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)
From the natural to the supernatural, artists are blending personal experience with modern science in a new exhibit. Fine arts graduate students in the department of design media arts are presenting their work in the exhibit titled “Perspective Slip,” which premiered Oct. Read more...
Photo: Fine arts graduate student Berit Gilma’s piece “The planet Mars, 1 million years BC,” is on view at the New Wight Gallery with other fine arts graduate students in the exhibition “Perspective Slip.” (Ariana Fadel/Daily Bruin)
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: (Katie Frei/Daily Bruin)
Crisp, cloudless skies, coffee brewing and two new shows at the Hammer Museum – it’s autumn in Westwood. The two exhibits, “Witch Hunt” and “No Humans Involved,” were years in the making when the 2020 museum closure postponed them, said Hammer Chief Communications Officer Scott Tennet. Read more...
Photo: The Hammer Museum launched its two major fall exhibits “Witch Hunt” and “No Humans Involved” on Sunday, which were originally planned for before the COVID-19 pandemic. (Kanishka Mehra/Daily Bruin senior staff)
This post was updated Oct. 10 at 9:51 p.m. Eliana Bohn’s quarantine hobby sparked joy. Rather than picking up crocheting or bread making, the second-year molecular, cell, and developmental biology student said she turned to the art of fire performance. Read more...
Photo: Second-year molecular, cell, and developmental biology student Eliana Bohn is a member of The Firemingos, an all-female fire performance conclave in Los Angeles. (Lauren Man/Daily Bruin senior staff)
