Sixteen graduating master of fine arts students will transform the blank white walls and open spaces of the New Wight Gallery at the Broad Art Center with pieces ranging from photography, to drawings, to static objects and models. Split into four separate showcases featuring four artists at a time, the MFA Exhibition series will open […]
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Art Exhibit Review: ‘Charles Gaines: Gridwork 1974-1989’
“Charles Gaines: Gridwork 1974-1989” Charles Gaines UCLA Hammer Museum 4.0 paws From a distance, mounted frames appear to contain simple sketches of walnut trees. However, upon closer inspection, the shapes of the limbs and branches reveal themselves to be comprised of tiny hand-written numbers filling the blocks of a grid. On view at the UCLA […]
Graduate student exhibits virtual reality project ‘Isla Lacerta’
In the world of “Isla Lacerta,” lizards can data mine and explorers can journey through caves. Design | Media Arts graduate student Theo Triantafyllidis’ solo exhibition, “Isla Lacerta” will be on display Tuesday and Wednesday in the Experimental Digital Arts room of Broad Art Center. This solo exhibition, incorporating artwork and a virtual reality, is […]
Urban Confections: SnowLA Shavery provides a flurry of sweet SoCal snow
Los Angeles is home to numerous dessert shops that feature a range of treats from cupcakes to doughnuts to shakes. Urban Confections will select dessert restaurants whose only West Coast location is Los Angeles, highlighting students’ opportunities to taste the city’s distinctive flavors. Follow columnist Lindsay Weinberg around Los Angeles as she samples local confections […]
arTistic Attention: TA Alessandra Williams brings dance experience to teaching
World arts and culture/dance professor David Delgado Shorter said that throughout his time as an adviser, he’s often encountered graduate students who aren’t firm with their goals and expectations – he never had that problem with Alessandra Williams.
Album review: ‘Archive Series Volume No. 1’
“Archive Series Volume No. 1” Iron & Wine Black Cricket Recording Co. 4 paws Sam Beam, also known as Iron & Wine, is an enigma. The South Carolinian singer was once a cinematography professor at the University of Miami who decided not to pursue a career in music. A man with a beard so large […]
Hammer Museum’s reading discussion series pays tribute to Alice Munro
In the mid 1970s, Alice Munro’s short stories had to travel more than 200 miles across Ontario from rural Wingham to Toronto to get published. But for Mona Simpson – a UC Berkeley undergraduate at the time – the stories weren’t traveling far enough. “I’ve been reading Alice Munro since college,” said Simpson, award-winning novelist […]