Thursday, May 7

Game Art Festival features experimental video games, art, components

The Game Lab is a single room in the Broad Art Center littered with half-finished game components, lined with computer monitors and occupied by a select handful of dedicated game developers at any one time. A lot of magic happens in this room. Read more...

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Game Lab director and professor Eddo Stern was responsible for curating the Game Art Festival opening at the Hammer Museum tonight. The two-day festival will feature video games and game art, as well as video game components.





Spring Sing 2012 Winners

On Friday, roughly 7,000 UCLA students crowded into the Los Angeles Tennis Center for UCLA's annual Spring Sing. Read more...

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Alto performing at Spring Sing 2012.


MFA students’ solo projects culminate in final exhibition

The Master of Fine Arts Exhibition #4 is the final show in a series that allows MFA candidates to display their works in a museum-style setting. Read more...

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Courtesy of Becky Kolsrud
The Master of Fine Arts Exhibition #4, the final show in the series, allows MFA candidates to display their works in a museum-style setting. The exhibition runs through Friday, and will feature art such as the above, which is from second-year MFA art student Becky Kolsrud.


MTV Movie Awards expand with new categories

Hollywood award season may technically have ended a few months ago with the Academy Awards, but the 2012 MTV Movie Awards will recognize one more set of winners in less traditional categories. Read more...

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Courtesy of Murray Close/the associated press and LIONSGATE

Jennifer Lawrence plays Katniss Everdeen, left, and Liam Hemsworth plays Gale Hawthorne in a scene from “The Hunger Games,” which was nominated for eight MTV Movie Awards.