Someone broke Lykke Li’s heart, and the results are an exquisite, if somewhat monochrome, self-portrait of pain and loneliness. “I Never Learn” is the Swedish singer-songwriter’s third album, the last in her self-described trilogy.
DJ manager by night, fish sculptor by day, Kevin McHugh is a New York-based artist whose installation “Disco Jaws” is on display at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival.
Nearly 19 years ago, the suicide of teenager Holden Layfield shook the small town of LaGrange, Ga.
The community of LaGrange has since come together in support of “Holden On,” a film based on the true events of Layfield’s troubled life and death, written and to be directed by UCLA alumnus Tamlin Hall, a LaGrange native who knew Layfield growing up.
It’s 7:45 a.m. on a Saturday. Most of campus is asleep, but UCLA professor and founder of the nonprofit Access Books Rebecca Constantino is setting up a table outside Rolfe Hall to welcome students and writers for a full day of workshops.
Kamran Khavarani created his own art genre, but he wasn’t sure what to name it. That’s why he called Albert Boime, a late UCLA art history professor, who later hailed Khavarani as the leader of a new artistic movement called “abstract romanticism.”
Khavarani is a decorated architect-turned-painter whose work has inspired research on art therapy and was the subject of Boime’s final book, “The Birth of Abstract Romanticism.”
Khavarani said the name “abstract romanticism” may seem like an oxymoron, but it describes his art perfectly.
In March, professor of history William Marotti published “Money, Trains, and Guillotines: Art and Revolution in 1960s Japan,” a book investigating activist art. Daily Bruin’s Natalie Chudnovsky sat down with Marotti to discuss his research for the book, his take on politics and art and the lecture he gave Tuesday night as part of the Urban Humanities Initiative series.
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