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The “Fowler in Focus: The Spun Universe: Wixárika (Huichol) Yarn Paintings” exhibition chronicles artistic production by the Wixárika people, commonly referred to as the Huichol.

On Tuesday, Aug. 16 at 7:30 p.m., the Hammer Museum and the UCLA Confucius Institute present "Body of the Buddha: Art of the Dunhuang Temples." The conversation will be led by historian D. Neil Schmid.

On Thursday at 8 p.m., trombonist Michael Vlatkovich and his band of versatile improvisers will perform in the Hammer Museum’s courtyard as part of the museum's 11th annual Jazz POP series of free concerts.  

Filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola returned to UCLA, his alma mater, to run an experimental workshop to test his concept for Live Cinema, a new kind of movie-making that combines the best of filmmaking, television and live theater.

Professor Shana Redmond connects the language and themes of slave narratives with the song Jay-Z released in response to the police killings of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile.

The gift from the renowned art dealer — the largest single gift made by an alumna to the arts in UC history — will add 40 percent more usable space to the current arts facility.

UCLA alumna Billie Tsien and her husband, Tod Williams, will lead the design and engineering work needed to build the first presidential library that will be located in a predominantly African-American urban setting.

In the hands of artist and UCLA professor Judy Baca, the mural is a powerful teaching tool of L.A. history and student empowerment.

Lynn’s firm is among 12 of the best contemporary architecture and design teams chosen from across the country to take on the challenge.

Two-time Academy Award winner Quentin Tarantino gave the keynote speech at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television’s 14th Annual Design Showcase West Saturday.

Highly regarded for his contributions as an artist, poet, educator and activist, José Montoya (1932–2013) was a pivotal figure in the Chicano movement.

The UCLA Hammer Museum’s popular biennial exhibition highlights the practices of artists working throughout Los Angeles.

UCLA professor of design media arts Jennifer Steinkamp has created an animation featuring thousands of flowers that is now playing on electronic billboards in Times Square.

Familiar faces in dance, theater, music and spoken word will come to campus, alongside a fresh approach to Shakespeare and ambitious multi-disciplinary events.

An associate professor in the UCLA Department of Art, McMillian currently has three solo exhibitions in New York and Philadelphia.

Verona discusses his Fowler Museum exhibition of photographs contrasting changes in China over the past four decades.

The UCLA alumna and faculty member was said by Martha Graham to have the rare ability to “capture the instant of a dance and transform it into a timeless gesture.”

Emeriti faculty show their work in the annual Sylvia Winstein Emeriti Arts and Crafts Exhibit on Tuesday, May 17.

Since 1999, UCLA can count 19 winners of the annual Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans, which support exemplary students as they pursue graduate school.

“MAO to NOW: Photographs by Stephen Verona” features 32 images contrasting China in 1980 with China in 2014. The exhibition runs from May 15 until Sept. 11.

When David Sedaris visits UCLA each year, the Poetry Bureau assembles outside Royce Hall. And types.

“The Collector and the Dealer: Gifts of African Art from Jay T. Last and Merton D. Simpson” underscores the lasting impact that two men have had on the development of the museum’s acclaimed African art holdings.

The total donation includes an already received gift of $1 million and a $14 million in matching funds to support operations and grow the museum’s endowment.

Peter Bisanz has been appointed the new executive director of the Skoll Center for Social Impact Entertainment at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television, Dean Teri Schwartz announced today.  

To UCLA visual artist Casey Reas, writing computer code and programming are not so much technical skills as “thinking” skills that he has managed to apply to artistic expression to great effect.