Twelve figures will sit around a dinner table and play a game of chance. As the cards are played, the genetic game proceeds to inform each player about his or her connection to each other and the animals around them. On Thursday, the Art | Sci Center’s gallery will host the very first Hox Zodiac […]
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‘Ugly’ Christmas sweaters turn into hot trend
Chilly mornings and commercial jingles on nearly every channel, station and media outlet can only mean one thing: Winter is coming, and with it, the holiday season. December also brings a holiday tradition to fend off the crisp winter air: Christmas sweaters. “You never really see the same Christmas sweater,” said third-year molecular, cell and […]
UCLA student makes his mark as tattoo artist
Juan Garces used to think tattoos were taboo. Now, he has tattooed more than 150 students. Garces, a fifth-year Spanish and community and culture student, has been tattooing students at UCLA since he transferred here three years ago. After his younger brother pursued a tattooing apprenticeship and began working at Cali Life Tattoo in Newport […]
Student receives Mellon Undergraduate Curatorial Fellowship at LACMA
Lilia Taboada grew up surrounded by art. The third-year world arts and cultures student said being raised in a bi-racial family paved the way for many childhood memories spent within art museums, learning about the identity and culture of her mixed heritage. At the same time, her father, Arturo Taboada, brought some of his architectural […]
Alum Michael Soll self-publishes first novel, ‘Scorched’
Between classes, UCLA alumnus Michael Soll navigated the stories that unfolded in his imagination. These thoughts often progressed to the next phases of Soll’s writing processes, into his phone, then to his computer, on which he would write from his dorm room desk.
The pLAces you’ll go: Meltdown Comics and Collectables
There are more than 500 square miles of city surrounding UCLA’s campus, which takes up a minuscule fraction of that mileage. For such a big place, Los Angeles at times seems impossible to navigate. But don’t let size steer you away from your sense of adventure and curiosity. Each week this quarter, follow columnist Maryrose […]
Faculty launches books exploring social questions through digital humanities
There is a soccer stadium in Berlin with layers of invisible past buried below it. In the early days of the 19th century it was lower-class housing. Then it was a small train stop. Then, progressively larger and more baroque train stations were built on the site. In World War II, that train station was […]