Don't Miss: Winter 2020
Seven UCLA Arts events you won't want to miss this winter.
Department of Art Visiting Lecture Series: Suné Woods
Jan. 16, 7:30 p.m.,
Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer Museum
Suné Woods is an artist living in Los Angeles. Her work takes the form of video installations, photographs, and collage. She has participated in residencies at Headlands Center of the Arts, Vermont Studio Center, The Center for Photography at Woodstock, and Light Work. Woods is a recipient of the Visions from the New California initiative, The John Gutmann Fellowship Award, and The Baum Award for an Emerging American Photographer. Her work was exhibited in Made in L.A. 2018 curated by Anne Ellegood and Erin Christovale at the Hammer Museum.
UC Regents’ Lecture: Masaki Fujihata
Jan. 21, 6 p.m.
Broad Art Center, EDA (Room 1250)
Masaki Fujihata is one of the pioneers of Japanese new media art, beginning his career working in video and digital imaging in the early 80s. In January, the UCLA Department of Design Media Arts will present a public UC Regents’ lecture by Fujihata at the Broad Art Center.
Jan. 31 & Feb. 1
Glorya Kaufman Hall, Room 200
Wacsmash is an interdisciplinary showcase put on by undergraduate students in the WAC/Dance department. This year’s show, Systems and Self, will incorporate dance and a non-performative art exhibition. Thank you to our sponsors the Campus Programs Commission and the Undergraduate Students Association / Board of Directors Programming Fund.
Paul McCarthy, Aram Moshayedi, & Connie Butler in Conversation
Feb. 2, 2 p.m.
Hammer Museum
UCLA Department of Art Professor Emeritus Paul McCarthy joins Hammer curator Aram Moshayedi and chief curator Connie Butler, who co-organized the artist’s exhibition of drawings at the Hammer, to discuss his wide-ranging practice. The exhibition Paul McCarthy: Head Space, Drawings 1963–2019 is on view February 2–May 10, 2020.
Four Quartets: Pam Tanowitz/Brice Marden/Kaija Saariaho
Feb. 15 & 16, 8 p.m.
Royce Hall
Four Quartets, T. S. Eliot’s mysterious and beautiful masterpiece, is a rumination on time and timelessness and is now prized as one of the 20th century’s most stunning literary achievements. Seventy-five years after its publication, American choreographer Pam Tanowitz, legendary Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho, and American modernist painter Brice Marden have created a vast and thrilling performance from Eliot’s meditations on past and present, time and space, movement and stillness.
Symposium: LAnd. The Future of Land Value in LA
Feb. 29, 4–7:30 p.m.
UCLA IDEAS Campus, Culver City
The IDEAS Event Series looks beyond architecture’s traditional boundaries to explore emerging trends in Los Angeles’ most creative industries including entertainment, mobility, technology, and urban strategy. As an opportunity for interdisciplinary exchange, prominent academics and industry leaders present cutting-edge research and engage in meaningful discussions about the future of their fields and the roles they play in the evolution of architecture and the urban environment.
Art and Religion in the City of Angels: A Walking Tour with Patrick Polk and Amy Landau
Mar. 7, 12–3 p.m.
Vermont Ave near Los Feliz. Address to be provided
Tour important Los Angeles sacred sites along the Vermont Avenue corridor with the Fowler Museum’s Patrick A. Polk, curator of Latin American and Caribbean Popular Arts, and Amy Landau, director of education and interpretation. Vermont Avenue traverses the El Salvador Community Corridor, Historic Filipino Town, Korea Town, Little Armenia, Little Bangladesh, and Thai Town, offering rich opportunities to discover the city’s layered religious and cultural histories.
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