British artist Mark Leckey will speak tonight at 7 p.m. at the Hammer Museum as part of the UCLA Department of Art’s guest lecture series.
Author Archives: Lenika Cruz
Soundbites: "Conatus"
Listening to Zola Jesus’ third album “Conatus” is like having a near-perfect hallucination. While the music itself is real enough, it conjures up a strange topography in the mind: heartless tundra, lifeless subterranea, a monochrome planet riddled with craters.
L.A. Chicano life during the ’70s will be in a new exhibit at Fowler Museum
A typical visual account of Chicano life in ’70s East Los Angeles may summon images of poverty and violence ““ that is, if one sifts through much of the photography produced by mass media of the time.
Curated by UCLA graduate students, “˜Circulate, Exchange: Nugget & Gravy’ features works inspired by the marketplace
Earlier this year, Josh Cho spent two months rummaging through dumpsters behind commercial photography labs for something no one else seemed to want: discarded photographs.
Faith, illuminated
To some, a title like “In the Beginning Was the Word: Medieval Gospel Illumination” evokes ideas antithetical to modernity: tradition, religion and non-reproducibility.
Concert review: Purity Ring
With just a handful of tracks, Purity Ring mesmerized the audience members, many of whom wasted no time lighting up and rolling into a collective groove.
Concert review: Smith Westerns
For 40 short minutes, the Chicago natives charmed a crowd of dusty, sweaty Angelenos with gleaming pop numbers that recalled ’70s glam rock and Beach Boys-style melodies.