A moment of violence occurs between two women who grow competitive over a man. Tensions soar and the situation results in a vicious brawl in which the character of Irene, played by fourth-year musical theater student Leah Bezozo, is tied by her auburn hair to the base of an ottoman. Read more...

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Master of fine arts in directing student Conor Hanratty’s production of “Pains of Youth” opens tonight at Macgowan Hall. The play focuses on six promiscuous medical students whose lives intertwine as they balance school and life in their boarding house.

Latin American author Gabriel García Márquez surprised Monica Payne in the last two pages of his novella "The Incredible and Sad Tale of Innocent Eréndira and Her Heartless Grandmother" with a hopeful ending. Read more...

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“The Incredible and Sad Tale of Innocent Eréndira and Her Heartless Grandmother” will premiere Saturday at 8 p.m. in the Little Theater at Macgowan Hall. The story follows a Colombian girl who lives with a wealth-obsessed grandmother.

King Arthur pulled Excalibur from the stone, Thor wielded his mighty hammer, and the UCLA Game Lab has the Eli Broad sword "“ or at least a couple drawings of it on its walls and door. Read more...

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A screenshot from one of the games presented at the first annual Intermural Game Carnival, which will be among the games featured today at 5 p.m. at the UCLA Game Lab in the first floor of the Broad Arts Center.

courtesy of David Elliott

Each of the dozens of photographs in the Getty Museum's "A Revolutionary Project: Cuba from Walker Evans to Now" has a label next to it, except one. Read more...

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Alberto Korda’s print of female soldiers in Havana’s Plaza de la Revolución, the same place where Korda shot his famous image of Che Guevara, is among the photographs on view at the Getty’s “Revolutionary Cuba: From Walker Evans To Now.”

Wednesday evening, five UCLA professors will abandon their podiums for the turntable at the UCLA Hammer Museum's "Ph.DJs," an event at which professors will get to spin and share the stories behind some of their favorite songs with a student audience. Professors were each asked to design a short set of four tracks to introduce and play in the museum's Gallery 6 annex. Read more...

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Professors and Ph.DJs from top: George Baker, Stephen Deters, Claudia Mitchell-Kernan, Anthony Seeger and Joseph Teran. (Credit: Hammer Museum)

Among the emotional paintings and political photographs on the wall in the Kerckhoff Art Gallery is a single poem, inspired by the complexities and contradictions of Israel and one of the final pieces of the Art Peace exhibition. Read more...

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Maya Hochstadter’s “Untitled”
(Courtesy of Maya Hochstadter)

Correction: The original version of this caption miscredited the artist.