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Drama Professor Receives Top BillingDrama Professor Receives Top Billing
Drama Professor Receives Top Billing May 5, 2016 In 1965, Robert Cohen, a young dramatist intent on gaining a tenured professorship, faced a choice between offers from UC Berkeley or the fledgling UC Irvine, sprouting amid cow pastures and orange groves. He chose the latter. “It was close...
Daniel Joseph Martinez Offers a Front-Row Seat to a Famous Artistic Murder - Starring HimselfDaniel Joseph Martinez Offers a Front-Row Seat to a Famous Artistic Murder - Starring Himself
April 23, 2016 Walk into Roberts & Tilton gallery in Culver City and you will stumble into a murder scene. A man lies dead in a bathtub. His wild-eyed assailant stands behind him, knife in hand, ready to strike again in case the deed is not done. Another figure reaches toward the...
Kojiro Umezaki and the Silk Road Ensemble Release New Album with Yo-Yo MaKojiro Umezaki and the Silk Road Ensemble Release New Album with Yo-Yo Ma
Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble recently released the new album, Sing Me Home. Associate Professor of Music Kojiro Umezaki is a member of the Silk Road Ensemble and contributed to this album. Sing Me Home is a companion album, developed and recorded for the documentary, The Music of Strangers:...
Joe Lewis has a New Installation at The Phatory 
Things are looking up for Orange County's Trio CélesteThings are looking up for Orange County's Trio Céleste
A good thing to know about Trio Céleste, though not absolutely necessary, is how to pronounce the name. “I don’t even know how to correctly pronounce it, there you go,” the group’s cellist Ross Gasworth quips. The other two members, pianist Kevin Kwan Loucks and violinist Iryna Krechkovsky,...
Monica Majoli Featured in Mousse Magazine
Connie Samaras has Two Exhibitions at UC San DiegoConnie Samaras has Two Exhibitions at UC San Diego
UC Irvine Professor of Art Connie Samaras currently has two exhibitions running at UC San Diego. The exhibitions are titled, Connie Samaras: Speculative Landscapes, and feature Samaras’ photography and video from the series Edge of Twilight, V.A.L.I.S, and After the American Century...
Ulysses Jenkins in ‘BACKSTORY’ in Art in America Magazine Ulysses Jenkins in ‘BACKSTORY’ in Art in America Magazine
Professor of Art Ulysses Jenkins is in BACKSTORY by Kerry James Marshall. The article describes his time at Otis Art Institute of Los Angeles County with fellow artists Ulysses Jenkins, Greg Pitts, and Ronnie Nichols. BACKSTORY by Kerry James Marshall
For a New ‘Rainbow,’ Donald McKayle Is Still ExplainingFor a New ‘Rainbow,’ Donald McKayle Is Still Explaining
The most ferocious sound in the room at the David H. Koch Theater was coming from an 85-year-old man in a wheelchair. But the years melted away as that man — Donald McKayle, the modern dance and Broadway choreographer known for exploring African-American themes in his work — watched a recent...
Amy Bauer Presented at the Intercultural Music Conference 2016
Kojiro Umezaki performed at TED 2016Kojiro Umezaki performed at TED 2016
Associate Professor of Music Kojiro Umezaki performed with the Silk Road Ensemble and Rhiannon Giddens at the main TED Conference (TED 2016) in Vancouver, Canada. Kojiro has been with the Silk Road Ensemble for fifteen years. LINK - Silk Road Ensemble LINK - Rhiannon Giddens
Christopher Dobrian Appointed 2016 International Conference on Musical Gesture as Creative Interface Committee Christopher Dobrian Appointed 2016 International Conference on Musical Gesture as Creative Interface Committee
Professor of Music Christopher Dobrian was appointed to the scientific committee of the 2016 International Conference on Musical Gesture as Creative Interface in Porto, Portugal. He will be presenting his research there in March on the topic of "Using Detected Gestures in Music as the Control...
Michael Dessen Trio Awarded New Music USA Project GrantMichael Dessen Trio Awarded New Music USA Project Grant
Associate Professor of Music, Michael Dessen, was awarded a project grant by New Music USA to support performances, outreach events and a recording by his electro-acoustic trio. The trio, featuring bassist Chris Tordini and drummer Dan Weiss along with Dessen on trombone/computer/composition, has...
Professor Joe Lewis in Artists' Talk at Sacramento State Professor Joe Lewis in Artists' Talk at Sacramento State
Pump Up the Volume is Jane Dickson and Joe Lewis’ celebration of hip hop’s ascension into a global movement from its earliest moments that they witnessed in the South Bronx. The exhibition consists of approximately 60+ discrete pieces, including portraits of important genre artists, dating from...
Legendary actor William Needles dies at 97 Legendary actor William Needles dies at 97
William "Bill" Needles, former professor of Drama and one of Canada's best-known Shakespearean actors, has died at age 97. Needles served as an acting teacher at the University of California for a number of years and was a mentor to hundreds. "Perhaps the greatest of his many talents was his...
Ansel Adams' Student Photo CallAnsel Adams' Student Photo Call
(c) Theater Times - November 14, 2015 by Cristofer Gross with Robert Cohen ANSEL ADAMS' STUDENT PHOTO CALL A surprising photo credit for a college rehearsal shot sparks inquiry. Walking into UC Irvine’s main library in 2008, I stopped before a poster bearing a remarkable photograph. The...
Director Don Hill’s Take on “La Mancha”
‘Elsewhere’ Here at Claire Trevor‘Elsewhere’ Here at Claire Trevor
Annie Loui’s Elsewhere presented by Counter-Balance Theater returns to UC Irvine as part of the Chancellor’s Illuminations initiative. The play, based on the Kazuo Ishiguro’s book “Never Let Me Go,” questions the boundaries of medical ethics and explores the universal-timeless search for self-...
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