You'll never see a velvet Elvis at UCI's Beall Center—unless, perhaps, it is made entirely from live bees—and this is simultaneously comforting and terrifying. There's no safe here; your intellect, the arty part of your brain will be challenged (which, conversely, could be its own type of safety). And yet: some shows naturally do this more than others, like the Beall's latest exhibition, "Quantizing Effects: The Liminal Art of Jim Campbell," which debuted last year in Santa Fe, New Mexico. It's a dark room with a bunch of lights and some sound—sure to make you bristle, if a Campbell's soup can was what you wanted—but as you investigate, the realm of what can be known expands in front of you, always... More >>>