A sign in Beverly Hills read“Stop making stupid people famous.” A makeshift grave marked victims of gun violence on Melrose Ave. A “Useless Plastic Box” was priced at $99.99 inside a Sherman Oaks Best Buy. These are just a few examples of the artist’s illegal street art that could be seen scattered throughout the Los […]
Category Archives: Theater & Fine Arts
Hammer exhibition explores Parisian female archetypes
A woman furrows her eyebrows and grits her teeth, bracing herself as she pulls up the hem of her skirt. She injects a syringe into her thigh, and on the table beside her sits the source of her pain and detrimental pleasure: morphine. She is the subject of French artist Eugene Grasset’s print “La morphinomane […]
Graduate student designers develop costumes based on painting
To costume designer and professor Deborah Landis, the story of a stage performance begins before the characters utter a single word. Landis, founding director of the David Copley Center for the Study of Costume Design, said costumes are integral in developing the characters’ story. Through the art of costume design, eight students strive to create […]
Q&A: Wayne McGregor talks choreography and FAR production
From teaching the young stars of “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire” how to dance to choreographing Radiohead’s “Lotus Flower” music video and working for the Royal Ballet in London, British choreographer and director Wayne McGregor has played a lot of different roles in the world of dance. His style is characterized by the […]
Theater Review: “Penny Plain”
Dim blue lighting barely filters through tiled paneling, illuminating ever so slightly the miniature faces of half-seen marionettes. A platform, reminiscent of a structurally sound tree house, fills center stage. Two lone armchairs sit in front. Soon, eerily futuristic music – a combination of electronic pitches and disco beats – begins to play, and various […]
UCLA students interpret “Recess” in Broad Art Center exhibit
Upon entering New Wight Gallery, a transparent sheet filled with multitudes of identical doll heads wearing different colored hats stands out. However, under closer inspection, one realizes the hats are actually condoms. In contrast to the innocence associated with recess, “P.O.P.”, a piece by fourth-year Design | Media Arts student Jed Bass, combines a child’s […]
Synthesis Dance Theater to showcase broad range of styles
After four years of dancing together, Grace Matteson and Taylor Whitakers’ years of close friendship inevitably surface in the synchronization of their movements. “We have connected so much outside of dancing that now we connect in the dance,” Matteson said. “You can tell when people dancing have a connection but it’s something you just have […]