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Chris Burden, renowned conceptual artist and a professor emeritus in the UCLA Department of Art, died of cancer on May 10 at his home in Topanga Canyon. He was 69.

A little-known piano in Schoenberg Hall, a gift from the estate of actor Edward G. Robinson, bears the signatures of some of the 20th century’s greatest composers and musicians.

A year-long focus will be the massive contribution of women in all art forms. The season begins Oct. 8 with “Desdemona.”

UCLA filmmaker William McDonald of the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television and Pamela Beere Briggs discuss their latest documentary, 'Something Like a Sabbatical.'

In an exhibition opening May 3, hair adornments and a contemporary film address changing ideas of beauty and identity in Africa.

The UCLA Hammer Museum is still seeking volunteers for Mexican artist Pedro Reyes’ People’s United Nations General Assembly on May 2-3.

India Carney, a senior at UCLA and a singer at major campus events, was selected as one of 20 finalists vying to win the eighth season of NBC’s “The Voice.”

“Making Strange: Gagawaka + Postmortem by Vivan Sundaram” and “The Sahmat Collective: Art and Activism in India since 1989” both open April 19.

Erika Green Swafford, a writer on one of the hottest new crime shows, found her UCLA degree helped her land a position on the creative side of the entertainment industry.

UCLA Arts’ spring calendar of more than 150 public events offers the public the chance to experience a wide diversity of creative programming.

Upcoming exhibition will showcase photographs documenting monumental art environments created by artists who find inspiration in their surroundings.

Magnetic media, which are deteriorating, make up half of the holdings in archive. To save the most significant materials that are relevant to California the archive has begun posting them online.

Kal Raustiala writes in an op-ed that the jury was incorrect and that copyright law is intended to create incentives for artists to produce new creative works, not ensure basic fairness.

Visit the UCLA Hammer Museum on Wednesday, March 18 at 7:30 p.m. for 'How to Change the World,' a discussion of how participatory art projects cause cultural shifts.

With Nimoy’s death Friday, a planned April 10 artist talk in Royce Hall has been cancelled. Refunds are available.

With little access to arts education in their schools, roughly 4,400 local children have benefited from the expertise of students and graduates who teach as part of the UCLA's Visual and Performing Arts Education program.

In a new book, UCLA art historian Meredith Cohen shows that the rich history and cultural significance of the 13th century Gothic chapel are equal in importance to its artistic merits.

A new book by UCLA urban historian Eric Avila gives voice to the opponents of highway construction in the 1950s, ’60s and ’70s and, in particular, in communities of color.

A gift by television creator and executive producer Darren Star has made possible the renovation of a 54-seat screening room at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television.

Some of the world’s most talented, up-and-coming young jazz musicians call UCLA home as students and fellows of the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz Performance.

A UCLA psychologist and her sister explain why Disney struck billion-dollar gold with Elsa, Anna and ‘Let It Go.’

The UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture offers more than 150 public events for winter 2015.

The Hammer will debut its first offsite exhibition, “Charles Gaines: Librettos: Manuel de Falla/Stokely Carmichael,” Feb. 28 on a new art and social service campus in Los Angeles’ Leimert Park.

The first major touring exhibition of Emirati art features more than 50 paintings, sculptures and works in other media.

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History has acquired objects that represent the work of world-renowned painter and muralist Judith Baca, a professor in the UCLA César E. Chávez Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies.