Pinar Yoldas challenged her gallery attendees to an interactive yoga session in a dark, hot room. The necessary heat radiated from a glowing red sign reading “GLOBAL WARMING.” Alumna and artist Yoldas discussed her 2016 installation, “Global Warming Hot Yoga Studio,” in UCLA’s Counterforce Now lecture series Thursday entitled, “Causality is Broken: Can We Fix […]
Category Archives: Theater & Fine Arts
Artist explores many emotional dimensions of childbirth through collage project
This post was updated on May 23 at 12:59 p.m. Over two thousand childbirth photographs covered the walls of New York’s Museum of Modern Art in 2018. Society often depicts birth as agonizing and grotesque, but artist Carmen Winant aims to break the stigma through her collages. The alumna will give a talk at the […]
Karma is a satanist magician avenging middle school slights, in grad student’s play
Sometimes, a multimillionaire satanist magician can be the answer to one’s prayers. The concept might not be realistic, but Jeffrey Limoncelli used it as a means to explore past sins and revenge. Limoncelli, a graduate playwriting student, will present “The Answer to Your Prayers” at the School of Theater, Film and Television’s New Play Festival. […]
Art to Heart: Digital media artists’ synesthetic storytelling enlivens and humanizes history
This post was updated on May 23 at 1:31 p.m. Art, the universal language, can transcend space and time to reach a diverse audience. We hear this all the time, but do we truly feel the weight of these words? A cloud of elitism envelops the “art world,” alienating the perspectives of some while glorifying […]
Student-produced play uses gods to mirror themes reflected in actors’ own lives
Gods and goddesses will rule over destruction and chaos from campus this week. An event titled “An Evening of Devised Works,” running Thursday through Saturday in Melnitz Hall, will catalogue their actions. The event’s single play, titled “A Creation Myth,” is the result of Cohort 6 – a group of graduate acting students – partnering […]
Group’s play examines different perspectives of conflict by involving audience
Audience members will vote on a doctor’s fate after he uncovers a clandestine truth. On Sunday at Schoenberg Hall, the CFan Chinese Theater Group will perform “An Enemy of the People,” a 19th-century play by Henrik Ibsen. The play follows Dr. Thomas Stockmann and his investigation of possibly contaminated water, which the townspeople use to […]
The Centennial Issue: The Getty | Outreach
The glimmering Getty Museum can appear to be a faraway place, full of prestigious art that may perhaps seem hard to understand for an average person. But the J. Paul Getty Trust has made it a goal to change that. Through multiple programs, the Getty Trust has the common goal of making art and arts […]