Arts + Culture

Scholars are and tribe members are developing educational resources that shed light on this vital part of California’s indigenous history and also on its future.

“How to Make the Universe Right” presents a stunning installation of painted religious scrolls, ceremonial clothing, and ritual objects of the Yao, Tày, Sán Dìu, Sán Chay among others.

UCLA digital humanities students built a website and database that sparked a curator to develop “Center Stage: African American Women in Silent Race Films.”

“Lineage through Landscape: Tracing Egun in Brazil by Fran Siegel,” a large-scale multifaceted drawing installation by Los Angeles-based artist Fran Siegel runs July 23 through Dec. 10.

UCLA-led study comparing lyrics in songs atop the hip-hop charts and rap songs that are shared on social media shows that “pro-social” messages are also popular.

The collaboration will provide eight student singers with professional mentorship opportunities.

A book of 1893 drawings by a Union veteran was painstakingly restored by UCLA Library Special Collections.

The event was held to support the UCLA Margo Leavin Graduate Art Studios, raise funds for student support and celebrate the importance of the top-ranked UCLA Department of Art to the cultural ecology of the city.

Unique stories will be created at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television/Université Côte D’Azur Storytelling Institute.

The 83-year-old’s work destroying household objects and creating sculpture from the detritus created sharp commentaries on global conflict, consumerism and nuclear war.

Lloyd Cotsen, former chief executive officer and chairman of the board of Neutrogena Corporation and longtime philanthropist to UCLA, died at his Beverly Hills home on May 8. He was 88.

Three-day event will explore compositional responses by contemporary composers, including university faculty and students, to canonic works.

Among David Leaf's classroom guests are seven members of the Songwriters Hall of Fame, three Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees, Grammy Award winners, and other legendary and contemporary songwriters.

A diverse array of artists, dancers, writers and musicians from around the world will showcase their talents on campus and new this year also in downtown Los Angeles.

The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music has created the Center for Musical Humanities to advance interdisciplinary interest in music and the humanities across the university.

This one-time event will feature work by current and former UCLA faculty and alumni to support the renovation and expansion of the studios.

The event featured Terry George, an Academy Award-nominated writer and director; Dr. Eric Esrailian of the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA; and Stephen D. Smith of the USC Shoah Foundation.

The more than 100 public events include exhibitions at campus museums and galleries; lectures by artists, alumni and faculty; and performances by students and professionals.

The Herb Alpert School of Music will use the fund to contribute to research, scholarship and programs in the field at the undergraduate, graduate and faculty levels.

In the coming season, CAP UCLA will present a dozen performances at the Theatre at Ace Hotel.

A portrait of Oscar Wilde that typically hangs in a small hallway inside UCLA’s William Andrews Clark Library will be on public display next month for the first time in Great Britain.

The program drew from the expertise of more than two dozen speakers from film and television studios, law firms, talent agencies, new media powerhouses and venture capital companies.

“African-Print Fashion Now!” introduces visitors to a dynamic African dress tradition featuring the colorful, boldly designed, textiles that have come to be known as “African-print cloth.”

The program started in 2001 with 36 participants from disadvantaged homes in Los Angeles. Eight years later, Martin was at the White House to receive the nation’s highest honor for an arts-based youth program.

The report examines hiring of women and minorities for 200 theatrical film releases in 2015, as well as 1,206 TV, cable and digital platform shows from 2014–15.