The Court of Sciences, a location typically associated with science and math, catered to the fine arts this weekend as an inundation of artistic activity drew crowds to ArtsDay LA on Saturday. The event adopted the theme, “Explore the art within you,” and indeed granted attendants numerous possibilities to discover and harness their creative side. […]
Author Archives: Laura Picklesimer
Classroom activity
When he came to speak at UCLA several months ago, performance artist Guillermo Gómez-Peña probably never realized his words would fuel an elaborate film festival. World arts and cultures students listening to his lecture were struck by a single, much-debated question Gómez-Peña posed to them: “Is the classroom an activist space?” JoAnn Staten, a culture […]
Exhibitions building toward brighter future
Perloff Hall has been overwhelmed with an outpouring of architectural creativity ““ evident through models, diagrams and photos ““ as two architecture exhibitions opened Monday. The UCLA Department of Architecture and Urban Design will display “Currents: Winter ’06″ and “Critical Mass at the Fringe” with opening receptions for both tonight from 6 to 8. “Currents: […]
Experimental art
For many students at UCLA, the words “South Campus” evoke images of sleep-deprived students laboring over calculus and chemistry, enduring rigorous schedules in order to become future doctors, engineers and mathematicians. Many associate these students with equations and formulas, rather than paintings and sculptures. This is a stereotype that the Neuroscience Undergraduate Society hopes to […]
“˜Ship’ docks at UCLA
It would prove impossible to stereotypically categorize a performance by the company Pappa Tarahumara. Its performances could easily fall under the genres of dance, opera, song or abstract art. And although the company is based in Japan, the Tokyo ensemble bears the name of a Native American tribe. All that is certain is to expect […]
UCLA play sets drama into context
Starting today, audiences will have the opportunity to see one of the greatest conflicts in the history of the theater. The setting is Broadway in May of 1849, a time period in which Americans held extremely anti-British sentiments. In this heated atmosphere, two acting companies are simultaneously running productions of “Macbeth” ““ one led by […]