With the series “arTistic Attention,” A&E will feature the very people whose office hours we really should go to more and explore their arts & entertainment-geared interests to find out what really makes them tick. If you know an artsy TA who deserves to be featured, email us at ae@media.ucla.edu. Shelina Brown named her new […]
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Belly dance workshop on campus offers exposure to art form
Her bangles, shimmering under the chandelier lights of Kerckhoff Grand Salon, accompanied the Arabic music like jingle bells. Her hips moved separately, as if disconnected from the rest of her body. Sometimes they hit every major and minor beat in the music. Other times, they ignored the rhythm completely, loosening up to trace the almost […]
Student shares passion for geography through travel photography
On a cold winter night in Fairbanks, Alaska, five UCLA students stood on top of a small hill, awaiting a glimpse of the Northern Lights. Freezing and convinced the lights would not make appearance that night, the students were ready to continue on with their trip when a strong wave came through and lit up […]
Trailer Talk: ‘Zootopia’
Movie trailers are like free samples at Costco: the good ones excite you and leave you wanting more, while the bad ones make you cringe. Each week, A&E columnist Matthew Fernandez will dissect one movie trailer and analyze the Hollywood fare to come. Disney has a penchant for zany characters and a magic power to […]
Music professor uses Irish flute to relive travels, revive traditions
Each week, Daily Bruin A&E will explore the instruments of the World Musical Instrument Collection and their performers that all contribute to the musical landscape of the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music. This week, we highlight the Irish flute. A single night in an Irish pub dismantled Timothy Taylor’s strict, decades-old approach to classical […]
Q&A: Alumnus discusses inspiration behind satirical posters around campus
Alumnus Nathan Guzik is weary of seeing people walking around campus glued to their phones and failing to take the time to digest their often peculiar surroundings. Guzik, who graduated from UCLA with a degree in history 2015, has posted 20 to 30 satirical posters at a time around campus since his senior year that […]
LACMA names two UCLA students as curatorial fellowship recipients
Fourth-year art history student Canan Cem turned a page of her Andean textiles textbook, leafing through the glossy photos of pre-Columbian mantles, shawls and tunics woven in bright reds, browns and eggshell blues. To her, the items were flat, two-dimensional – they belonged only to the collection of PowerPoint slides her professor presented in lecture. […]