Her bangles, shimmering under the chandelier lights of Kerckhoff Grand Salon, accompanied the Arabic music like jingle bells. Her hips moved separately, as if disconnected from the rest of her body. Read more...

Photo: Belly dance performer Josie Bellydance (center) instructed the belly dancing portion of the Ballroom Dance Club’s Middle East Culture Night on Monday at the Kerckhoff Grand Salon. At the event, Josie Bellydance also led a question-and-answer session in which she answered questions, for example, about the technique behind movements. (Rocio Flores Huaringa/Daily Bruin)

Fourth-year art history student Canan Cem turned a page of her Andean textiles textbook, leafing through the glossy photos of pre-Columbian mantles, shawls and tunics woven in bright reds, browns and eggshell blues. Read more...

Photo: Fourth-year art history student Canan Cem (left) and third-year history and art history student Audrey Min are the two first-year Andrew W. Mellon undergraduate curatorial fellows at LACMA. Cem and Min shadow curators in the costumes and textiles department and in Chinese and Korean art, respectively. (Kira VandenBrande/Daily Bruin)

Vy Giap had globs of Nutella in her hair that left tracks on her shoulders. As she spun around laughing, she then pasted a handful of the hazelnut chocolate spread on another student’s bare stomach. Read more...

Photo: Indulge in Design, a new design-centric club on campus, hosted “Bodies & Nutella” Tuesday evening in Broad Art Center. The event comprised a photo shoot of club members and their friends painting Nutella over each other’s bodies to learn about indulgence in food and society. (Tehya Faulk/Daily Bruin)

A crowd of 13 spectators huddled around a painting, Njideka Akunyili Crosby’s “And We Begin to Let Go,” hung on the dimly lit wall of the Hammer gallery. Read more...

Photo: Hammer Museum student educators and UCLA students Audrey Brown (left), Martin Spasov (center) and Weiwen Balter (right) lead “conversations” between two artworks in the Art in Conversation program on Sundays. (Daniel Alcazar/Daily Bruin senior staff)