Category Archives: Arts

Mexico’s pop star Cristian offers strong concert at Amphitheater Pre-show delays overlooked by devoted crowd By Jeff Hilger Cristian Castro, Mexico’s newest pop superstar, overcame a number of pre-show difficulties in his Friday night concert at the Universal Amphitheater. Despite having his audience wait outside the theater for over two hours, and then getting hit […]

Masochist Flanagan endures pain for the artistic pleasure By Nisha Gopalan "Sewn up and nailed to a two-by-four," reads the caption written by performance artist Bob Flanagan for a 1989 "Auto-erotic SM" performance. The picture above the caption reveals Flanagan, from waist-down, with a sewn-up penis (folded in half with the skin under brought up […]

‘Frankenstein’ takes on new look at Odyssey By Barbara Hernandez Daily Bruin Staff If using two people to play one person seems odd, perhaps you aren’t used to science fiction. In the spirit of Halloween, the Glorious Repertory Company stages their newest adaptation and world premiere of Mary Godwin Shelley’s "Frankenstein" at the Odyssey Theatre. […]

Danzig intimidates even without costumes Halloween show By John Sabatini On this evening of diabolical darkness, nightfall will be the harbinger of an entity more supremely evil than the foulest ghouls or the fiercest demons. Tonight, the punk/metal powerhouse Danzig will descend in all its devastating potency upon the sorry souls in attendance at the […]

Performers bleed for art Burden delivers performance art innovative shot in the arm By Nisha Gopalan On Nov. 19, 1971 at 7:45 p.m., performance artist Chris Burden stood in anticipation while his friend, 15 feet away, shot him in his left arm with a .22-caliber rifle. Journalists would later refer to this performance entitled "Shoot" […]

‘This is Halloween’ By Lael Loewenstein It’s Halloween again, and that means it’s time to rent last year’s feature smash, Tim Burton’s Nightmare Before Christmas. An astonishing combination of ghouls, effects and stop-motion technical wizardry, the recently-released video is the perfect Halloween treat. The story of Jack Skellington, spiritual leader of Halloweentown, and his misguided […]

Performance artists’ bodies, minds go to extreme with art genres, self-mutilation By Nisha Gopalan Paints, pencils and plaster are generally assumed to be the tools of the traditional artist. However, the principal material of performance art ­ a genre that transcends the bounds of classical art ­ involves the expression of the human body. "Although […]