One student commemorates a World War II fighter pilot and his plane through a new, choreographed form, and later, another student gives Diwali – the Indian festival of lights – expression through movement. These are two of 17 performance pieces in the 15th annual “WACSmash’D” showcase, an entirely student-run production put on by the World […]
Category Archives: Theater & Fine Arts
UCLA Game Lab dispels stereotypes through female representation
A common stereotype exists when it comes to “the gamer.”
“The angry middle schooler or high schooler in his basement who just plays video games all day and eats Cheetos and doesn’t have any social skills,” said Adeline Ducker, a UCLA Design | Media Arts alumna.
Second Take: Questions surround release of Harper Lee’s second novel
Make way Mary Higgins Clark, there’s a new queen of suspense in town and her name is Harper Lee. While 88-year-old Lee doesn’t write suspense-thriller mysteries, she still managed the plot twist of her career with the announcement of her second book release 55 years after her first, “To Kill a Mockingbird.” Before there were […]
Course gives students opportunity to design, install mural of LA
A young man bows to a woman, his height complementing her graceful posture as her skirt swings to the beat of salsa. Another pair joins them, moving delicately up the ramp of a bus filled with monarch butterflies. Others wait in line to enter the bus, frozen in mid-movement as the butterflies wrap around the […]
Balloon & Panel: Anime, manga encompass diverse genres
Comic books are everywhere – Marvel and DC Comics are mining decades of story lines for a huge slate of movies and television shows. But comics are more than a source to be mined for superhero blockbusters. New creators are dealing with issues every month in ways that couldn’t be done in other formats – […]
Author Judith Donath gives lecture on digital online portraits
Every action we make online is recorded. Whether it’s pictures on Facebook, purchase histories on Amazon or even the momentary flashes captured by Snapchat and Instagram, society is progressively spending more and more time inhabiting an ever-changing yet permanent digital landscape. This is the premise of author Judith Donath’s book “The Social Machine: Designs for […]
New magazine ‘The Paper Mixtape’ features LA art, culture and artists
While going through cycles and cycles of names for her new project, second-year art history student Morgan Cadigan played Iron and Wine’s “Our Endless Numbered Days” on a record player and felt a desire to get back to the roots of vinyl and analog. Instead of pure vinyl, Cadigan settled upon the idea of a […]