This week, Broad Art Center’s Untitled Café will add joysticks and digital games to its menu to create the Untitled Arcade. With the addition of the arcade machines that UCLA Game Lab has installed, students have the opportunity to play video games that fellow undergraduates and graduates have designed in the past year. The UCLA […]
Category Archives: Theater & Fine Arts
UCLA graduate student cultivates identity through mushroom art
In the corner of a UCLA graduate studio, mushrooms grow on a pair of jeans, a toy lizard and a knit pullover. For his exhibition, Design | Media Arts graduate student Peter Lu said he decided on a more traditional and tangible approach instead of using media technology: planting mushrooms on everyday things. Lu said […]
Alumna celebrates first coming-of-age novel based on UCLA experiences
Katie Neipris said Saturday evening was dreamlike. It was the night of the UCLA alumna’s book launch party, marking the release of her new novel, “The Inconvenient Process of Falling.” Kerckhoff Grand Salon was filled with balloons as Neipris’ family and friends celebrated her first book with a photo booth, food and book signing with […]
Unsung Heroes: Black Bolt, Inhumans gain prominence in comics, film with rebranding
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 in the silver […]
Graduate students showcase works in second of MFA Exhibition series
A space expedition, a ceramic city, a superhero reinvention and a scene from the Israel-Palestine conflict comprise the second exhibition in the graduate students’ series, MFA Exhibition No. 2. The exhibition will run through Friday in the New Wight Gallery in the Broad Art Center. As the second of four, this exhibition includes installations from […]
Spring Theater Preview 2015
Spring’s ample theater schedule offers an avenue for students to entertain themselves after being freed from the clutches of winter quarter. From the theater department to Hooligan Theatre Company to the Geffen Playhouse in Westwood, this quarter promises a busy theater season both on and off campus. “Thoroughly Modern Millie” Friday, 8 p.m. Freud Playhouse […]
Spring Lifestyle Preview 2015
Spring quarter may be the time of the year that best represents the postcard UCLA lifestyle. Shorts, tank tops and sun-drenched mischief energize the student body. This springtime rejuvenation presents an opportunity for the UCLA community to explore all the greater L.A. area has to offer, from food to upcoming book and video game releases. […]