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The Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz, which partners with UCLA's Herb Alpert School of Music, is honoring President Bill Clinton for his support of music education for young jazz musicians for over two decades.

The Getty Foundation recently announced grants totaling $685,000 to UCLA's Chicano Studies Research Center, Fowler Museum, Hammer Museum, and Film and Television Archive to cover research, planning for 'Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA' in 2017. 

Join the Fowler Museum at UCLA and Charlene Villaseñor Black, associate professor of art history and Chicano/a studies at UCLA. for a discussion of saints on June 4 at 12 p.m.

An exhibition of the work of MFA students in UCLA Media Arts opens on May 15 and runs through May 29 at the New Wight Gallery.

The Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA has announced its 2014–15 program, featuring complex and collaborative work from renowned contemporary artists in music, theater, dance and spoken word.

New generation of UCLA students to see mural, painted 44 years ago by black art students, depicting the struggles and achievements of African-Americans.

Two exhibitions opening May 4 highlight the Fowler's collection of Native American art and long-standing commitment to displaying the works of indigenous cultures.

As the movie studios go digital, the UCLA Film and Television Archive and Arts Library remind people of the important role film has played in movie-making.

Officials will break ground on facilities at the Los Angeles State Historic Park that will showcase innovative installations created at UCLA's IMLab as a result of a partnership between the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television and California State Parks.

The Oscar won by costume designer Dorothy Jeakins for 'Night of the Iguana' in 1964 is on display this week in the Special Collections Department at Young Research Library.

Benjamin Britten Continuing the long and fruitful relationship between UCLA and the L.A. Opera, prolific conductor James Conlon will present a series of lectures on the works of British composer Benjamin Britten beginning Thursday, Feb. 6. The...

Pianist Gloria Cheng, lecturer in the UCLA Department of Music, has been nominated for a Grammy Award. Her album, "The Edge of Light," (Harmonia Mundi) is under consideration for the award for best classical instrumental solo. Cheng won a Grammy in ...

To visually capture life’s unpredictability, UCLA professor Casey Reas creates stunning art using a computer language he co-created.

 Catherine Opie, whose photographs have been exhibited in some of the finest art museums and galleries in the United States, Europe and Japan, will soon be showing her newest work to people on the run.

Two prominent faculty members in the College of Letters and Science cemented their legacy of distinction at UCLA by making a joint testamentary pledge of $1 million.

The Hammer Museum will be the location for a scent concert performed by the Los Angeles-based Institute for Art and Olfaction doing its interpretation of a scent concert put on in 1902 by German Japanese poet, artist and critic Sadakichi...

The Hammer’s Arts ReSTORE LA: Westwood is a museum-led initiative to show was Westwood Village could become.

The funds will further UCLA's standing as a leader in environmental research, a campus that cares about access for all students, and a vital community resource for the arts.

Justin Perkinson, a UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television graduate student is the eighth 2014 Fulbright Program fellow from TFT since 1993.

The Pulitzer Prize winner served as 16th U.S. Poet Laureate.

UCLA vocal studies chair Michael Dean coaches graduating seniors Shannon Foley and Ashley Yoon, who will sing “The Star-Spangled Banner” at commencement ceremonies on June 14 at Pauley Pavilion.

The 134 students taking Ken Kragen’s inaugural Music Industry 106 class, "Stardom Strategies for Musicians," are primed to expect the unexpected. It started on the first day of class, taught by the longtime music industry...

Jan Kempenaers' photos highlight the now-dilapidated, futuristic-looking monuments that once heralded a socialist future free of ethnic divisions and strife.

From airplane patterns to Johnny Cash songs to crowdsourced digital sheep, techno-artist Aaron Koblin uses online data to explore new frontiers in digital arts.