Arts + Culture

A few days after host Neil Patrick Harris joked the Oscars honored “Hollywood’s best and whitest,” entertainment insiders addressed the lack of diversity in the industry.

UCLA analysis of movies and TV shows in 2012 and 2013 reveals that race and gender representation in Hollywood is out of step with the rest of America, its authors say.

While war rages in Syria, that country's people can still experience the culture and history of the region’s Mesopotamian roots through an exhibit made possible by a Kurdish nonprofit organization and UCLA archaeologist Giorgio Buccellati.

Donation from philanthropist Elaine Krown Klein will support a distinguished faculty member as well as live performance, research, conferences and other schoolwide initiatives.

With little access to arts education in their schools, roughly 4,400 local children have benefited from the expertise of students and graduates who teach as part of the UCLA's Visual and Performing Arts Education program.

These old songs in UCLA’s Sheet Music Collection show that love songs aren’t what they used to be.

In a new book, UCLA art historian Meredith Cohen shows that the rich history and cultural significance of the 13th century Gothic chapel are equal in importance to its artistic merits.

Allyson Nadia Field writes about how 100 years ago the racist film inspired black filmmakers to respond and that the film still resonates because the country still grapples with achieving racial justice.

A new book by UCLA urban historian Eric Avila gives voice to the opponents of highway construction in the 1950s, ’60s and ’70s and, in particular, in communities of color.

“Letter to Jimmy,” Alain Mabanckou’s much-lauded book, is a fitting tribute to the pivotal American essayist, activist and playwright, author of the novel, “Go Tell It on the Mountain” and a collection of essays, “Notes of a Native Son,” among other major works.

In a forthcoming book, UCLA classics professor Kathryn Morgan shows how a tyrant who ruled an influential ancient Greek colony in the early part of the fifth century B.C. tried to bolster his position by trumpeting the successes of his horses in chariot races.

A gift by television creator and executive producer Darren Star has made possible the renovation of a 54-seat screening room at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television.

A lost recording of a 50-year-old speech delivered at UCLA by the late civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. has been unearthed in a storage room and put online.

Some of the world’s most talented, up-and-coming young jazz musicians call UCLA home as students and fellows of the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz Performance.

A UCLA psychologist and her sister explain why Disney struck billion-dollar gold with Elsa, Anna and ‘Let It Go.’

The first Chicano feature film, “Please, Don’t Bury Me Alive!,” was recently added to the National Film Registry. It was thought to have been lost or destroyed until UCLA professor Chon Noriega got in touch with its creator and had the only copy of it restored.

The year 2014 featured the debut of a multi-year fundraising campaign, research breakthroughs, stunning achievements by students and faculty — and an unexpected flood that impacted the campus for months. We call that a momentous year.

The UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture offers more than 150 public events for winter 2015.

The Hammer will debut its first offsite exhibition, “Charles Gaines: Librettos: Manuel de Falla/Stokely Carmichael,” Feb. 28 on a new art and social service campus in Los Angeles’ Leimert Park.

The first major touring exhibition of Emirati art features more than 50 paintings, sculptures and works in other media.

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History has acquired objects that represent the work of world-renowned painter and muralist Judith Baca, a professor in the UCLA César E. Chávez Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies.

The new music building on campus is alive with the sounds of students learning, practicing, studying and socializing. UCLA video.

UCLA’s Hitoshi Abe is among those whose work is featured in an exhibit detailing nontraditional ways architects have helped rebuild the coast of Eastern Japan following the devastating tsunami of 2011.

For more than 20 years, professor David Gere of the Department of World Arts and Cultures has been using art and a network of artists to communicate his message about ending the AIDS epidemic around the world. Are we any closer to making that happen?

Lucretia Stinnette, a graduate student filmmaker in the School of Theater, Film and Television, made a short film about a mail-order bride from Vietnam after teaching English in South Korea to such women.