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April 1, 11:50 pm

Former medical student brings behind-the-scene life of doctors to short film

Myra Aquino left a career in medicine to pursue filmmaking. But she used her experience as a medical student to direct a short film about a group of interns in a busy county hospital. Read more...

Photo: Actors Andre Jackson and Camille Harman play doctors in “Take Care,” an upcoming short film directed by graduate film student, Myra Aquino. Aquino used her experience as a former medical student as inspiration for the film, aiming to display on screen the pressures faced by doctors. (Courtesy of Camille Harman)

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April 1, 10:05 pm

Quarterly exhibit to showcase students’ urban architectural design

The traditional whitewashed villas and vernacular architecture that graduate architecture students saw on a trip to the Greek island of Mykonos inspired their own design for a luxury resort. Read more...

Photo: The Architecture and Urban Design Department will open its quarterly exhibit “Currents” on Friday at Perloff Hall. The building models to be showcased include a design of a sports club and a renovation of a Los Angeles storefront. (Courtesy of Siqi Zhang)

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March 14, 11:49 pm

MoMa to display UCLA alum’s work exploring identity, portraiture

Paul Mpagi Sepuya’s photos of cameras, mirrors and fragmented bodies will take over the walls of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. The six photos are a part of MoMa’s “Being: New Photography 2018” exhibition, which opens Sunday and runs until Aug. Read more...

Photo: UCLA alumnus Paul Mpagi Sepuya took photographs that will be displayed at the New York Museum of Modern Art on Sunday. His six photos are a part of MoMa’s “Being: New Photography 2018” exhibition, which features the work of 17 photographers and runs until Aug. 19. (Courtesy of Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Yancey Richardson Gallery/Team Gallery and Document)

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March 14, 11:27 pm

Romantic play explores class and gender roles, Latin American culture

A single onstage bed becomes the center of multiple different settings through the use of lighting effects in UCLA’s rendition of “Mala Hierba.” The play, which features an all-Latinx cast and focuses on Latin American culture, opens Thursday at Macgowan Hall. Read more...

Photo: First-year theater students Isabella Urdiales Guzman and Lillie Muir, and second-year theater student Camila Rozo (left to right) star in UCLA’s upcoming production of “Mala Hierba,” which features an all-Latinx cast. The play uses visual and auditory design elements, including props and lighting, to further explore the story’s characters and its focus on Latin American culture. (Niveda Tennety/Daily Bruin)

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March 11, 8:15 pm

Student duo’s company sells doodle-inspired posters, T-shirt designs

Runny noses may not be the typical inspiration for a company name, but Colin Tandy felt otherwise. “I grew up in San Diego, I was by the beach, and picking my nose and playing in the sand was like my childhood,” he said. Read more...

Photo: Chris “Chuff” Kim and Colin Tandy (left to right) design their own posters, featuring an eclectic array of doodled characters and eccentric phrases, like an anthropomorphic slice of bread and the phrase “Oh shit, that’s art?” (Bilal Ismail Ahmed/Daily Bruin senior staff)

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March 8, 5:43 pm

Theater review: ‘Sell/Buy/Date’

“Sell/Buy/Date” features an elderly woman, a Jamaican sex worker and a former pimp, all played by the same person. Running March 7 through April 15 at the Geffen Playhouse, “Sell/Buy/Date” is set in a futuristic society in which a British university professor named Serene Campbell teaches a class about people’s experiences as sex workers from the early 1990s to the 21st century. Read more...

Photo: (Courtesy of Chris Whitaker)


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