UCLA Arts Newsletter

December 20, 2022

Shoshi Watanabe enjoys the tangible nature of ceramics—the way clay can be molded into whatever shape you want it to be. His interest in ceramics brought him from Japan to UCLA, first as an undergraduate biology student, then as an MFA student in ceramics, and now as the art department’s ceramics lab supervisor.

Brenda G. Williams is a local art advisor and independent curator specializing in emerging contemporary artists, and is the assistant to the chair of the Department of Design Media Arts. Brenda is currently one of five Culver City Cultural Affairs Commissioners. For this installment of You See LA, she picked five things to see and do in Culver City.

Don't Miss:

Check out upcoming virtual programs from across our academic departments, museums, and performing arts presenters. Find a complete list of upcoming events on the UCLA Arts online calendar.

Dec: 15: The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music will host a The North American Premiere of the Opera Bas Sheve talk, discussing one of the only known pre-Holocaust Yiddish operas that was discovered in 2017 by Professor Diana Matut.		Dec: 15: As part of its MoMA Contenders 2022 series, The Hammer Museum invites you to its screening of Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio with an in-person introduction by director Guillermo del Toro.
Dec 16: The UCLA Film & Television Archive will be screening Ulysses' Gaze for its film screening series honoring the works of Greek writer-director Theo Angelopoulos.		Dec 17: The UCLA Film & Television Archive presents a screening of Water and Power and Freeways for its film screening series honoring the works of writer Joan Didion.
Dec 18: The UCLA Film & Television Archive welcomes you to its screening of The Travelling Players for its film screening series honoring the works of Greek writer-director Theo Angelopoulos.

In the News:   

The New York Times reflects on the career of UCLA Department of Art professor emeritus Lari Pittman, who has been a museum presence for decades and currently has work on view at this week’s Art Basel Miami Beach and at the Museo Jumex in Mexico City.		UCLA Design Media Arts alumnus and visiting lecturer Refik Anadol’s installation “Serpenti Metamorphosis,” was featured at the Saatchi Gallery in London to honor 75 years of the Italian jewelry house Bulgari. The exhibition incorporates 200 million images of the snake and its environment to represent “Serpenti past, present and prototypes for the future.”
The Hammer Museum announced its Bridget Riley Drawings: From the Artist’s Studio exhibition, the first and most extensive dedication to Riley’s drawings in over half a century. The exhibition is “on view at the Hammer from February 5 through May 28, 2023 and includes more than 90 sheets from Riley’s private collection.”		Dezeen School Shows highlights the current Department of Architecture and Urban Design projects of students and faculty. The project “presents a future where society has embraced a diet of cultured meat, and a new type of living infrastructure integrating energy, water, housing, agriculture and traffic systems.”
UCLA Design Media Arts professor Casey Reas’s digital art platform Feral File launched a new online exhibition “Peer to Peer” at the Buffalo AKG Art Museum. The exhibition included 13 contemporary artists and their works as the “first survey of blockchain art by an American museum.”		UCLA Department of Architecture and Urban Design adjunct professor Julia Koerner worked with American costume designer Ruth E. Carter in the 3-D printing of Queen Ramonda’s dress and crown in the Black Panther: Wakanda Forever movie. The crown and dress was 3-D printed to “reflect the fact that Wakandans are technologically advanced enough to create wearable art.”

Announcements: 

View Chancellor Block’s and Mrs. Block’s holiday greeting to the campus community
 

Berivan “Beri” Eisenhardt will join UCLA Arts as Executive Director, Development on January 17, 2023. Read the announcement.
 

There's still time to make your end-of-year gift to UCLA Arts! Your generosity allows us to continue to provide the highest level of arts education and contributes to our programs being ranked #1 in the US! As we prepare to welcome the year ahead, we want to thank you for supporting UCLA Arts in 2022 and encourage you to make a gift before Dec, 31!
 

UCLA will be closed for the 2022–23 Winter Holiday Closure from Dec. 23, 2022 through Jan. 2, 2023. Happy Holidays!
 

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