UCLA Arts Newsletter

April 23, 2019

‘What’s the big idea?’

This is the kind of thing a precocious child might say…or a diligent artist stepping back for a moment to assess a work…or, after a surprisingly wet winter and a busy quarter, the kind of question I imagine echoing throughout campus as we are reminded of larger imperatives.

The big idea has been very present for me of late.

READ DEAN STEELE'S SPRING MESSAGE

In the News


Catherine Opie and Two UCLA Arts Alumni Awarded 2019 Guggenheim Fellowships		Wu Tsang and the Search for Open-Ended Identity


BAR Architects Chosen for UCLA Nimoy Theater Renovation		Art Pioneer Judy Chicago Is the Feminist We All Need


Building Coachella’s Giant Art		Dance Performances Explore Relationship Between Performer, Audience

You See LA

5 Things to See and Do in LA this spring, handpicked by Design Media Arts Professor Willem Henri Lucas


Lobby and Gallery Bar @ The Millennium Biltmore Hotel		Central Branch of the Los Angeles Pubic Library


Hauser and Wirth		Rooftop Garden @ the Walt Disney Concert Hall


Little Tokyo Market Place

What changes when a creative work is presented in a new context? Can animation and digital modeling become choreography? How can a physical container shape our understanding of a seminal text? How does the experience of interdisciplinary collaboration affect what artists—and audiences get to carry with them after a performance?

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Don't Miss

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Guatemalan Masks: Selections from the Jim and Jeanne Pieper Collection		Visiting Artist Lecture: Stan Douglas


Nico Muhly: Archives, Friends, Patterns		An Unreal Reality


Hammer Projects: Andrea Fraser		First Hand: In-progress Choreography from WAC/Dance Faculty


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