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UCLA historian brings language of the Aztecs from ancient to contemporary times
Once the lingua franca of Mexico, Nahuatl was eventually overtaken by Spanish. Today, the Aztec language is spoken only by 1.5 million people in Mexico, many of whom live in the state of Veracruz on the western edge of the Gulf of Mexico.
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Top rock-era songwriters share life lessons of success, setbacks in popular UCLA class
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.
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Panel at Hammer Museum highlights how filmmakers depict genocide
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.
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Oscar contenders are more diverse, but UCLA report urges Hollywood to address ongoing equity issues
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.
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Fowler Museum's chief curator: What ancient cultures can teach us
Matthew Robb, the new chief curator of UCLA’s Fowler Museum, believes we still have much to learn from the ancient cultures of the Americas.
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Brett Steele named dean of UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture
Brett Steele, the director of London's Architectural Association School of Architecture, one of the world’s oldest and most influential schools of architecture, has been appointed dean of the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture.
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Fowler Museum to feature photographs of dance and fashion in South Africa
The photographs in capture a cultural movement that has been inspired by Jazz-era America and Europe to both South African dance styles and American hip-hop.
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Spectacular, rare headdresses from Sierra Leone coming to Fowler Museum
The headdresses that will be on display reflect the blending of cultural influences and peoples in the port city of Freetown during the 1970s.
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Vintage Los Angeles news treasures go digital
A 1964 interview with Martin Luther King Jr. is one of many historical moments from KTLA-TV in a new online portal created by the UCLA Film and Television Archive.
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Restoring Thai musical instruments strengthens ties between UCLA and community
UCLA representatives traveled to Bangkok to offer a cultural treasure in gratitude for support.
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Fowler Museum presents first solo U.S. museum exhibition of Cuban artist Belkis Ayón
“Nkame: A Retrospective of Cuban Printmaker Belkis Ayón” features 43 prints that explore the founding myth of the Afro-Cuban secret society Abakuá. The exhibition opens Oct. 2.
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David Yoo to head UCLA's Institute of American Cultures
David Yoo, director of the Asian American Studies Center at UCLA, will become vice provost of the Institute of American Cultures, effective Sept. 1.
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Werner Herzog film follows internet from its birth at UCLA
The internet itself is neither good nor bad, says Werner Herzog, director of “Lo and Behold,” a new documentary on the communication revolution.
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Fowler exhibition features yarn paintings from Western Mexico
The “Fowler in Focus: The Spun Universe: Wixárika (Huichol) Yarn Paintings” exhibition chronicles artistic production by the Wixárika people, commonly referred to as the Huichol.
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In memoriam: UCLA emerita English professor and author Carolyn See
Author, critic and UCLA emerita English professor Carolyn See, 82, died July 13 in Santa Monica as a result of congestive heart failure.
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Charlene Villaseñor Black is as good as gold as recipient of top faculty prize
This professor of art history and Chicana/o studies received the 2016 Gold Shield Faculty Prize, given by the Gold Shield Alumnae of UCLA to a mid-career faculty member with outstanding accomplishments.
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UCLA faculty voice: Lamenting the murder of one of the Sabri Brothers
Professor Khaled Abou El Fadl on how Sufi music — and especially the Sabri Brothers — have been bridging the divide between Islam and the West.
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Archaeologists and geographers team to predict locations of ancient Buddhist sites
UCLA researchers used geographic modeling to reveal 121 sites where important Indian texts from the third century B.C. could be carved into rock.
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Exhibition at the Fowler Museum captures rapid cultural evolution in modern China
“MAO to NOW: Photographs by Stephen Verona” features 32 images contrasting China in 1980 with China in 2014. The exhibition runs from May 15 until Sept. 11.
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Eight things you might not know about UCLA’s Cotsen Institute of Archaeology
Go behind the scenes at the institute’s annual open house on April 30, which offers visitors a chance to learn about one of the world’s preeminent archaeology labs.
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New Fowler Museum exhibition highlights African art
“The Collector and the Dealer: Gifts of African Art from Jay T. Last and Merton D. Simpson” underscores the lasting impact that two men have had on the development of the museum’s acclaimed African art holdings.
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Art of the Austronesians: The Legacy of Indo-Pacific Voyaging
The exhibition at the Fowler Museum at UCLA will feature 200 rare and diverse artworks from the Austronesian-speaking peoples including ancient ceramics, carved ancestor figures, textiles and ritual objects.
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For the love of film
UCLA Film and Television Archive, the nation’s second-largest moving-image repository, just celebrated its 50th anniversary.
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‘Celebrate/Demonstrate: Photographs of Global L.A.’ by Cindy Bendat
Exhibition illustrates ways in which immigrants maintain homeland traditions in the United States and express their ethnic and cultural identities.
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UCLA Q&A: The modern mismatch
We live in the shadow of our achievements, says Dr. Peter Whybrow, best-selling author and director of the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at UCLA.
- Thursday, June 29, 2017