The Fowler Museum at UCLA has been given an important collection of Japanese textiles from Dr. Jeffrey Krauss of Potomac, Md. The new collection nearly doubles the size of the museum's existing holdings of Japanese textiles, making the Fowler an important destination for scholars of Japan's textile arts.

An unprecedented gift of $6 million from newspaper publisher and philanthropist David C. Copley will endow an innovative new center for costume design at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television. The center will be the first of its kind in the world.

Nearly 200 examples of silverwork by acclaimed Taxco craftsman Antonio Pineda will be displayed in "Silver Seduction: The Art of Mexican Modernist Antonio Pineda," a traveling exhibition debuting at the Fowler Museum at UCLA on Aug. 10 and running through March 15, 2009.

UCLA's School of Theater, Film and Television has announced the winners of its Directors Spotlight competition, eight outstanding student filmmakers whose work will be screened at the Directors Guild of America Theater at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, June 12. Also at the event, acclaimed television director and UCLA alumnus Daniel Attias ("The Sopranos," "Entourage," and "Lost") will be honored as UCLA Filmmaker of the Year.