Nga Mai’s graphic design depicts a lone fisherman sailing on a nearly empty ocean; despite the lack of fish left in the sea, his boat is piled with them. The fourth-year biology student submitted her piece to an art competition conducted by RefineLA, a thrift shop founded by UCLA students. RefineLA opened during spring quarter […]
Category Archives: Arts
‘Game of Thrones’ season 8 recap – Episode 2: ‘A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms’
Winter is here: The final season of “Game of Thrones” is one of the most highly anticipated television events of the last decade. Follow our columnists as they explore students’ weekly reactions as an iconic era of pop culture comes to an end. Beware, spoilers lie ahead. Death is coming! But first, we return to […]
Roundtable talk to examine roles of women in medieval society, rediscover gold
Objects are more privileged than subjects, Sara Burdorff suggests in UCLA’s next Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Roundtable. Typically, men in Anglo-Saxon literature are viewed as the subjects – nonmarginalized, active players. Women, on the other hand, are interpreted as passive objects, but Burdorff said she aims to challenge these conventional norms. Over the […]
Hammer’s ‘wasteland’-themed Arts Party considers material reuse, artistic inspiration
Students touched prickly plants to inform their swirls of black ink at the Hammer Museum’s annual Arts Party. Students from around Southern California came together Friday night to explore the museum’s galleries and participate in student-led workshops. The event also included poetry readings, DJs and live music. This year’s theme, “Wasteland,” centered the night on […]
Theater review: ‘The Niceties’ examines emotional fallout and complexity in conversations about race
Ever have an intense conversation with a professor during office hours? Politely asking for a grade change or feigning interest in their research for a recommendation letter might yield awkward encounters, but it surely can’t top “The Niceties.” The play, which will run at the Geffen Playhouse until May 12, follows university student Zoe Wood’s […]
Live at Coachella 2019
Daily Bruin staffers are hitting the desert to cover 2019’s Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. Stay tuned for stories about your favorite artists and Bruins’ experiences.
Professor’s podcast unmasks science behind superheroes and sci-fi
Thanos had to break a few laws of nature before he eradicated half of the universe with a snap. Topics similar to the Marvel villain’s defiance of physics are addressed in “The Biology of Superheroes Podcast,” hosted by Shane Campbell-Staton, a UCLA ecology and evolutionary biology assistant professor. What originally began as a two-week course […]