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The bonus version of the hit song ‘Pressure’ was recorded on campus in June in the Evelyn and Mo Ostin Music Center at the Herb Alpert School of Music.

Vogel has been named the school’s inaugural Hearst Theater Lab Initiative Distinguished Visiting Playwright-in-Residence.

In this Q&A, Dan Froot extolls the virtues of interdisciplinary scholarship and the importance of art as a tool for justice.

Bernard Kester, UCLA professor emeritus of design media arts who taught ceramics, weaving and design and initiated the university’s fiber art program, died Oct. 26. He was 90.

Every year for more than a decade students have won Alfred P. Sloan Foundation fellowships that promote science fact in film and television.

UCLA English professor Anne Mellor reflects on the lasting influence of and impetus behind the author’s iconic monster.

The venue will be transformed to host live performances and breathe new life into a neighborhood landmark.

The annual Gala in the Garden supports the Hammer Museum at UCLA’s internationally acclaimed exhibitions and public programs, which are free to the public.

Q&A with theater professor Tom O’Connor, who performs in and was responsible for bringing “Blue Moon Over Memphis,” a play in the Noh theater tradition, to campus.

Jade Elliott, who studied jazz at UCLA, earned the opportunity of her young career: an all-expenses paid trip to Switzerland to perform at the high-profile event.

A class created by adjunct professor David Leaf will tell the band’s story through film, video and interviews with music industry executives.

“Summoning the Ancestors” explores a comprehensive collection of bronzes — 76 bells and 73 ǫfǫ (small objects derived from wooden staffs of power).

Featured among the 150-plus events: Taylor Mac, Theaster Gates, Fran Lebowitz, Monika Baer, Judy Baca and Juliana Huxtable.

Q&A with Janet O’Shea, UCLA professor of dance, about “Risk, Failure, Play: What Dance Reveals about Martial Arts Training.”

The program is both an upper-level undergraduate course and public lecture series that brings together 40 leading minds to discuss 10 timely and fundamental questions.

The legendary musician has been a part of the faculty since 1978; Dean Judith Smith said the chair will extend his “tireless advocacy work for jazz as an American art form.”

New major is an extension of the jazz studies concentration, established in 1996 by jazz icon Kenny Burrell.

In this Q&A, director of the UCLA Game Lab Eddo Stern discusses the lab’s origins and what projects they’re sending to the Victoria and Albert Museum.

UCLA group presents “LA Escena,” the city’s first Hispanic classical theater festival Sept. 21–23.

Dean Teri Schwartz and Nadja Swarovski served as producers on “Waterschool,” which shines a light on the need to safeguard the world’s fresh water.

“South of No North: Gato Negro Ediciones,” is a dynamic installation of risograph prints and runs until Dec. 9.

Of the 32 artists featured in this year’s exhibition, 11 are Bruins and 10 of those got degrees from the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture.

In her esteemed career, Barbara Drucker has left an indelible mark not just on UCLA and the art world, but in Los Angeles schools where she reshaped arts education.

The show of works from the permanent collection runs until Sept. 9.

The schedule, which runs from September 22, 2018, to May 10, 2019, offers 42 events and 59 performances, with one U.S. and seven West Coast premieres, plus two exclusive programs.