UCLA Arts Newsletter
Dancing is often looked upon as a kind of aesthetic athleticism: beautiful bodies doing amazing things; a taste of the sublime. Whereas in the Renaissance when sculpted perfection was the composite of the best features of all the human subjects accessible to the artist, today’s dancers, like our athletes, are—in themselves—the closest we will come to perfection. Michelangelo’s David never was a real person. He, (like Barbie) was the sculptor’s imagined ideal. Today we mostly look for beauty and remarkability amongst the real, living, dancers, models, athletes, actors, etc. that populate stages, film, and photography. There is something affirming about viewing the best humanity has to offer. There is also something troubling. Actually, a few things are troubling.
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| Review: Cellist Maya Beiser and dancer Wendy Whelan in a 9/11 work like no other |
New York City's latest exhibition space in located underground |
Georgina Huljich is an adjunct assistant professor in the UCLA Department of Architecture and Urban Design and an alumni of the M.Arch.I program, having graduated with distinction in 2003. She has been a Visiting Professor at Yale, UPenn; UC Berkeley, TIT in Tokyo and Di Tella University in Buenos Aires. Georgina has been a member of the board for CAP UCLA since 2015 and has served on National Juries for the Rome Prize and AIA Awards. She is the recipient of many awards, the most notable being the prestigious US Artists Fellowship in 2013; an endowment that recognizes America’s most accomplished and innovative artists. Georgina is director of P-A-T-T-E-R-N-S, together with Marcelo Spina.
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| 10 Questions: Centennial Edition | Lari Pittman: Declaration of Independence | |
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Through Positive Eyes |
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| Stealth Drones | Some Ways to Continue? |
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| Frank Bruni in Conversation With Sarah Smarsh | Department of Art Graduate Open Studios |
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