Sunday, May 3

Arts

Arts, Theater & Fine Arts

|

October 14, 12:04 am

LACMA director to speak at Design | Media Arts lecture series

If you’re an artist, you need a day job. That’s what Michael Govan attributed as his entrance into the museum world. The current director of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art was trained to be an artist and worked in graphic design and architecture for his college museum, the Williams College Museum of Art. Read more...

Photo: Michael Govan, CEO and director of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, will be the opening lecturer for the 2014-15 Design | Media Arts lecture series Tuesday night. (Courtesy of Catherine Opie)

Arts, Music

|

October 14, 12:00 am

UCLA alum starts kids’ dance, music company Backseat Beats

In her freshman year of high school, Shadi Amirieh volunteered for a nonprofit organization, the Friendship Circle, where she mentored and guided children with autism. Inspired by her experience, she wanted to start a company so that parents and their kids could enjoy themselves while improving the children’s motor skills and development, the UCLA alumna said. Read more...

Photo: UCLA alumna Shadi Amirieh founded Backseat Beats, which is a dance, fitness and music company in Los Angeles geared toward young children and babies. (Miriam Bribiesca/Daily Bruin)

Arts, Music

|

October 14, 12:00 am

Album Review: ‘Hungry Ghosts’

Remember that big 64-pack of crayons back in kindergarten? With so many choices in hand, it was always tempting to keep adding color after color and layer after layer of vibrant wax onto the page. Read more...

Photo: (Paracadute)

Arts, Film & TV

|

October 13, 3:19 am

Q&A: Faculty member’s film ‘Bitter Honey’ explores polygamy in Indonesia

With his experience as an anthropologist guiding him through the process, UCLA anthropology assistant adjunct professor Robert Lemelson set out to record seven years in the lives of three polygamous families in present-day Bali, Indonesia in his documentary, “Bitter Honey.” Lemelson said after the regime of the second president of Indonesia, Suharto – which lasted from 1967 to 1998 – fell, the country was shook with a wave of sexual violence, he added. Read more...

Photo: Robert Lemelson, a UCLA anthropology assistant adjunct professor, is the director of the documentary “Bitter Honey,” which follows polygamous relationships in Bali, Indonesia. These relationships involve husbands with many wives and are often plagued by violence and infidelity. (Courtesy of Robert Lemelson)

Arts, Arts Columns, Music

|

October 13, 3:19 am

Across the Pond: Trip-hop innovator Massive Attack brings cultural flavors of Bristol

There’s something about the British Isles that consistently produces musical greatness; it is inherent to the country, its people and its culture. Popular culture has been defined by bands and artists from the UK; they have consistently created new genres and musical subcultures – from the Beatles’ psychedelic rock in the ’60s all the way through to the explosion of dubstep and drum ‘n’ bass in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Read more...

Photo: British band Massive Attack pioneered the trip-hop genre with its 1991 album “Blue Lines.” (Virgin Records)

Arts, Film & TV

|

October 10, 12:30 am

Movie Review: ‘Mudbloods’

A girl is tackled to the ground by a player twice her size. Broom in hand, she gets up, dives for a volleyball and sends it through a hoop, scoring 10 points while narrowly avoiding a wayward dodgeball. Read more...

Photo: UCLA TFT alumnus Farzad Sangari will premiere his documentary about the UCLA Quidditch team. (Courtesy of BOND/360)


1 … 820 821 822 823 824 … 2,483

Content copyright © 2026 the Daily Bruin