UCLA Arts

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UCLA Arts in the News

World Arts and Cultures graduate student, CedarBough Saeji, and her exhibition, “Dance Photography 2008 & 2009,” were featured in the Daily Bruin:
Dance photography exhibition showcases world arts and cultures department (11/5/09)

UCLA Live’s “Once and For All We’re Gonna Tell You Who We Are So Shut Up and Listen” received a great review from the Los Angeles Times:
Once and For All We're Gonna Tell You Who We Are So Shut Up and Listen' at Freud Playhouse (11/4/09)

The Daily Bruin reviewed the MFA 2010 Exhibition:
MFA 2010 Exhibition displays works of graduates at New Wight Gallery (11/3/09)

Architecture and Urban Design Distinguished Professor Thom Mayne’s appointment to the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities was covered by multiple new sources, including:
Abitare (11/3/09)
The New York Times (11/2/09)
The Los Angeles Times (11/2/09)
POLITICO.com (11/2/09)

Hammer Museum’s R. Crumb exhibition is featured in the Los Angeles Times’ art reviews:
Art reviews: R. Crumb @ UCLA Hammer, 'India's Comics' @ LACMA (11/01/09)

The Los Angeles Times reviewed UCLA Live’s “Purgatorio”:
Theater review: 'Purgatorio' at Freud Playhouse (10/30/09)

Design Media | Arts Halloween Show featured in the Daily Bruin:
Halloween Magic-Lantern Show displays lost art of film production at Broad Art Center (10/29/09)

UCLA Philharmonia concert announced in the Daily Bruin:
UCLA Philharmonia set to perform Mozart and Mahler (10/28/09)

Design Media | Arts Professor Casey Reas interviewed for UCLA Magazine:
Hit Forward: the Internet’s Next 40 Years (10/29/09)

UCLA Arts Wear

UCLA Arts spirit merchandise is now available in the LuValle store on campus. Items include pens, key chains, canvas bags, coffee mugs, hoodies, caps and T-shirts in a variety of colors and sizes.

Admissions

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	Design \| Media Arts
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	Music
	World Arts and Cultures

Announcements

UCLA cityLAB completed its WPA 2.0: Working Public Architecture competition today with the announcement of Carbon T.A.P.// Tunnel Algae Park, R_Ignite and Aquaculture Canal_New Orleans as the winning proposals.

Architecture and Urban Design Distinguished Professor Thom Mayne has been appointed to President Obama’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities.

Two Music Department graduates, Monica Covitt (BA ’09) and Penelope Turgeon (DMA ’09), were selected as fall 2009 interns at the John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts.

Building on an 18-year career at UCLA, Guy Custis has taken on senior management responsibilities for the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture (UCLA Arts) as the new Assistant Dean for Administration.

Henry T. Hopkins: art department chair, Hammer director
Henry T. Hopkins, a prominent leader in the arts who at various times led the Hammer Museum and the San Francisco Museum of Art — which was renamed the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art during his stewardship — has died. He was 81.

UCLA's cityLAB has announced the finalists for "WPA 2.0: Working Public Architecture," the urban think tank's open competition seeking innovative, implementable proposals that place infrastructure at the heart of rebuilding American cities during this next era of metropolitan recovery. Finalists' projects will be featured at a November exhibition in Washington, D.C.

Architecture and Urban Design Professor and former Chair Sylvia Lavin received the AIA Los Angeles Excellence in Education Award.

Michael Silvers, a doctoral student in Ethnomusicology in the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, was awarded a Fulbright-mtvU Fellowship to study the relationship between the culture of forró, a kind of popular dance music, and the climate of northeastern Brazil. >>link

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This Week's Events

MFA Upstarts: “Vestiges of Creation,” Michael Sakamoto
Friday–Saturday,
Nov. 20-21, 8 pm
Glorya Kaufman Dance Theater; $15; $8 students

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