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UCLA Arts announces Spring 2018 events calendar
Featured among the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture’s 100-plus events: Kyle Abraham, Angélique Kidjo, Kenya HARA and Brett Steele.
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Photos of traditional Oaxacan games featured in new Fowler Museum show
‘Pelotas Oaxaqueñas/Oaxacan Ball Games: Photographs by Leopoldo Peña’ is on view until July 15.
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UCLA, Univision and others team up to unearth solutions to Hollywood’s lack of diversity
The partners, who also include multiple Hollywood industry groups, are trying to initiate changes around diversity, inclusion and equality efforts in the entertainment industry.
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With renewed vigor, UCLA’s William Andrews Clark Memorial Library reopens
The archival and architectural treasure was closed for two years for seismic retrofitting and to bring the building into compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act.
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Exhibition of La Raza photos documents Chicano life in L.A. during the 60s and 70s
The UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center is home to the publication’s archives, selections of which are on display at the Autry Museum as part of Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA.
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Lost ancient texts recovered and published online through international partnership
UCLA Library scholars worked with partners at St. Catherine’s Monastery and the Early Manuscripts Electronic Library on the five-year Sinai Palimpsests Project.
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Cameroonian ceramics, textiles and beadwork featured in Fowler Museum exhibition
“Dining with Kings: Ceremony and Hospitality in the Cameroon Grassfields” runs from Dec. 17 through April 15, 2018.
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Professor’s study of human development led to collection of Mayan textiles
Psychologist Patricia Greenfield’s “Weaving Generations Together” is on display at Powell Library through Dec. 15.
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Conference at UCLA explores the significance of American Jewish music and its reach
Program opens Sept. 5 with the world premiere of “David’s Quilt,” featuring 15 L.A.-based composers including one UCLA faculty member and three graduate students.
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Fowler Museum presents ‘Axé Bahia: The Power of Art in an Afro-Brazilian Metropolis’
Part of Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA, “Axé Bahia” features more than 100 works by 35 artists. It will run from Sept. 24 through April 15, 2018.
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UCLA project reveals ‘invisible’ presence of the Tongva
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.
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Fowler Museum at UCLA explores Brazil’s African history and cultural heritage in new exhibition
“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.
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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.
- Wednesday, April 25, 2018