Don't Miss: Spring 2019
Guatemalan Masks: Selections from the Jim and Jeanne Pieper Collection
Guatemalan Masks: Selections from the Jim and Jeanne Pieper Collection features 80 masks depicting animals, folk personae, and historical figures that are deeply rooted in Guatemalan religiosity and popular culture. On April 6, the Fowler Museum at UCLA presents the exhibition’s opening program, featuring a curator lecture, exhibition preview, a Guatemalan marimba ensemble, and a traditional dance troupe.
Exhibition Dates: Apr. 7–Oct. 6
Venue: Fowler Museum
Gallery Hours: Wednesday: noon–8 p.m., Thursday–Sunday: noon–5 p.m.
Price: Free
Visiting Artist Lecture: Stan Douglas
Since 1990, the artist Stan Douglas’s films, videos, and photographs have appeared in exhibitions internationally, including four Venice Biennales and Documentas IX, X, and XI. A survey of recent work, Stan Douglas: Mise en scène, traveled throughout Europe from 2013 to 2015, and his play Helen Lawrence toured internationally until 2017. He was the 2016 recipient of the Hasselblad Prize, and since 2009 he has been a core faculty member in ArtCenter’s Graduate Art program in Pasadena.
Event Date: Thursday, Apr. 25, 7:30 p.m.
Venue: Hammer Museum, Billy Wilder Theater
Price: Free
Nico Muhly: Archives, Friends, Patterns
Nico Muhly is an American composer and sought-after collaborator whose influences range from American minimalism to the Anglican choral tradition. On May 10, Muhly presents a performance in three parts: first a collaboration with composer Thomas Bartlett, comprising a set of songs built around two-piano transcriptions of gamelan music; second, an archival project of gems from over 40 years of Philip Glass’s catalog; and finally, a cycle of his own drone-based compositions which he describes as “both severe and lyrical.”
Event Date: Friday, May 10, 8 p.m.
Venue: The Theatre at Ace Hotel
Price: $26–$56*
*UCLA Students: $15, UCLA Faculty & Staff $25
An Unreal Reality
The UCLA Department of Design Media Arts presents the An Unreal Reality, an exhibitionfeaturing new work from the 2019 graduating M.F.A. class. Works span the genres of interactive installation, performance, sculpture, software, sound, print, and video.
Exhibition Dates: May 16–30
Opening Reception: Thursday, May 16, 5 p.m.
Venue: Broad Art Center, New Wight Gallery
Gallery Hours: Monday–Friday, 10 a.m.–5 p.m.
Price: Free
Hammer Projects: Andrea Fraser
Hammer Projects: Andrea Fraser presents the work of Andrea Fraser, chair of the UCLA art department. Since the 1980s, Fraser has achieved renown for performances that interrogate social structures with humor and pathos, aligning herself with feminism and institutional critique. During the exhibition, “Andrea Fraser: Collected Interviews, 1990–2018,” a publication coedited by the art historian Rhea Anastas and the artist Alejandro Cesarco will be published by A.R.T. Press, and Fraser will premiere a new performance work in the Billy Wilder Theater.
Exhibition Dates: May 18–Sep. 15
Venue: Hammer Museum
Gallery Hours: Tuesday–Friday: 11 a.m.–8 p.m., Saturday-Sunday: 11 a.m.–5 p.m.
Price: Free
First Hand: In-progress Choreography from WAC/Dance Faculty
The UCLA Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance presents First Hand: In-progress Choreography from WAC/Dance Faculty featuring new work by faculty artists Kyle Abraham, Ros Warby, Jackie Lopez, and André Zachary.
Event Date: Jun. 6 & 7, 7 p.m.
Venue: Glorya Kaufman Hall, Dance Theater (Room 200)
Price: $6 General Admission
The UCLA Department of Architecture and Urban Design’s RUMBLE is an end-of-year exhibition between its two venues: Perloff Hall on the UCLA campus and the IDEAS campus in Culver City. The exhibition engages students, faculty, and the international design community with 20,000 square feet of studio and program installations, 240 projects on view, and 90 leading critics and practitioners.
Event Dates: Jun. 10 & 11, All Day
Venue: Perloff Hall
Price: Free
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