A wooden sculpture depicts a woman kneeling and holding a seat. She wears blue glass beads around her neck, and a contemplative gaze crosses her elegant features as she looks inward with downcast eyes. Read more...

Photo: UCLA professor Mary Roberts helped organize “Shaping Power,” a LACMA exhibition featuring art from the Luba Kingdom of Central Africa.

American artist and furniture maker Richard Artschwager wanted to make something useless, so he created a sculpture. “He didn’t mean ‘useless’ as in having no meaning or significance, but rather as in not having a practical function,” said Anne Ellegood, senior curator at the UCLA Hammer Museum. Read more...

Photo: The work of Richard Artschwager spanned more than six decades and several styles, including the minimalism, pop and conceptual art movements. Artschwager’s work will be on display in the retrospective exhibition “Richard Artschwager!” at the UCLA Hammer Museum until Sept. 1.

Against the backdrop of a national IRS scandal, NSA wiretapping charges and the general absurdity of politics, “Yes, Prime Minister” could not have come at a better time. Read more...

Traditional plays give actress Kelly Lester two hours to find her character’s arc. “Ionescopade” gives her a couple of minutes. UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television alumna Lester has to utilize all of her acquired performing talents in the Odyssey Theatre’s production of “Ionescopade,” a musical revue created as a tribute to the playwright Eugéne Ionesco, one of the foremost figures of the theater of the absurd. Read more...

Photo: Kelly Lester, UCLA Theater, Film and Television alumna and actress, performs in the Odyssey Theatre’s production of “Ionescopade.”

Post World War II, Spain is still under the fascist dictatorship of Francisco Franco. And apparently everyone’s speaking Shakespearen English as well. Read more...

Photo: Fourth-year theater student Phoebe Singer and third-year international development studies student Benjamin Siegel appear in Shakespeare at UCLA’s production “The Winter’s Tale,” a five-act tragicomedy.

A group of college students dressed in farm animal costumes prances around the stage of Kerckhoff Grand Salon. The image may strike the casual observer as odd, but for the members of Random Voices, the gimmick pays tribute to the memories and inside jokes shared within the group over the school year. Read more...

Photo: UCLA’s all-female a cappella group Random Voices will feature in its annual Spring Concert a promotion of its sixth studio album, “Lot 7,” the group’s first album since 2009. The concert’s theme is “Old McGowan Had a Farm.”