Thursday, February 5

Alumna’s architecture integrates aesthetics with practical design

Architect Alice Fung doesn’t just design buildings; she tries to make life better for others through her work. The UCLA alumna is a practicing architect at Fung+Blatt Architects, a firm she founded with her husband, Michael Blatt. Read more...

Photo: Alumna Alice Fung gave a lecture Monday on her experience as an architect. Her designs aim to facilitate functionality and easy living, as well as appeal to clients’ aesthetic preferences. (Courtesy of Alice Fung)


MOCA curates annual student art exhibit featuring diverse subjects and styles

Personal reflection and contemporary conversation inspired 19 art students to give a physical form to societal debates. Bennett Simpson, the senior curator at The Museum of Contemporary Art, chose works from a pool of nearly 100 applicants for the UCLA Department of Art’s annual undergraduate exhibition. Read more...

Photo: Jack Garell, a second-year art student, sat next to a photo of himself wrapped in a plastic poncho and sitting on a couch. His piece is part of a series entitled “Plastic People,” which he said comments on the everyday use of plastic. (Amy Dixon/Photo editor)


Drama of human connection, cultural divides to play out in theater production

A woman’s relationships with her mother and girlfriend show that those closest to you are not always the most understanding. The effects of war on personal relationships is the focus of “Unseen,” which runs from Thursday until March 2 in Macgowan Hall. Read more...

Photo: Fourth-year theater student Eliza Faloona (left) and second-year theater acting student Sophie Landeck (right) star in “Unseen,” a play following war photographer Mia after she wakes up unconscious following a massacre in Istanbul. Faloona said the production highlights the ways in which war impacts interpersonal relationships. (Kanishka Mehra/Daily Bruin)


Graduate student explores concept of framing and perception in art exhibition

Thinking outside the box, Dalena Tran will place her audience inside one, she said. Tran, a graduate student, said the idea of framing – or putting things into focus – is at the center of her solo art exhibition, titled “mornal : stasis – slowing down a mis-ordering of normal.” The exhibition will be open Tuesday and Wednesday at UCLA’s Broad Art Center. Read more...

Photo: Dalena Tran, a graduate student, will present her art exhibition, “mornal : stasis – slowing down a mis-ordering of normal,” at the Broad Art Center. It consists of projections of scenery on three different walls. (Kanishka Mehra/Daily Bruin)



‘Bodega Run’ reawakens experiences of underprivileged communities in Harlem

Bodegas are being replaced by metropolitan convenience stores. Concerned, Tschabalala Self said she decided to preserve the ethnic identity and heritage of about 12,000 bodegas local to New York in her recent exhibition. Read more...

Photo: Harlem-born artist Tschabalala Self represents her city’s sociopolitical themes in “Bodega Run,” an exhibition on display at UCLA’s Hammer Museum until April 28. She aims to portray the everyday life and culture of African-Americans in New York City. (Nidhi Upadhyay/Daily Bruin senior staff)


One year after Parkland shooting, production places gun reform back on stage

On Feb. 14, 2018, 17 students lost their unalienable right to life. In partnership with NewYorkRep, the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television will host a production of “Church & State” in Macgowan Hall on Thursday, the one-year anniversary of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. Read more...

Photo: UCLA students will perform in a production of “Church & State” at Macgowan Hall on Tuesday. The show deals with the aftermath of a fictitious school shooting and takes place one year after the Majory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting. (Anirudh Keni/Daily Bruin)



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