“Wolfgang Tillmans”
UCLA Hammer Museum
Open until Jan. 7
(Out of 5)
Objects like socks and houses may not be the first things one
thinks about when it comes to art, but under Wolfgang
Tillmans’ watchful camera lens, these everyday materials
become something more transcendent.

“Sixteen Tons”
Broad Art Center,
New Wight Art Gallery
Open through Oct. 26
With its breadth of variety and experience, the “Sixteen
Tons” exhibit is seemingly perfect for the newly inaugurated
Broad Art Center.

The fast-paced mode of urban life takes to the stage in a
complex modern dance production of undulating bodies, gritty beats
and powerful imagery that pierces more than just the skin.

For many, Shakespeare connotes a daunting, confusing dive into
humanity’s deep-seated emotions and desires. But an upcoming
student-run production of “Macbeth” will interpret such
connotations quite unconventionally.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple, Oscar Wilde informs
us in “The Importance of Being Earnest.” Modern life
would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a
complete impossibility.

Most fine arts students dread completing the thesis that is
required for graduation. But Amir Fallah, a graduate art student,
saw it as an opportunity for him to further refine his unique
approach to bridging the gap between fine art and graphic
design.

Some say a picture is worth a thousand words, but to the UCLA
art department, it’s worth more than that.
With a pool of drawings and eager art supporters, the luck will
literally be in the draw and the drawing.

As the dancers twirl for their native land, the audience at UCLA
is transported to a traditional world of vibrant color, passionate
movement and fluttering sounds of a guitar.

Like the mind-altering combination of characters and the
resulting allure of perverse normality should, Eric
Bogosian’s new novel leaves you satisfied and wanting
more.
The playwright will read from his newest novel, “Wasted
Beauty,” at the UCLA Hammer Museum as part of its Readings
series on May 15 at 5 p.m.

An oddly genuine comedy is celebrating the family unit as the
Geffen Playhouse headlines the standard of American comedy
standards in a 1937 Pulitzer Prize revival.