Arts + Culture

The history professor urges everyone to draw inspiration from the beautiful things around us, like the efforts of health care workers, and protests for social justice.

The Nicholas Endowment and Gluck Foundation provide opportunities for teens from underrepresented communities.

There have been 225 recipients of the scholarships since 1989. Another 13 recipients will begin their studies in the fall.

The open access project, part of a collaboration with the Kaleidoscope Chamber Orchestra, is the largest for contemporary musical works in the world.

UCLA’s Center for the Art of Performance moves to an online stage, focusing on rebuilding financial stability for artists.

UCLA Design Showcase West Salons will debut Saturday, June 20 at 10 a.m. and will feature production designers from Apple TV+ and Netflix shows.

The Outfest UCLA Legacy Project — the world’s largest publicly accessible collection of LGBTQ films — contains some 41,000 irreplaceable items of motion picture history.

Hajar Azzam, a recipient of the Chancellor’s Service Award, wants to create work that promotes peace and justice.

Michelle Liu Carriger shares how she used UCLA’s Fiat Lux seminar program to create a class that helped students understand life during quarantine through an artistic lens.

As professors were forced to change how they teach, the Fiat Lux seminars provided a platform to also change what they taught to help students understand the crisis.

UCLA architecture faculty on how the design of buildings and public spaces may evolve after COVID-19.

The gift will support Herb Alpert School of Music cello students and UCLA’s Center for the Art of Performance.

Professors and alumni played a big role in bringing the stories of America’s most diverse ethnic group to the small screen.

Q&A with Scott MacQueen, the Archive’s head of preservation discusses the history and recent restoration of the film, which is getting released on Blu-ray in May.

The Bay Area native recently became co-editor of the preeminent scholarly journal for theater studies, and in May he will celebrate the publication of his second book.

Supported by a grant from the NEH, curators will draw from multiple collections that help tell the story of Mexican-American lives from 1940 through the present day.

Since 2005, the archive has partnered with Outfest to preserve transgender stories of struggle as the group continues to face inadequate legal protections, stigma and violence.

Watch a live performance by Ladysmith Black Mambazo, the Grammy Award-winning South African choral group, which took place before a nearly empty Royce Hall.

The education arm of UCLA’s Center for the Art of Performance, the program has brought nearly half a million students to campus to experience the wonder of performing arts.

The UCLA graduate fine arts programs have consistently been ranked among the top programs in the country by U.S. News.

Antonia Sanchez was able to enroll in the classes she needed because of the Ruth Anne Kenney Centennial Scholarship.

Ellen Scott is working on a book about depictions of slavery in movies and a chronicle of Black female film critics.

The Herb Alpert Foundation donated an additional $50,000 per year specifically to support students transferring from LACC.

“Any school in the world would dream of having these instruments in their possession,” said Movses Pogossian, professor of violin.

Academic librarians from across the nation will participate in a three-week session in July featuring lectures, panels, workshops and field trips.