UCLA alumna Janice Mirikitani describes the dust as something that connects people. Read more...
Photo: UCLA alumna Janice Mirikitani will be sharing poetry from her fifth book, “Out of the Dust,” in Public Affairs 4240 today. (Courtesy of Dori Caminong)
Christian Gimber's interactive installation is an orchestration of computer programming and physical sensors that give people a chance to try juggling a ball in the middle of a room that doesn't exist. Read more...
Photo: The UCLA Design | Media Arts undergraduate showcase will run through Jan. 29 at the New Wight Gallery in the Broad Art Center. (Daniel Alcazar/Daily Bruin)
Comic books are everywhere – Marvel and DC Comics are mining decades of story lines for a huge slate of movies and television shows. But comics are more than a source to be mined for superhero blockbusters. Read more...
Photo: Image Comics recently introduced its newest comics, such as “8House,” a fantasy series featuring a rotating group of artists and writers. (Courtesy of Emma Rios and Hwei Lim/Image Comics)
A mobile of suspended disc-shaped meteorites gently sways above various forms and figures. Akin to the cosmos that hover above them, these figures, both human and non-human alike, too remain suspended within the passage of time. Read more...
Photo: (Courtesy of Brian Forrest)
“Come on, either you think I did it or you don’t … People come expecting a monster, and when they don’t find that, they come expecting a victim … And the reality of it is, I’m just a normal person.” These are the words of Adnan Syed in the penultimate episode of “Serial,” the highly engrossing podcast series that excavates a first-degree murder case from 1999. Read more...
Photo: “Serial,” a podcast hosted by Sarah Koenig, follows the 1999 first-degree murder case of Hae Min Lee throughout its 12 episodes. (Serial)
Cycling, plates spinning on sticks and bicycles floating in midair all have one thing in common: balance. The Fowler Museum’s “Up in the Air” event features the “World Share: Installations by Pascale Marthine Tayou” and “Round Trip: Bicycling Asia Minor, 1891” exhibitions as well as an interactive performance by juggler John Whitfield on Sunday at 1 p.m. Read more...
Photo: “Family Jam: Up in the Air” features a juggling performance by John Whitfield with two current Fowler exhibitions, “World Share: Installations by Pascale Marthine Tayou” and “Round Trip: Bicycling Asia Minor, 1891” (above). Fowler Director of Education and Curatorial Affairs Betsy Quick said she hopes the exhibit will get people to think about the notion of balance. (Kailey Rishovd/Daily Bruin)
Through a former teacher’s artwork, a slice of UCLA history has resurfaced in Westwood. Originally on view at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, an exhibit of the artistic works of Robert Heinecken has come to UCLA’s Hammer Museum. Read more...
Photo: Eva Respini, the curator of “Robert Heinecken: Object Matter,” said the exhibit reflects Heinecken’s views on American culture and his legacy in Los Angeles. Heineken’s different mediums of photography (above) such as traditional black and white photographs and photolithography, will be showcased in the exhibit. (Maryrose Kulick/Daily Bruin)
