Arts + Culture

UCLA Byzantine art history and archaeology professor Sharon Gerstel has devoted much of the last year to studying how architectural changes in Byzantine churches enhanced the performance of religious music.

Lectures, exhibitions and performances will showcase the depth and diversity of UCLA Arts activities and creative programming.

“Treasured Textiles” traces the flowering of three different weaving traditions.

“The Idea of North: The Paintings of Lawren Harris” is the first major U.S. exhibition of Canadian artist Lawren Harris, an innovator on par with contemporaries Edward Hopper and Georgia O’Keeffe.

Zuni Map Art displays how the Zuni see their own history, their ancestral migrations and the parts of nature that sustain them.

Professor Melvin Rogers writes in the Atlantic that Ta-Nehisi Coates’ bestselling new book about racism and African American identity fails to recognize the importance of hope.

The Science and Entertainment Exchange at UCLA connects scientists with filmmakers to bring scientific accuracy to the big screen.

Regardless of where they are from, people judge acts like lying, theft and assault to be wrong — but less wrong if those acts happened far away or long ago.

A record number of students from all over the world recently completed Anderson School of Management's annual MEMES Summer Institutes.

Tobias Higbie is a UCLA scholar of labor history who is using digitized historical records to gain new perspectives about labor and social movements of past eras.

Comedian Kate Clinton’s “coming out” remembrance, coverage of the watershed 1993 march on Washington and the story of murdered transgender teen Fred Martinez are just a few examples of the remarkable new digital portal.

The gift will go toward the Terasaki Center’s program endowment allowing for new initiatives that focus on community engagement.

From answering questions about the paintings to acting as ushers at public talks to helping kids make their own art, the 90-plus visitor experience representatives are an essential part of one of the best museums in Los Angeles.

Deborah Cohen's research took her to extreme heights — 13,000 feet in altitude to be precise — as she explored the thematic depths of the work produced by the Gedun Choephel Artists’ Guild.

UCLA faculty, staff and students, with guidance from a Santa Monica architect, are building a prototype dwelling that they designed to shelter people as well as edible plants, bees, birds, lizards and even bats.

David Roussève, a professor of choreography at UCLA, has been appointed interim dean of the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture, effective July 1, according to an announcement by Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Scott Waugh.

Richard Creese has spent 31 years teaching UCLA students to write. Now the author of eight unpublished novels is the embodiment of the lesson that persistence pays off.

The jazz legend mentored musicians, and in this spirit the virtuoso grad students study with modern masters like Herbie Hancock and Kenny Burrell, and in turn share their expertise with thousands of students in local schools.

In his recently released book, UCLA English professor Joseph Bristow delves into Oscar Wilde’s obsession with obscure poet Thomas Chatterton, whom many scholars have long assumed Wilde plagiarized.

Madeleine Holly-Rosing has combined her love of history and science fiction to create the award-winning comic “Boston Metaphysical Society.”

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.

Folklore scholar Tim Tangherlini has organized a large collection into a database that can be searched by topic, storyteller and location.

For UCLA’s spring Faculty Research Lecture, Kristal, the chair of UCLA’s comparative literature department and a professor of Spanish, will share his life-long love of the Argentine author Jorge Louis Borges.

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.'