Arts + Culture

UCLA design media arts faculty and alumni share their thoughts on the crypto-art craze.

During a fractured release year, there was progress in gender and racial representation in all key categories, but disparities in budgets.

Deborah Nadoolman Landis, founding director of the David C. Copley Center for the Study of Costume Design, will moderate the April 24 event.

UCLA had more faculty honored than any other university.

The distinguished professor in the UCLA Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance will deliver the 129th Faculty Research Lecture.

From film screenings to data visualization classes to undergraduate research week, the library will be hosting a wide variety of virtual events.

As the museum prepares to reopen, its chief curator reflects on the lessons learned during a challenging year.

Ramón is the co-founder and co-author of the annual Hollywood Diversity Report, first record of the industry’s progress around gender and racial diversity.

UCLA Professor David Shorter’s Archive of Healing is one of the largest databases of medicinal folklore from around the world.

Architect Karin Liljegren believes finding use for empty ground-floor commercial space will help revive downtown Los Angeles.

The PEER Lab will host a series of free virtual events beginning April 29.

The messages kids glean from TV can influence their attitudes and behaviors as they grow into their teenage years and beyond, UCLA psychologists say.

A creative response to COVID-19, ‘this body is so impermanent …’ was made by artists as a call to learn and heal together.

Some of the renderings resembled a town hall, or a laboratory building, or even a busy train station where people are moving and congregating.

Filmmaker Ann Kaneko found connections between Indigenous communities, the camp and their shared experience of forced removal.

Ridley was the first woman to chair the modern incarnation of UCLA’s Academic Senate and only the third woman to become a full professor in UCLA’s English department.

Johnson, a student affairs officer in the architecture and urban design department, has also written a children’s book starring her son.

Redmond lent her voice to a four-part documentary series called “By Whatever Means Necessary: The Times of ‘Godfather of Harlem.’”

Professors Maite Zubiaurre and Kristy Guevara-Flanagan hope their film about searching for those lost in the desert will change immigration policy.

Rawls, a 2020–2021 UC Regents professor, will explore themes that inform his research into stop-motion filmmaking.

UCLA alumna Janna Ireland finds hidden beauty in her book “Regarding Paul R. Williams: A Photographer’s View.”

In recognition of Black History Month, we highlight this special collection.

Feature films, shorts and discussions highlight Asian American artists and themes of history, struggle and joy.

The financial awards will cover research and planning for “Pacific Standard Time” projects, which will debut in 2024.

Brown, who taught at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television from the late 90s through 2014, died Jan. 19 from COVID-19 complications.