Sunday, March 8

Gallery to display photographer’s decades-long series of 3-D portraits

Viewfinders – miniature binocular-like objects – hang side by side from long strings along one wall of the Kerckhoff Art Gallery. Small and understated, the viewfinders appear to be ordinary, until one looks inside and a whole other three-dimensional world reveals itself. Read more...

Photo: Photographer James Payne’s 3-D American portraits showcase his friends, family and neighbors of the past 40 years. His photographs are currently displayed in the Kerckhoff Art Gallery as a part of the Cultural Affairs Commission’s Art Series. (Jose Ubeda/Daily Bruin staff)




Out of Focus: Kurosawa’s ‘Ran’ a beautiful take on ‘King Lear’

Blood stains the rolling hills of the Japanese countryside. Arrows fly through the air as warriors in phalanx formations march across the plains. In Akira Kurosawa’s “Ran,” these images are beautified – we see poetry in the bloodshed, poetry in war. Read more...

Photo: “Ran” is Japenese director Akira Kurosawa’s 1985 adaptation of the Shakespearean classic “King Lear” set in feudal Japan. The film will screen at The Cinefamily this Sunday. (The Criterion Collection)


Album Review: ‘I Never Learn’

Someone broke Lykke Li’s heart, and the results are an exquisite, if somewhat monochrome, self-portrait of pain and loneliness. “I Never Learn” is the Swedish singer-songwriter’s third album, the last in her self-described trilogy. Read more...

Photo: (LL Recordings)


Album Review: ‘Nikki Nack’

The first things you notice are the drums. Frantic, syncopated and groovy, the drums on “Nikki Nack”‘s first single, “Water Fountain,” have one intention, and one intention only: to make you dance. Read more...

Photo: (Courtesy of 4AD Records)


World Music and Movement Festival showcases array of cultures

Within the span of six hours, an array of dancers and musicians brought an unlikely mixture of objects to the Bruin Plaza stage. Some performers wore ghungroos – Indian anklets covered with metallic bells – and some wore cowboy hats. Read more...

Photo: The 2014 World Music and Movement Festival took place Saturday in Bruin Plaza, showcasing music and dance from cultures across the world. The UCLA Abhinaya dance team (pictured) performed its style of South Asian classical dance during the festival. (Jessica Zhou/Daily Bruin)