Arts + Culture

A little-known piano in Schoenberg Hall, a gift from the estate of actor Edward G. Robinson, bears the signatures of some of the 20th century’s greatest composers and musicians.

Folklore scholar Tim Tangherlini has organized a large collection into a database that can be searched by topic, storyteller and location.

For UCLA’s spring Faculty Research Lecture, Kristal, the chair of UCLA’s comparative literature department and a professor of Spanish, will share his life-long love of the Argentine author Jorge Louis Borges.

A year-long focus will be the massive contribution of women in all art forms. The season begins Oct. 8 with “Desdemona.”

UCLA filmmaker William McDonald of the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television and Pamela Beere Briggs discuss their latest documentary, 'Something Like a Sabbatical.'

In an exhibition opening May 3, hair adornments and a contemporary film address changing ideas of beauty and identity in Africa.

The UCLA Hammer Museum is still seeking volunteers for Mexican artist Pedro Reyes’ People’s United Nations General Assembly on May 2-3.

India Carney, a senior at UCLA and a singer at major campus events, was selected as one of 20 finalists vying to win the eighth season of NBC’s “The Voice.”

“Making Strange: Gagawaka + Postmortem by Vivan Sundaram” and “The Sahmat Collective: Art and Activism in India since 1989” both open April 19.

Erika Green Swafford, a writer on one of the hottest new crime shows, found her UCLA degree helped her land a position on the creative side of the entertainment industry.

UCLA French and Francophone professor Alain Mabanckou is one of 10 authors worldwide who have been selected as finalists for this year’s Man Booker International Prize.

Students from the UCLA Lab School recently learned about the creative process of K.G. Campbell, the award-winning author and illustrator of “Lester’s Dreadful Sweaters” and “The Mermaid and the Shoe.” The event was presented by UCLA Writing Programs,

Love of punk music and a passion for activism inspire a UCLA musicology professor who studies the nuclear legacy of the Marshall Islands and plays guitar in a band.

UCLA Arts’ spring calendar of more than 150 public events offers the public the chance to experience a wide diversity of creative programming.

The UCLA Latin American Institute is presenting a lecture on chocolate and other community outreach activities to share the latest research findings on the Latin American region with L.A. residents.

Upcoming exhibition will showcase photographs documenting monumental art environments created by artists who find inspiration in their surroundings.

“The Excavation of the Prehistoric Burial Tumulus at Lofkënd, Albania” by UCLA Cotsen Institute of Archaeology’s John Papadopoulos and Sarah Morris opens a window on a cradle of civilization.

Magnetic media, which are deteriorating, make up half of the holdings in archive. To save the most significant materials that are relevant to California the archive has begun posting them online.

Kal Raustiala writes in an op-ed that the jury was incorrect and that copyright law is intended to create incentives for artists to produce new creative works, not ensure basic fairness.

Just a few weeks ago, third-year M.F.A. student Emma Kragen was concentrating on advancing her thesis project at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television. Now the emerging cinematographer is assembling waterproof snow gear.

Michael Emmerich, an associate professor of Japanese at UCLA, has translated the work of the late Japanese author Yasushi Inoue and opened readers' eyes to his compelling stories.

Video, photos, interviews and mapping tools capture the extent of damage remaining four years after the 2011 quake and tsunami. The data will help other areas prepare.

Intrigued by the question of whether Augustus Caesar transformed Rome from a city of bricks into a city of marble, as legend has it, UCLA professor Diane Favro decided to use advanced modeling software to reconstruct Rome at the time of his reign.

Bryan Kirschen has become a tireless advocate for the endangered language that is often described as the Spanish equivalent of Yiddish.

With Nimoy’s death Friday, a planned April 10 artist talk in Royce Hall has been cancelled. Refunds are available.