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Architecture and urban design lecturer Jimenez Lai’s “The Tower of Twelve Stories” is the biggest art installation ever at the annual music and arts festival.

UCLA art history students and local fine arts photography lovers have a rare opportunity to view the life’s work of influential American photographer Robert Frank, known as the inventor of street photography.

Jake Heggie, who earned a B.A. and M.A. in music at UCLA, was a PR writer when the general director of the San Francisco Opera handpicked to compose a score for a libretto by playwright Terrence McNally. Today, he has three operas currently in the pipeline.

More than 125 public events will showcase the depth and diversity of UCLA Arts activities and creative programming.

The bequest from the David Dobrow Trust establishes an endowment that will help ensure the long-term financial security of the Herb Alpert School of Music.

The study’s authors write that while the 2016 Academy Award nominations generated headlines and attention, they merely hint at systemic problems that reach every sector of the industry.

Practice techniques of portraiture with photographer Siri Kaur and see the Hammer exhibition, 'Catherine Opie: Portraits.'

UCLA Library Special Collections posted online a rare interview the famously reclusive author of the classic “To Kill a Mockingbird” gave to WQXR radio host Roy Newquist in 1964.

Professor Malina Stefanovska says that the infamous seducer wasn’t merely after conquest; he chased intelligent conversation and passionate affairs to remember.

To celebrate the department's 50-year role in shaping the world, UCLA Arts will host a gala on Saturday, March 19.

The visual arts grant will support the implementation of the exhibition “HOME—So Different, So Appealing."

Design media arts professor Eddo Stern straddles the world of fine art and game design to ask fundamental questions about the nature of reality.

Music in all its forms has been a big part of UCLA's first century. Acclaimed alumni include John Williams, Jim Morrison, Sara Bareilles and Kamasi Washington.

The original manuscripts of his memoirs reveal a life that went beyond his notorious reputation and academics will discuss that at a conference hosted by UCLA’s Center for 17th and 18th Century Studies.

The confirmation creates UCLA’s 12th professional school. Judi Smith, dean and vice provost emerita of the UCLA College, will serve as interim dean.

Exhibition illustrates ways in which immigrants maintain homeland traditions in the United States and express their ethnic and cultural identities.

Dale Kinney, on faculty at Bryn Mawr College, discusses the relationship between state and church and its impact on 12th-Century art.

The exhibition at the David Zwirner Gallery in New York City runs through Jan. 16.

There will be more than 175 public events presented by the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture showcasing a great depth and diversity of creative programming.

Opening Jan. 10, the exhibition at the Fowler Museum showcases the diversity of imagery, interpretations and uses of weavings from the region.

In a recent posting of a video on the Museum of Contemporary Art website, UCLA professor of photography Catherine Opie, artist A.L. Steiner and MOCA curator Lanka Tattersall discuss Opie’s career.

Learn about the printmaker's work in an efficient 15 minutes with Hammer curatorial assistant January Parkos Arnall.

Meet graduate student artists and view their works in progress at their Culver City studios.

Opening in February, this will be the only West Coast-showing of the exhibition on the small, experimental school in North Carolina which had a profound impact that continues to influence art practice.

Steven Nelson recently joined a long line of respected Africanists who have led the center at the UCLA International Institute.