Don't Miss: UCLA Spring 2016
Nine UCLA Arts spring events that you don't want to miss
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Art of the Austronesians: The Legacy of Indo-Pacific Voyaging
Malagan Display Mask, Papua New Guinea. Collection of Valerie Franklin.
Through Aug. 28
Museum Hours: Wednesday & Friday–Sunday, noon–5 p.m.; Thursday, noon–8 p.m.
Fowler Museum
Price: Free
The expansive exhibition explores the history and development of the arts and cultures of the Austronesian-speaking peoples—from their prehistoric origins in what is now Taiwan, to their successive seafaring migrations over millennia throughout the Philippines, Indonesia, the Pacific, and beyond.
Tigran Hamasyan: Luys i Luso feat. Members of the Yerevan State Chamber Choir
Credit: Vahram Muradyan
Saturday, Apr. 30
8 p.m.
Royce Hall
Price: $19-$59, UCLA Students $15, UCLA Faculty and Staff $25
Classical and jazz pianist Tigran Hamasyan's new undertaking is a fresh and appealingly youthful representation of Armenian sacred music from the 5th to 19th centuries, interpreted through a modern lens.
George Szekely: Play and Creativity in the Art of Teaching
Detail of the cover of George Szekely’s book, Play and Creativity in Art Teaching, Routledge (March 19, 2015).
Tuesday, May 3
7 p.m.
Schoenberg Music Building, Jan Popper Theater
Price: Free
Nationally known art educator George Szekely will discuss and model how all teachers can help children find art in familiar materials and ordinary places that are accessible to everyone. Presented by the Visual and Performing Arts Education Program (VAPAE).
Anne Niemetz
Anne Niemetz, Drone Sweet Drone
Lecture:
Tuesday, May 3
6 p.m.
Broad Art Center, EDA (Room 1250)
Price: Free
Exhibition:
Thursday, May 5
5 p.m.
CNSI, 5th Floor, UCLA Art|Sci Gallery
Price: Free
This May, Anne Niemetz ’07, M.F.A., Design Media Arts,—a media artist and designer working in the fields of wearable technology, interactive installation, and audio-visual design—will present a lecture and exhibition at UCLA. Fascinated by the convergence of art, science, design, and technology, she pursues collaborative and cross-disciplinary projects. Her exhibition, Drone Sweet Drone, is an installation of an embroidered drone swarm using Arduino technology. By fusing the traditional with the technologically advanced, Drone Sweet Drone, asks us to consider the ordinary and extraordinary ways that drones affect our everyday lives. Presented by UCLA Art | Sci.
Department of Art Lecture: Rodney McMillian
Rodney McMillian; Untitled, 2005; Single channel video on DVD; 3 min. 41 sec.; Ed. of 5 + 1 AP; Gallery Inventory #MCR142; Courtesy of the artist and Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects.
Thursday, May 12
7:30 p.m.
Hammer Museum
Price: Free
UCLA Department of Art Associate Professor Rodney McMillian’s multimedia artistic practice emphasizes his “talent for setting up uncanny relationships among undistinguished objects” (Art in America). His installations and live performances reflect an overarching concern with the relationships between language, aesthetics, and content. McMillian has solo exhibitions on view now at the Studio Museum in Harlem, NY; the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia; and MOMA PS1, New York.
Buy One Get One Free: The Dance-Body Package for the Indian Film/Television Industry
Image Credit: Devdas, 2002, a Sanjay Leela Bhansali film
Thursday, May 19
1 p.m.
Glorya Kaufman Hall, Dance Theater
Price: Free
Professor Urmimala Sarkar, JNU School of Art and Aesthetics, New Delhi, India, lectures on the commodification of the female body in Bollywood film and Indian reality TV shows. Presented by the UCLA Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance; co-sponsored by the Center for India and South Asia.
Department of Art Graduate Open Studios
Saturday, May. 21
4–7 p.m.
Graduate Art Studios, 8535 Warner Dr, Culver City, CA 90232
Price: Free
The UCLA Art graduate students' studios in Culver City will be open to the general public. Visitors can meet the students and see their work in progress in a studio setting.
RUMBLE
Jun. 6–10
Hours TBA
Perloff Hall/IDEAS
Price: Free
The Department of Architecture and Urban Design presents an end-of-year exposition between the Westwood and IDEAS campuses that engages students, faculty, and the international design community in a discourse on the forefront of contemporary design and innovation. With 20,000 square feet of studio and program installations, 250 projects on view, and 90 leading critics and practitioners, RUMBLE examines the opportunities and issues that the next generation of architects will face.
Made In L.A.: a, the, though, only
Jun. 12–Aug. 28
Museum Hours: Tuesday–Friday: 11 a.m.–8 p.m.; Saturday–Sunday, 11 a.m.–5 p.m.
Hammer Museum
Price: Free
As part of an ongoing series, Made in L.A. 2016: a, the, though, only addresses Los Angeles as a center of activity inseparable from the global network of art production and reveals how artists move fluidly between contexts and respond to their local conditions. Subtitled by the minimalist poet and writer Aram Saroyan as his contribution to the exhibition, Made in L.A. 2016: a, the, though, only extends into such disciplines as dance, fashion, literature, music, film, and performance.
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