Video: Hammer Museum offers sensory trip to Japan

“You walk in, you sit down, you’re blindfolded and then this audio track takes you through the story … with scents,” said Saskia Wilson-Brown, founder of The Institute for Art and Olfaction, about “A Trip to Japan in Sixteen Minutes, Revisited.” The scent concert, held at the Hammer Museum from today to Sunday, takes its […]

Video: Full-time student, part-time barber

“I think it’s art because … when they first come, it’s like hair all over the place, it’s like a blank canvas,” says Michael Sianturi, a fourth-year psychobiology student who offers haircuts at his apartment and accepts donations to go toward his college expenses. Step inside SIanturi’s pseudo-barbershop where he finds lives out his passion […]

Video: Lunchtime Disco at the Hammer

“We had one Lunchtime Disco where people created a conga line that was going in and out of the doors onto Wilshire Boulevard and people were doing – dancing up and down the sidewalk and up and down the stairs,” says Allison Agsten, The Hammer Museum’s Curator of Public Engagement. KCHUNG Radio, which broadcasts from […]

Video: Team creates “Pillanthrophy” at UCLA Inventathon 2013

As part of UCLA’s 2013 Innovation Week, teams of students competed in a 24-hour Inventathon from Oct. 4 to Oct. 5 to try to find the best solution to a medical need. Follow one team of four as they create a mobile application called “Pillanthrophy” to help solve the problem of administering medicine to the […]

Video: Behind the scenes of Aditya Prakash Ensemble’s Ford Theater performance

Elements of traditional Indian music and jazz fuse together with classical Indian dance to tell an intricate story of illusion, relationships and the depths of the mind. Go behind the scenes as the group recreates the legend of Mara for its performance at the Ford Theater on September 21, 2013.