Alumna uses screenwriting experience to write comic book series

Madeleine Holly-Rosing wanted to create a steampunk television show, but when financial backing fell through, she decided to make a comic book instead. The 2009 screenwriting alumna and professional writer uses her experience in screenwriting to write stories in another type of visual medium – comic scripts. Her most renowned work, the 2012 “Boston Metaphysical […]

Second-year theater student makes off-Broadway debut in ‘Blamed’

Lillie Muir was a sophomore in high school when she was cast in “Blamed: An Established Fiction,” the show that would eventually lead to her off-Broadway debut at the SoHo Playhouse earlier this month. The second-year theater student was a part of “Blamed” from its conception in 2014. As a core part of the play’s […]

UCLA partners with Getty Center to bring Spanish language films to LA

The UCLA Film and Television Archive returns the golden age of Spanish language cinema back to Main Street. The Getty Center’s second iteration of the arts initiative “Pacific Standard Time” spotlights the Latin American creative space in Los Angeles, titled “Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA.” UCLA’s Film and Television Archive teamed up with the Getty to […]

UCLA’s numerous dance groups allow students to find their rhythm

With more than 20 dance groups on campus, it can be difficult to find a niche. But whether a dancer’s passions lie in choreographing, competing for a top prize or even learning the basics to wow friends and family, the UCLA dance community offers students numerous opportunities to get involved. Ballroom Founded two years ago, […]

Rehired Hammer Museum curator shares vision for Grunwald Center

The Hammer Museum announced the rehiring of former Grunwald Center the Graphic Arts curator Allegra Pesenti this summer, just four years after her departure in 2013. While away from the Hammer, Pesenti worked for the Menil Collection, where she collaborated with architects Sharon Johnston and Mark Lee to develop the Menil Drawing Institute in Houston. […]

First-year student fuses hip-hop and electronic music on EP ‘Binary’

Noah Crousore has produced music under about 35 different aliases with approximately 3 million combined SoundCloud plays on his tracks. But for the first-year pre-business economics student’s newest EP, he turned to just one: BLDRNNR. “I’m always used to creating a bunch of different aliases because I like making a bunch of different music,” Crousore […]

Video: Hammer Museum’s ‘Radical Women’ exhibit celebration

The Hammer Museum celebrated the opening of “Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960–1985.” Galleries were open late with live music coming from the courtyard and food trucks. Guests participated in the organizing of important works by artists Martha Araújo, Mónica Mayer and Regina Silveira.