Thursday, February 5

Show to promote sexuality, educate students through skits, songs

UCLA Sex Squad members will dance, sing and roll condoms on foam fingers in their upcoming show “ForePLAY.” The undergraduate sexual health performance group will debut a set of educational skits in its show “ForePLAY” in Kaufman Hall on Wednesday. Read more...

Photo: Members of the UCLA Sex Squad will use humor, dance and song to talk about sexual health for their upcoming show “ForePLAY.” The musical number “Condón Puesto” will demonstrate how to put on condoms in preparation for safe sex. (Chengcheng Zhang/Daily Bruin)


Wacsmash to highlight personal stories of student choreographers

Five women will glide across a mostly bare stage, with only a table, a newspaper and a photo of a house wrecked by natural disaster to set the scene in Glorya Kaufman Hall. Read more...

Photo: Raphael Smith, a fourth-year dance student, choreographed “Mad Haus,” a piece that uses Vogue Femme dance moves to rebel against the masculine standards that Smith grew up with. (Edward Figueroa/Daily Bruin)


Past bleeds into present in Hillel at UCLA’s newest art exhibits

Past and present intertwine in Robert Weingarten’s artwork, which layers photos of the burning World Trade Center and the One World Trade Center. The photograph is a part of Weingarten’s exhibit, “Pentimento,” which will open Thursday for Hillel at UCLA’s Winter 2018 Art Opening along with Corrie Siegel’s “The Space Between Symbols.” The show is part of the organization’s annual art gallery, which showcases nine new art exhibits every year. Read more...

Photo: Hillel at UCLA’s Winter 2018 Art Opening features photographs from Robert Weingarten’s photo series “Pentimento” that layer Weingarten’s own contemporary photos with older, historical images of the same location. The exhibition also features paper cuttings from Corrie Siegel’s “The Space Between Symbols.” (Pinkie Su/Daily Bruin)


Student’s international basketball career inspires life as an artist

Coleman Collins transitioned from shooting baskets to shooting film. Prior to coming to UCLA, the graduate art student pursued a professional basketball career spanning over a decade, taking him to countries including Germany, Ukraine and Bahrain. Read more...

Photo: Graduate art student Coleman Collins played basketball professionally in countries such as Ukraine, Germany and Bahrain for over a decade. Now, he’s studying art at UCLA and said his experiences abroad help inspire his artwork. (Mia Kayser/Daily Bruin)


Design media arts students display artwork inspired by prefix

Three letters and a hyphen inspired a 27-artist exhibit. Undergraduate design media arts students will display their artistic interpretations of the prefix “dis-” at the New Wight Gallery on Thursday. Read more...

Photo: Matea Friend, a fifth-year design media arts student, explores how time affects identity in their video installation titled “Tempus Fugit.” Friend asked subjects, ranging in age from five to 75 years old, to define universal concepts like beauty and failure. (Daniel Leibowitz/Daily Bruin staff)



Art students depict change by bringing LA seasons into Powell rotunda

Students in search of some sunlit studying need not look any further than the campus library’s rotunda. The Art History Undergraduate Student Association created an art exhibition in Powell Library focusing on different incarnations of the four seasons, revealing each artists’ personal relation to seasonal change. Read more...

Photo: Fourth-year art and art history student Ricky Amadour created an abstract acrylic painting entitled “Poolboy,” which features broad strokes of purple paint in an effort to evoke a feeling of springtime without explicitly depicting any images associated with the season. (Manpreet Grewal/Daily Bruin)



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