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UCLA Library launches international initiative to save at-risk cultural heritage materials
Arcadia, a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin, gives $5.5 million to support Documenting Global Voices.
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Fowler Museum exhibition focuses on bronze objects from southern Nigeria
“Summoning the Ancestors” explores a comprehensive collection of bronzes — 76 bells and 73 ǫfǫ (small objects derived from wooden staffs of power).
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Rethinking classical theater for Los Angeles audiences
UCLA group presents “LA Escena,” the city’s first Hispanic classical theater festival Sept. 21–23.
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UCLA’s William Andrews Clark Memorial Library receives preservation design award
California Preservation Foundation recognized the Clark for preserving its treasured aesthetic while upgrading for safety and accessibility.
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Arts of the Swahili coast featured at Fowler Museum
“World on the Horizon: Swahili Arts Across the Indian Ocean,” an exhibition that challenges fixed and familiar notions of places like Africa, opens Oct. 21.
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Prints from radical, independent press from Mexico City featured at Fowler Museum
“South of No North: Gato Negro Ediciones,” is a dynamic installation of risograph prints and runs until Dec. 9.
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New exhibition at Fowler Museum highlights Maroon arts from Suriname
The show of works from the permanent collection runs until Sept. 9.
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With $1 million gift from Farhang Foundation, UCLA plans to create new minor in Iranian music
The proposed minor would create new opportunities to engage students across all majors on campus, and it would extend the campus’s existing strength in Iranian studies.
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Fowler Museum exhibit reveals the artistry of African blacksmiths
The exhibition “Striking Iron: The Art of African Blacksmiths” contains more than 225 pieces will travel internationally after debuting at UCLA.
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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.
- Tuesday, October 23, 2018