Sixteen graduating master of fine arts students will transform the blank white walls and open spaces of the New Wight Gallery at the Broad Art Center with pieces ranging from photography, to drawings, to static objects and models. Read more...
Photo: (Heidy Cadena/Daily Bruin)
Comic books are everywhere – Marvel and DC Comics are mining decades of story lines for a huge slate of movies and television shows. But comics are more than a source to be mined for superhero blockbusters. Read more...
Photo: Mike Mignola’s comic “Hellboy,” which tells the story of a half-demon secret agent, was colored by Dave Stewart, who uses shadows to cover the page with rich, deep black colors. (Courtesy of Mike Mignola and Dave Stewart)
“Charles Gaines: Gridwork 1974-1989” Charles Gaines UCLA Hammer Museum 4.0 paws From a distance, mounted frames appear to contain simple sketches of walnut trees. However, upon closer inspection, the shapes of the limbs and branches reveal themselves to be comprised of tiny hand-written numbers filling the blocks of a grid. Read more...
Photo: (Courtesy of Brian Forrest)
In the world of “Isla Lacerta,” lizards can data mine and explorers can journey through caves. Design | Media Arts graduate student Theo Triantafyllidis’ solo exhibition, “Isla Lacerta” will be on display Tuesday and Wednesday in the Experimental Digital Arts room of Broad Art Center. Read more...
Photo: Theo Triantafyllidis, a Design | Media Arts graduate student, will conduct his first solo exhibition, which incorporates artwork and virtual reality. The artwork features the virtual world of Isla Lacerate, inspired by conspiracy theories, dinosaur archeology and virtual exhibitions. (Mary Kate Turner/Daily Bruin)
A homeless drunkard and a stockbroker meet and reveal secrets of their pasts to eventually follow a path of self-acceptance. This is one of three student-written and produced scenes that the UCLA theater group Lapu, the Coyote that Cares Theatre Company will present in its winter show, “The Future, the Present, and the Rest is History…,” funded by the Undergraduate Students Association Council. Read more...
Photo: Lapu, the Coyote that Cares Theatre Company will perform its winter show, “The Future, the Present, and the Rest is History…,” starring first-year molecular, cell and developmental biology student Julianna Remo (left) and fourth-year history student Nathan Guzik (right). (Owen Emerson/Daily Bruin)
In a technologically-driven society where attention spans are increasingly conditioned by the immediate fulfillment of our digital devices, there exists a group of dancers whose languid movements challenge the contemporary human. Read more...
Photo: Maria Hassabi’s “Plastic” exhibition at the Hammer Museum features dancers sprawled out around the grounds of the museum. (Max Himmelrich/Daily Bruin)
World arts and culture/dance professor David Delgado Shorter said that throughout his time as an adviser, he's often encountered graduate students who aren't firm with their goals and expectations – he never had that problem with Alessandra Williams. Read more...
Photo: Before becoming a teaching assistant, world arts and culture/dance graduate student Alessandra Williams was a dancer at the Ananya Dance Theater where she danced to choreography that is rooted in Indian aesthetic forms. (Aubrey Yeo/Daily Bruin senior staff)
