This post was updated May 14 at 4:45 p.m. The saz – a Middle Eastern instrument with a long, ornamented neck – gives voice to a lizard in a one-woman play. Read more...
Photo: Stacie Chaiken wrote and will perform in “The DIG” which will be presented Tuesday in Glorya Kaufman Hall. The one-woman play follows genetic archaeologist Sally Jenkins as she travels to Israel to solve the mystery behind a 4,000-year-old tomb. (Elise Tsai/Daily Bruin)
This post was updated May 4 at 11:21 a.m. Home is a central concept of the American Dream, but Rodney McMillian said it continues to be inaccessible to many. Read more...
Photo: Professor Rodney McMillian’s abstract art exhibit, “In This Land,” will be on display at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art until June 9. McMillian said the piece is meant to engage with the political and social ideologies that constitute American culture and the concept of home. (Courtesy of Rodney McMillian and Vielmetter Los Angeles)
This post was updated May 4 at 11:25 a.m. Architecture can feel unfamiliar without simultaneously feeling alien – William O’Brien Jr. will propose this idea in his upcoming lecture at UCLA. Read more...
Photo: William O’Brien Jr., an associate professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will give a talk on Monday in Perloff Hall as part of the latest iteration of UCLA’s Architecture and Urban Design lecture series. His talk will highlight his recent works with William O’Brien Jr., or WOJR, his independent design firm. (Courtesy of Andrew Markham)
Visitors can witness a new Hammer Museum installation before they even enter the galleries. “Up Close in Distance,” designed by Yunhee Min, will be on display in the Hammer until Oct. Read more...
Photo: Painter and installation artist Yunhee Min made “Up Close in Distance,” an installation in the lobby of the Hammer Museum which will be on display until Oct. 27. It displays a design involving pools of paint of many different colors. (Sim Beauchamp/Daily Bruin)
Art, the universal language, can transcend space and time to reach a diverse audience. We hear this all the time, but do we truly feel the weight of these words? Read more...
Photo: An empty chair at a table with an open newspaper is an installation at the Hammer Museum. For this week’s “Art to Heart,” columnist Lisa Aubry visited the museum and watched as visitors observed the installation. (Lisa Aubry/Daily Bruin)
Editor’s note: This post was updated to replace the featured art due to safety concerns from the subject. Hirad Sab used ten-dollar hardware to holographically render faces on a gallery wall. Read more...
Photo: Hirad Sab’s solo exhibition features his recent work titled “Disfigure Refigure,” an installation hosted in Broad Art Center. The graduate student’s exhibition opened Tuesday and ends Thursday. “Disfigure Refigure” is constructed from laser-cut acrylic sheets and is shaped like a cube, hanging from the ceiling by metal cords. The sheets are laid on top of one another and together form a layered image of a human head. Sab said he wanted to make the head shape as ambiguous as possible. (Courtesy of Hirad Sab)
Professors are usually bound to their classrooms – but these three members of UCLA faculty will spend a year away to pursue their personal projects. Sylvan Oswald, an assistant playwriting professor, Lothar von Falkenhausen, a professor of Chinese archaeology and art history, and Elisabeth Le Guin, a musicology professor, are three of this year’s four UCLA professors who are Guggenheim Fellowship recipients. Read more...
Photo: Lothar von Falkenhausen, a UCLA professor of Chinese archaeology and art history, is a Guggenheim Fellowship recipient. Three other UCLA faculty members, including Sylvan Oswald and Elisabeth Le Guin, are also recipients. (Courtesy of Lothar Von Falkenhausen)
