The sky is dark blue, mixed with bright pink – almost the color of a television tuned to a dead channel. The player walks around as giant heads burst from a neon landscape. There is no score. Currently untitled, this game is the longest of what fourth-year Design | Media Arts student Philip Scott calls […]
Category Archives: Theater & Fine Arts
Marvel breathes new life into former Image Comics character Angela
Marvel Comics has seen an increase in mainstream popularity with the recent release of several box-office hits such as “The Avengers.” Since its inception in 1939, the comic book company has created thousands of characters. While not all of them may get their due publicity because of a lack of exposure on the silver screen, […]
Q&A: Peter Sellars talks new UCLA project, art’s role in US politics
Photographer Richard Ross spoke about his art in front of world arts and cultures/dance professor Peter Sellars’ students two years ago. For Sellars and many others, Ross’ work has sparked a series of conversations about criminal injustice in America. For the past several years, Ross has interviewed and photographed the lives of incarcerated youth in […]
Competition held to decorate Wooden Center with UCLA community art
After the art in the John Wooden Center was damaged by the campus-wide flood in July, Elizabeth Palmer spotted a way to engage the UCLA community. The John Wooden Center Art Commission competition, created by Palmer, seeks to fill the wall space left empty after the flood damaged multiple works. Open to anyone in the […]
Q&A: LA artist cuts through blue tape, brings street art to JazzReggae
Los Angeles-based artist Flëkz transforms a 10-by-20-foot blank wall into a work of art with just a roll of blue tape. Art first piqued Gustavo Fuentes’ interest five years ago, and since then, in addition to being a second-year California State University, Northridge student, he said he has been doing both street art and commissioned […]
Unsung Heroes: Father-daughter dynamic makes Hope Summers’ story relatable
Marvel Comics has seen an increase in mainstream popularity with the recent release of several box office hits, such as “The Avengers.” Since its inception in 1939, the comic book company has created thousands of characters. While not all of them may get their due publicity because of a lack of exposure on the silver […]
English department hires two new creative writing professors
Writers Justin Torres and Fred D’Aguiar read excerpts from their novels at UCLA in February, part of the hiring process searching for a new creative writing professor in the English department. Rather than one, both D’Aguiar and Torres will join the English department in fall 2015 and winter 2016, respectively, adding more potential courses to […]