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February 13, 9:44 pm

‘S.L.A.Y.’ art gallery celebrates women in the workplace

The word “slay” colloquially means to succeed at something amazing, but for UCLA national honor society Mortar Board, it’s an acronym for empowerment. “S.L.A.Y. – Strong Ladies Aiding You” is a multisensory gallery hosted by Mortar Board, running until Sunday in Kerckhoff Art Gallery. Read more...

Photo: The “S.L.A.Y – Strong Ladies Aiding You” panel also included an accompanying art gallery featuring images of historical female figures such as Sally Ride and Ruth Bader Ginsburg. The art exhibit will be open through Sunday. (Farida Saleh/Daily Bruin)

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February 9, 11:16 pm

Students to perform ‘Lips’ in fresh spin on ‘The Vagina Monologues’

This post was updated on Feb. 12 at 12:45 p.m. Vivi Le has written love letters to every crush she’s ever had. The letters detailed the deep color of her crushes’ eyes or the beauty of their smiles, compliments Le thought should never be left unsaid. Read more...

Photo: Eighteen women will be performing monologues in “Lips,” a production written, directed and performed by UCLA students and alumnae opening Friday in the Northwest Campus Auditorium. (Amy Dixon/Daily Bruin)

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February 3, 2:35 am

Wacsmash ‘Fingers’ performances tell unique stories through dance

Electronic dance music, Mexican female warriors, neurological phenomena, the ocean and consumerism find common ground in the Glorya Kaufman Dance Theater. Undergraduates of the UCLA Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance have been preparing since September for this year’s Wacsmash performance, titled “Fingers,” which will take place Friday and Saturday. Read more...

Photo: “Semele,” choreographed by Delilah Gamson Levy. (Dayoung Lee/Daily Bruin)

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January 31, 10:35 pm

Interactive exhibit utilizes art to heal, spur unity among students

A thick olive-green banner wrapped around the ceiling of the Kerckhoff Art Gallery. Dozens of overlapping black-paint handprints covered the banner almost completely. I wandered through the gallery “Hands in Solidarity in the Age of Trump” on its opening night Monday, and my eyes focused on the pieces of paper with hand-written messages stuck on the wall beneath the banner. Read more...

Photo: “Hands in Solidarity in the Age of Trump” at the Kerckhoff Art Gallery on Monday featured written messages from students on topics ranging from Planned Parenthood to President Trump himself. The event will continue through Friday. (Stella Huang/Daily Bruin)

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January 30, 9:33 pm

Q&A: Art alumnus talks exhibition inspired by MTV’s ‘Scream’

All of Phil Davis’ ideas flew out the window when Night Gallery invited him to put on a solo exhibition. It wasn’t until he came across the Instagram account for MTV’s TV show “Scream” that he had a clear idea for an art show – a high school murder mystery. Read more...

Photo: Art alumnus Phil Davis created the artwork for the exhibit “MTV2” by photographing and then creating paintings of his friends and actors as they read a script he wrote based on a high school murder mystery. One example is “Promotional Photo (Group)” seen here. (Courtesy of Phil Davis)

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January 27, 4:25 pm

Hammer Museum releases details of expansion plan

The Hammer Museum announced details of its upcoming expansion, which will increase exhibition space 60 percent by 2020, in a press release Thursday. The proposed renovations, spearheaded by architect Michael Maltzan, began in September 2016 with remodeling the museum’s third floor galleries. Read more...

Photo: The Hammer Museum began renovations in September 2016 after UCLA’s $92.5 million purchase in 2015 allowed the museum to grow into five floors of a Wilshire Boulevard building. (Daily Bruin file photo)

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January 26, 11:13 pm

UCLA students join New York performers in ‘Lost in the Stars’

The curtain will open on a train filled with South Africans traveling to Johannesburg during apartheid. The instrumental music will go silent and the characters will begin to segregate on stage, singing, “White man go to Johannesburg, he come back, he come back / Black man go to Johannesburg, never come back, never come back.” New York-based theater group SITI Company will be performing Kurt Weill’s 1949 musical “Lost in the Stars” at Royce Hall on Saturday and Sunday, featuring a chorus including several UCLA students and alumni. Read more...

Photo: The musical “Lost in the Stars” by Kurt Weill, set in South Africa during apartheid, raises contemporary issues of race relations and inequality. (Sihui Song/Daily Bruin)


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