Liz Li is chopping up traditional art media. The fourth-year design media arts student creates art through various media including zines, posters, graphics and mock-ups of imaginary candy brands. Read more...
Photo: The zine “Chop Suey,” a piece made by fourth-year design media arts student Liz Li, is held open to display its contents. In addition to zine-style pieces, the multimedia creations of Li include posters, sketches, prints and digital works. (Courtesy of Liz Li)
More than 30 years of work and five years of curatorial planning have culminated in “Victor Estrada: Purple Mexican.” Curator Marco Rios said he wanted to organize a survey show of artist and lecturer of painting Victor Estrada’s work since he first met Estrada more than five years ago. Read more...
Photo: Dressed in a blue shirt, Victor Estrada, a lecturer of painting at the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture sits in a chair outside. Works from Estrada spanning his over 30 year career, are on display in the exhibition, “Victor Estrada: Purple Mexican” which opened Oct. 6 at the ArtCenter College of Design’s Peter and Merle Mullin Gallery. (Courtesy of Juan Posada/ArtCenter College of Design)
This post was updated Oct. 12 at 3:21 p.m. The Jellicle cats have lived nine lives too many. Based on T.S. Eliot’s poetry collection, “Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats,” the feline gang of “Cats” will take refuge at the Hollywood Pantages Theatre through Oct. Read more...
Photo: The national tour cast of “Cats” perform on a blue-hued illuminated stage. Based on T.S. Eliot’s “Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats,” the musical will perform at the Hollywood Pantages Theatre through Oct. 16. (Courtesy of Matthew Murphy)
Eva Stoneburner is kindling a sense of community through pottery. During her final year at UCLA, the alumnus established the brand Spiral Sundries to sell her ceramics. Read more...
Photo: Eva Stoneburner smiles surrounded by ceramics. The alumnus started her business, Spiral Sundries Ceramics, to follow her lifelong artistic passion. (Courtesy of Eva Stoneburner)
Antonio Lysy is translating Bach’s musical phrases to unconventional stages. On Sept. 23 in the Franklin D. Murphy Sculpture Garden, the cello professor and string area chair will perform Johann Sebastian Bach’s six cello suites inside artist Richard Serra’s sculpture, “Torqued Ellipse,” in an event titled “Bach In the Serra.” Lysy said the main inspiration for playing the suites, an ordered set of classical works, in “Torqued Ellipse” was to experiment with the unique acoustics in the enclosed space the sculpture offers. Read more...
Photo: Cello professor and string area chair, Antonio Lysy plays the cello surrounded by lit candles. Lysy will play suites from Bach during the “Bach in the Serra” concert at 7pm on Friday. (Courtesy of the Herb Alpert School of Music)
This post was updated Sept. 25 at 9:03 p.m. As she once did in 1995, Alanis Morissette has audiences falling head over heels for “Jagged Little Pill.” The jukebox musical, composed of the ’90s icon’s album of the same name, is running at the Hollywood Pantages Theatre until Oct. Read more...
Photo: Heidi Blickenstaff (middle), reprising her role as Mary Jane Healy in the national tour of “Jagged Little Pill,” sits on a couch. The show will run until Oct. 2 at the Hollywood Pantages Theatre. (Courtesy of Matthew Murphy)
As artistic and scientific practices merge, so can human explorations of outer space and the deep sea. Dedicated to the synthesis of art and science, the UCLA Art|Sci Center will host “[Alien] Star Dust meets Plankton,” an interactive event at UCLA on Sept. Read more...
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