Hammer Museum installation delivers vibrant, sensory experience

Visitors can witness a new Hammer Museum installation before they even enter the galleries. “Up Close in Distance,” designed by Yunhee Min, will be on display in the Hammer until Oct. 27. With a design involving pools of paint in differing colors, it is the museum’s first project to be incorporated primarily into the lobby’s […]

Student’s art examines nexus of 3D graphics, surveillance technology and identity

Hirad Sab used ten-dollar hardware to holographically render faces on a gallery wall. With artistic endeavors informed by his background in coding and programming, Sab said he favors digital applications like Blender, an open-source 3D modeling software, over the typical paint palette. His solo exhibition, which opened Tuesday and ends Thursday, features his most recent […]

Alum transitions from pro athlete to full-time artist with new painting collection

Alumnus Brian Poli-Dixon spent his UCLA career balancing collegiate football and art. Poli-Dixon’s current collection of paintings, titled “Genius,” was unveiled April 14 at the Artworld Fine Art gallery. Poli-Dixon said painting has always been present in his life, even though a large part of it was spent playing for the UCLA football team and […]

Documentary analyzes director’s complex family dynamics with unique flashback style

“Running Aground” navigates the choppy waters of the tense relationships within the director’s family. Graduate directing student Jake O’Hare was inspired to create a documentary reenacting his changing family dynamics after learning about the sailing trips his father Scott, his aunt Sharon, his uncle Craig and his father’s alcoholic stepfather embarked on in the 1970s. […]

Gymnastics finishes season in third place at NCAA championships behind Oklahoma, LSU

This post was updated April 20 at 7:18 p.m. FORT WORTH, Texas — Valorie Kondos Field couldn’t hold back tears. In the final meet of the coach’s career, No. 2 UCLA gymnastics (9-1) took third in the NCAA championship Saturday. UCLA, which scored 197.5375, fell to No. 1 Oklahoma (10-0) and No. 3 LSU (8-3) […]

Professor’s podcast unmasks science behind superheroes and sci-fi

Thanos had to break a few laws of nature before he eradicated half of the universe with a snap. Topics similar to the Marvel villain’s defiance of physics are addressed in “The Biology of Superheroes Podcast,” hosted by Shane Campbell-Staton, a UCLA ecology and evolutionary biology assistant professor. What originally began as a two-week course […]

Campus Queries: What causes the different tastes in types of drinking water?

This post was updated April 19 at 12:50 p.m. Campus Queries is a series in which Daily Bruin readers and staff present science-related questions for UCLA professors and experts to answer. Q: What makes drinking water taste different? A: Drinking water’s taste differs for many reasons, such as varying levels of pH, mineral content and […]