
Ashli-Ann Ha is piercing the skin of the tattoo industry, dot by dot. The fourth-year geography and sociology student started out by inking Bruin Plate bananas in 2019, but Ha said she has since honed the vibrant designs she creates using the stick-and-poke technique, a nonelectric method of tattooing that is executed using only a needle and ink. Read more...
Photo: Fourth-year geography and sociology student Ashli-Ann Ha tattoos clients using the hand-poke method, which aids in creating their characteristic simple, whimsical style. (Photo by Kristin Pischel, Photo Illustration by Katie Frei)
No color is left unused in alumnus Lindsay August-Salazar’s latest paintings. Shown in the exhibit “There’s No Place Like No Place” at Lowell Ryan Projects in Mid-City, six large abstract paintings hang in the sunlight-drenched downstairs gallery. Read more...
Photo: Alumnus and artist Lindsay August-Salazar’s exhibit “There’s No Place Like No Place” opened at Lowell Ryan Projects on Saturday. (Lauren Man/Daily Bruin senior staff)
From selecting music and choreography to perfecting costumes and makeup, the ins and outs of putting on a dance performance are complex and detailed. Put on your dancing shoes and follow along as columnist Laura Carter takes a behind-the-scenes look at dance, disassembled. Read more...
Photo: (Christopher Kha/Daily Bruin)
Art and community wellness are merging together for downtown Los Angeles’ Día de los Muertos celebration. Marking the holiday observed from Nov. 1 to Nov. 2, Grand Park will host its ninth annual Downtown Día de los Muertos event. Read more...
Photo: The Los Angeles Family AIDS Network, a UCLA organization, created an altar with the Latino Outreach Understanding Division for Grand Park’s Downtown Día de los Muertos event. The altar is tiered, topped with a woman holding a bread basket. (Courtesy of Michelle Moro/Grand Park)
This post was updated Oct. 27 at 11:19 p.m. The whimsical oddities of Amelia Lockwood’s ceramics are now on display at ODD ARK•LA. The alumnus’s “Mondegreen Nursery” exhibit marks her first major project as a ceramist since her thesis show during the COVID-19 pandemic, which she said involved submerging surrealist sculptures into a pool in order to safely facilitate an engaging viewing experience. Read more...
Photo: Alumnus Amelia Lockwood’s art exhibit, “Mondegreen Nursery,” displays numerous ceramic sculptures in the shape of chickens and candelabras with themes of fire, board games and maps connecting the pieces. (Chelsea Rose Westman/Daily Bruin staff)
