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UCLA Arts Events for May 5 - May 11, 2008

Department of Architecture and Urban Design

Eric Owen Moss
Mon, May 5 at 6:30pm
Perloff Hall,
Room 1302 (Decafe)
Free admission

Principal, Eric Owen Moss, Los Angeles

Director of the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) since 2002, Moss founded Eric Owen Moss Architects in 1973 in Los Angeles. The recipient of more than 60 design awards from Progressive Architecture magazine and the American Institute of Architects (AIA), Moss won the Los Angeles AIA Gold Medal for Design in 2001 and the 2007 Arnold Brunner Memorial Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters for his "significant contribution to architecture as an art." In 2002, his firm won two competitions in St. Petersburg, Russia, one for the New Mariinsky Theater, the second for the redevelopment of New Holland isle. Moss won the international competition for the Queens Museum of Art in New York in 2003 and the History Channel's City of the Future competition in 2006. His work has been featured in numerous exhibitions.

Double Edge: Taira Nishizawa and Jean-Phillipe Vassal
through May 19
Opening reception:
Mon, Apr 21 at 8pm
Perloff Gallery, Perloff Hall, Gallery Hours: M-F, 9am-5pm

This exhibition examines the "edge" conditions between the work of Tokyo-based Taira Nishizawa and Paris-based Jean-Philippe Vassal.

Department of Art

Visiting Artist Lecture Series:
Andrea Fraser
Thurs, May 8 at 7pm
Billy Wilder Theater
Hammer Museum

MFA 2008 Exhibitions: MFA #4

Manya Fox
Alexandria Harris
Uri Nir
Charlotte F. Smith
Jacob Yanes

though May 8
New Wight Gallery,
Broad Art Center
Gallery Hours:
Mon-Fri, 9am-4:30pm
Saturday, 10am-6pm
Free Admission

Department of World Arts and Cultures

Yoruba Counterworks: Ritual Renewal and the Arts of SubversionPhotographs by Andrew Apter
through Jun 6
Glorya Kaufman Hall,
Second Floor, S. Lobby
Free Admission

The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music

Department of Music

chambermusic@ucla
Luscious Strings with Anne Akiko Meyers
Mon, May 5 at 8pm
Jan Popper Theater
$15 general admission, $7 students (with ID) and seniors

Professors Movses Pogossian, violin, Richard O'Neill, viola, and Antonio Lysy, cello, with conductor Neal Stulberg and UCLA's string students, introduce Regent's Lecturer and violin virtuoso Anne Akiko Meyers in a presentation of major, sublime and unforgettable chamber works.

The premiere of a violin and piano piece, the winner of a special composition competition, will be presented by Ms. Meyers and Neal Stulberg. The program also includes “Metamorphosen” by Richard Strauss and Mendelssohn’s Octet for Strings.

Senior Recitals
Fri, May 9
2pm - Timothy Yip, violin
5pm - Karenssa LeGear, voice
8pm - Dena Orkin, clarinet
Jan Popper Theater
Free admission

Master of Music Recital
Rebecca Sjowall, voice
Sat, May 10 at 2pm
Jan Popper Theater
Free admission

Senior Recitals
Sun, May 11
5pm - Ryan Weston, saxophone
8pm - Luke Diebolt, tuba
Jan Popper Theater
Free admission

Department of Ethnomusicology

Hammer Museum Spring Festival of World Music 2008: Music of the Balkans Ensemble, & Music of Korea Ensemble
Sat, May 10 at 2 & 3:30pm
Hammer Museum
Free Admission

Fowler Museum

This week's events

Fowler Out Loud: Acensore and the Eli Sundelson Trio
Thurs, May 8 at 6pm

Cotsen Open House
Sat, May 10 at 1pm

Performance and Exhibition Tour:
The Sounds of Bengali Scrolls
Sun, May 11 at 2pm

Kids in the Courtyard: Bengali Scroll Painting
Sun, May 11 at 1pm

Exhibitions

Mami Wata: Arts for Water Spirits in Africa and Its Diasporas
Apr 6-Aug 10

Please Listen, People
Addressing HIV/AIDS in Bengali Scroll Paintings
Mar 15-July 13

Make Art/Stop AIDS
through Jun 15

Intersections: World Arts, Local Lives
ongoing display

Hammer Museum