Arts + Culture

UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music Dean Michael Beckerman discusses sonic representations of Jewishness on and off screen.

UCLA Asian American Studies Center’s launch of “Foundations and Futures” will help schools meet ethnic studies requirements.

Young audiences want to see authentic representation on the big screen and are sophisticated judges of it.

Free to the public, the 22nd biennial festival celebrates the UCLA Film & Television Archive’s latest preservation and restoration work.

Benjamin Freyinger and Andrew Holder created “Visage Brut,” which is on display at this year’s Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival.

The No. 1–ranked UCLA Bruins baseball team is celebrating Jackie Robinson Day this year in a special way.

Currently the interim dean, Popkin has provided UCLA Arts with steady leadership during a challenging time. He will begin his permanent tenure May 1.

Fontana's writing lives on beyond the small screen on the grounds of UCLA. 

Theater-maker and UCLA professor Marike Splint often begins her work not with a script, but with a place.

Success results from assembling a crew with a record of success; flop experience begets a flop.

All five nominees — including Kate Hawley, who went on to win — appeared at TFT’s annual panel.

Restorations, retrospectives and a biennial festival of preservation explore comedy, film history, experimental filmmaking and international storytelling.

Studios ignore diversity’s potential for profit, according to the 2026 Hollywood Diversity Report.

UCLA ethnomusicologist Cheryl Keyes talks about the importance of the Delta blues in the horror film, which has been nominated for 16 Oscars.

The joint initiative advances shared acquisitions and long-term stewardship for area artists.

The interactive exhibition is drawn from the department’s archives and is part of AUD's 60th anniversary programming series.

The Afrofuturism and horror film expert discusses the groundbreaking film’s sweeping take on race, memory and modern America.

The latest grants support creative research spanning migration histories, digital performance, environmental justice and community storytelling.

The collaboration with Kyoto’s Ritsumeikan University will create what could become the largest digital collection of its kind outside of Japan.

Part of Team USA’s self-dubbed “Blade Angels,” Alysa Liu returned to the ice this week, competing in the women’s figure skating competition at the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympics.

Floridalma Boj Lopez’s new book reminds audiences that Maya are still here and are critical cultural producers.

Emmy-nominated producer Shamell Bell has used dance to bridge performance, healing and political practice.

Events honoring Black communities, resilience and creativity are taking place during the observance month on and around campus.

UCLA alumna Joanna Love examines how halftime performances reflect changing ideas of America.

Michael Wellen has been named chief curator and Regan Pro will assume the newly created role of chief of learning, engagement and research.