Arts + Culture

Ross died Sept. 16 at his home in Los Angeles after a long illness. He was 73.

The public can check out billboards by Larry Johnson in L.A.’s MacArthur Park neighborhood and video installations by Kahlil Joseph throughout the city.

Although minorities overall are becoming better represented in entertainment, that progress largely hasn’t touched Latinos.

The UCLA Hollywood Diversity Report suggests the industry must do more to meet the moment.

Artist Rebeca Méndez created a poster for the League of Women Voters and the American Institute of Graphic Arts.

The gift from Robert and Toni Crisell highlights the legacy of and artistic practice of the 20th-century Southern California wood engraver and naturalist.

Six students won Alfred P. Sloan Foundation fellowships for projects that incorporated accurate and plausible science into their stories.

Librarians and staff will share their expertise at events designed to help students, faculty and others flourish in their work and advance knowledge. 

Movie studios can expect to lose up to $130 million per film when authentic diversity is absent from their storytelling, a UCLA report shows.

This year the public lecture-academic class will virtually bring together 30 leading minds from across campus. Class is in session beginning Oct. 5.

Berns led the Fowler, one of the world’s top museums focusing on the arts and cultures of Africa, Asia, the Pacific and the indigenous Americas, for nearly 20 years.

A new film by two UCLA faculty members focuses on volunteers who search the Sonoran Desert for undocumented migrants who have died.

L.A. Sounds Now kicks off Oct. 6 with a talk between Tom Corson of Warner Records and Dean Eileen Strempel.

Inspired by Roosevelt’s Depression-era fireside chats, the Chilean American visual artist has created a program designed to address today’s America.

A Q&A with Sophia Bacino, who is entering her second year at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music.

He began teaching at UCLA in 1969 and retired in 2004. In 1995, he received the Charles and Harriet Luckman Award for Distinguished Teaching.

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.