This post was updated Nov. 28 at 7:37 p.m. Hanging cribs, smells of soap and bright neon paintings craft the New Wight Gallery’s newest exhibit. The art pieces are featured in the Undergraduate Scholarship Award Exhibition, which opens Thursday. Read more...

Photo: Angel King, a fourth-year art student, created an inverted bedroom for the Undergraduate Scholarship Award Exhibition. She said “Jellyhead,” the piece showing in the New Wight Gallery, reflects her experience growing up in the foster care system, and is meant to evoke tension and unease. Within her artwork, a photo album with pictures of her family sits atop a sideways dresser, and pins and needles add to the dangerous aspects of her work, she said. (Niveda Tennety/Daily Bruin)

Anti-immigrant sentiment and family displacement aren’t just descriptors of Japanese internment in World War II. For director Tim Dang, they’re an eerie parallel to the politics of today, he said. Read more...

Photo: L.A. Theatre Works put on a production of “Sisters Matsumoto,” a play following three Japanese-American immigrants returning home after leaving an internment camp in Arkansas. This version of the production was altered to best suit being recorded for radio, with focus on creating distinct voices for each character. (Courtesy of Jeanne Sakata)