‘Queens at Heart’: Rediscovering a pre-Stonewall portrait of trans lives
The UCLA Film & Television Archive led the restoration of the film, which is available to stream.
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Kara Jenelle Wade honors her heritage in dance
The graduating dancer and choreographer will speak at UCLA Arts’ virtual commencement on June 12.
Charley Andrews graduates with lessons of building community
She will speak at the UCLA Arts 2021 virtual commencement ceremony on June 12.
UCLA commencement speakers include alumnus D’Artagnan Scorza, Black Lives Matter’s Patrisse Cullors, astronaut Megan McArthur
Graduation season shifts from virtual to hybrid celebrations.
LGBTQ series ‘In the Life’ remains as relevant as ever
UCLA’s archive of the groundbreaking newsmagazine provides historical context and understanding.
Chon Noriega’s visionary leadership brought Latino culture and art to the forefront
The director of UCLA’s Chicano Studies Research Center is stepping down at the end of June after nearly two decades.
Chancellor’s Arts Initiative funds grant to support faculty’s arts-based research
Projects will be featured on the GO ARTS UCLA online platform, launched today.
Hammer Museum creates streaming-like video channel
The Hammer Channel online video platform features more than 1,000 conversations, talks, performances and more.
Professor Janet O’Shea on managing conflict through competitive play
How martial arts can help people learn to cooperate and manage disagreements.
For digital artists, NFTs are promising – and problematic
UCLA design media arts faculty and alumni share their thoughts on the crypto-art craze.
8 UCLA professors elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
The academy is one of the nation’s most prestigious honorary societies.
2021 Hollywood Diversity Report: Audiences showed up for diverse films in theaters, online
During a fractured release year, there was progress in gender and racial representation in all key categories, but disparities in budgets.
UCLA celebrates costume designers at annual Sketch to Screen event
Deborah Nadoolman Landis, founding director of the David C. Copley Center for the Study of Costume Design, will moderate the April 24 event.
Eight UCLA professors awarded 2021 Guggenheim Fellowships
UCLA had more faculty honored than any other university.
Susan Leigh Foster to share how dance functions in our lives
The distinguished professor in the UCLA Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance will deliver the 129th Faculty Research Lecture.
UCLA Library announces Spring 2021 public programs
From film screenings to data visualization classes to undergraduate research week, the library will be hosting a wide variety of virtual events.
Hammer Museum’s Connie Butler looks back – and ahead
As the museum prepares to reopen, its chief curator reflects on the lessons learned during a challenging year.
Using art and technology, proposal aims to increase bike commuting in L.A.
A project by UCLA faculty envisions collaborative bicycle ‘flows’ that generate digital exhibitions.
UCLA lab asks: ‘What does your favorite song taste like?’
The PEER Lab will host a series of free virtual events beginning April 29.
Peter Sellars’ new project is a continent-spanning multidisciplinary film about illness
A creative response to COVID-19, ‘this body is so impermanent …’ was made by artists as a call to learn and heal together.
Architecture students dream up building that promotes anti-racism and equity
Some of the renderings resembled a town hall, or a laboratory building, or even a busy train station where people are moving and congregating.
Dominic Taylor’s course spans 400-plus years of African American theater
The acting chair of UCLA’s theater department covers the subject from 1619 to the present.
Visual artist and UCLA Arts staff member Verlena Johnson paints love, Blackness and divinity
Johnson, a student affairs officer in the architecture and urban design department, has also written a children’s book starring her son.
Q&A: Faculty documentary on migrants chosen for SXSW, Big Sky film festivals
Professors Maite Zubiaurre and Kristy Guevara-Flanagan hope their film about searching for those lost in the desert will change immigration policy.
Choreographer and filmmaker Will Rawls to deliver regents’ professor lecture on Feb. 16
Rawls, a 2020–2021 UC Regents professor, will explore themes that inform his research into stop-motion filmmaking.