Arts

Behind the scenes at the New Swan

The festival’s artistic director, Eli Simon, discusses this summer’s productions and the enduring appeal of Shakespeare

UCI computer scientists breathe life into Venice Biennale installations

Collaborative artworks interact with viewers through artificial intelligence

UCI student film festival to celebrate 20th anniversary with special production June 3

EVENT: Celebrating its 20th anniversary, UCI’s student-run film festival, Zotfest, will screen 10 student films, award prizes in eight categories, and host a panel discussion with several entertainment industry insiders from UCI on the changing landscape of film/television creation and distribution. Speakers will include Desha Dauchan, a filmmaker/writer and UCI assistant professor of teaching in […]

Zotfest marks 20th anniversary

UCI student film festival takes place June 3 at Irvine Barclay Theatre

Art exhibit commemorating Stonewall tells of mid-20th century LGBTQ experience

EVENT: Commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, one of the most important events leading to the modern fight for LGBTQ rights in the United States, UCI presents the art exhibit “Burning Time: A Graphic Book Collaboration.” Jointly produced by Jonathan Alexander, Chancellor’s Professor of English, and Professor Antoinette LaFarge of the Department of […]

UCI art professor Daniel Joseph Martinez receives 2019 Guggenheim Fellowship

UCI artist Daniel Joseph Martinez is among the 2019 Guggenheim Fellows newly named by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. The fellowships were awarded this year to a diverse group of 168 scholars and artists from a pool of almost 3,000 applicants from the United States and Canada, appointed on the basis of prior achievement […]

Assistant professor of drama wins NEH grant

Tara Rodman, UCI assistant professor of drama, has won a 2018 Fellowship for Advanced Social Science Research on Japan from the National Endowment for the Humanities. The $60,000 grant will enable her to research and write a book about the international career of Japanese dancer and choreographer Ito Michio (1893-1961). The Fellowships for Advanced Social […]

Holiday gifts, Anteater-style

Our 2018 guide can help you shop for everyone on your list

UCI Libraries to host talk, reception launching fall exhibit on dancer Donald McKayle

EVENT: The UCI Libraries will kick off its fall exhibit, “Donald McKayle: Dancing for All Time,” with an opening night presentation and reception. The exhibit highlights the life and legacy of the late Donald McKayle, named by the Library of Congress and the Dance Heritage Coalition as “one of America’s irreplaceable dance treasures.” The performer, […]

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grant to fund yearlong series exploring human suffering

The newly formed UCI Center for Medical Humanities – a formal partnership among the Claire Trevor School of the Arts, the School of Humanities and the School of Medicine – has received a $225,000 grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to create a yearlong series called “Suffer Well” that will offer lectures, symposia and […]