This post was updated May 4 at 11:25 a.m. Architecture can feel unfamiliar without simultaneously feeling alien – William O’Brien Jr. will propose this idea in his upcoming lecture at UCLA. Instead of generating entire architectural structures that jar the senses, O’Brien said he is interested in modifying small details that will fascinate audiences without […]
Category Archives: Theater & Fine Arts
Hammer Museum installation delivers vibrant, sensory experience
Visitors can witness a new Hammer Museum installation before they even enter the galleries. “Up Close in Distance,” designed by Yunhee Min, will be on display in the Hammer until Oct. 27. With a design involving pools of paint in differing colors, it is the museum’s first project to be incorporated primarily into the lobby’s […]
Art to Heart: Close encounters with contentious art challenge long-held conceptions, definitions
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 those of others. In efforts to challenge ideas that reinforce […]
Student’s art examines nexus of 3D graphics, surveillance technology and identity
Hirad Sab used ten-dollar hardware to holographically render faces on a gallery wall. With artistic endeavors informed by his background in coding and programming, Sab said he favors digital applications like Blender, an open-source 3D modeling software, over the typical paint palette. His solo exhibition, which opened Tuesday and ends Thursday, features his most recent […]
Guggenheim Fellowship recipients discuss their plans to pursue new projects
Professors are usually bound to their classrooms – but these three members of UCLA faculty will spend a year away to pursue their personal projects. Sylvan Oswald, an assistant playwriting professor, Lothar von Falkenhausen, a professor of Chinese archaeology and art history, and Elisabeth Le Guin, a musicology professor, are three of this year’s four […]
Alum transitions from pro athlete to full-time artist with new painting collection
Alumnus Brian Poli-Dixon spent his UCLA career balancing collegiate football and art. Poli-Dixon’s current collection of paintings, titled “Genius,” was unveiled April 14 at the Artworld Fine Art gallery. Poli-Dixon said painting has always been present in his life, even though a large part of it was spent playing for the UCLA football team and […]
Forum theatre performance to promote audience participation with social issues
Instead of sitting back and watching a production unfold, audiences will have the opportunity to actively participate in an upcoming performance. Representatives of Rio de Janeiro’s Center for Theatre of the Oppressed will present a night of forum theatre Wednesday. Created in the 1970s by drama theorist and activist Augusto Boal, forum theatre has audience […]