In a world obsessed with photography and its technology, UCLA’s Hammer Museum is now presenting an exhibition showing the revival of representational painting called “The Undiscovered Country.” While many have forgotten or ignored painting as an adequate means to depict reality since the popularization of photography, the Hammer Museum hopes to dispel such thoughts by displaying works representing modern reality in ways photography can’t. Read more...

UCLA can be a big place, whether you’re a first-year freshman or a super senior. And Los Angeles is even larger. So I’m sure there are lots of questions you must have about the school we call our home and the giant post-modern mess of a city that surrounds it. Read more...

There’s chatter circulating the L.A. theater world, and the rumor is that the new season at the Geffen Playhouse is riskier than in years past. If “Take Me Out,” playing now as part of the 10-year-long American Originals series, is any indication of what is to come, the buzz is right. Read more...

California dreamin’ might not be quite as light and breezy anymore, at least according to the featured artists in this year’s art department show, “Dark Side of the Sun,” curated by some of UCLA’s graduate art students. Read more...

?Raise Your Voice? Directed by Sean McNamara New Line Cinema When you think of Hilary Duff, Ludwig van Beethoven probably isn?t the first person who comes to mind. Read more...

The wildly popular Italian cinema class, known informally to students as “Sex and Politics” and formally as Italian 46, has introduced many undergraduates to great cinematic legends such as Roberto Rossellini and Bernardo Bertolucci. Read more...

Actor Terrell Tilford is completely irritated with the fact that he keeps getting questioned about performing nude on stage. “I don’t really understand why,” he said. Read more...