Sunday, August 2

Art History Undergraduate Student Association blends learning, community-building

UCLA’s Art History Undergraduate Student Association is painting a colorful community for art history lovers. AHUSA is a student-led club dedicated to exploring art history through discussion, faculty speakers and gallery visits. Read more...

Photo: An Art History Undergraduate Student Association meeting featuring a presentation slide on “Still lifes” is pictured. AHUSA is a student-led organization focused on the exploration and discussion of art history through friendly seminars, said Nikki St. Charles, the club’s president. (Courtesy of Nikki St. Charles)


‘ICE Out: Arte en Resistencia’ exhibit demonstrates power of speech in art

Some exhibits aren’t made for looking at, but rather for looking back. On Tuesday, the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center Library transformed into a gallery. The Center for the Study of International Migration and the Chicano Studies Research Center Library filled the space with murals, paintings, photography, music and a community that showed up to heal. Read more...

Photo: Attendees of the “ICE OUT: Arte en Resistencia” exhibit listen to a discussion panel. On Tuesday, the Chicano Studies Research Library hosted the opening night for the art exhibit. (Pranav Akella/Daily Bruin)


LA Opera’s ‘Akhnaten’ slowly submerges viewers in sound, detailed visuals

As an audience member accurately put it, “Akhnaten” is quite a trip. Curtains rose on the LA Opera’s newest masterpiece at Dorothy Chandler Pavilion Feb. 28, where it will remain until its sweeping finale March 22. Read more...

Photo: Yuntong Han (center) as the High Priest of Amon sits glowing in a golden hue as the winged ensemble stands in two rows above him. The LA Opera’s newest show, “Akhnaten” will be performed at Dorothy Chandler Pavilion Feb. 28-March 22. (Courtesy of Cory Weaver/LA Opera)


‘Virtue and Vice’ art exhibit explores messages of morality through drawings

This post was updated March 5 at 8:43 p.m. Find “Virtue and Vice” at the Getty Center this spring. “Virtue and Vice: Allegory in European Drawing” is on display at the Getty from March 3 to June 7. Read more...

Photo: Jean-Honoré Fragonard’s “Oh! If Only He Were as Faithful to Me,” is a brush with brown wash and black chalk piece. The Getty’s new drawing exhibition, “Virtue and Vice: Allegory in European Drawing,” opened on March 3 and will run until June 7. (Courtesy of Getty Museum)


UCLA’s Rapid Fire improv troop serves up on-the-fly laughs to Westwood audiences

This post was updated March 1 at 8:08 p.m. The lights come up in a Westwood apartment, and 11 Bruins solemnly rise around the cornucopia, but there is no Katniss in sight – and no script. Read more...

Photo: Members of UCLA’s only exclusively long-form improv troupe, Rapid Fire, gather in a circle. The club consists of nearly a dozen improvisers who perform free 45-minute shows in Westwood apartments along with collaborative shows featuring other college comedy groups. (Aiden Martinez/Daily Bruin)


Unmaking ‘Made in L.A.:’ Will Rawls’ ‘Unmade’ highlights the systems behind LA

This post was updated March 1 at 8:21 p.m. Dancers drifted through the Hammer Museum, carrying cones, canvas and found objects in a choreography of construction. Read more...

Photo: Photo of an “Unmade” performance shows Maya Billig in the background and Gurmukhi Bevli in green, among other performers. UCLA faculty Will Rawls’s performance-based art show is part of the Hammer’s biennial show “Made in L.A.” (Courtesy of Sara Golonka)


Theater review: Flawed foundation, confused goals cause ‘Sylvia Sylvia Sylvia’ to fall short

This post was updated Feb. 26 at 8:28 p.m. “Sylvia Sylvia Sylvia” is a valentine, a dialectic and a seance, but it is not quite sure which one to believe in. Read more...

Photo: Marianna Gailus as Sylvia Plath (left) and Cillian O’Sullivan as Ted Hughes (right) pose intimately with their foreheads pressed together. Written by Beth Hyland, the award-winning production “Sylvia Sylvia Sylvia” debuted at the Geffen Playhouse Feb. 4. (Courtesy of Jeff Lorch)



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