Arts + Culture

The center is the first of its kind, dedicated solely to advancing the power of entertainment and performing arts to inspire social change.

With an office full of antique projectors known as “magic lanterns” and a conviction to retell media history, Erkki Huhtamo has pioneered the field of media archaeology.

Digital media artist Refik Anadol and UCLA design students will produce an explosion of images aligned with the gestures and body language of LA Philharmonic conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen.

That most people have never heard of Hatshepsut — a pharaoh of ancient Egypt, who was the greatest female ruler of the ancient world — is emblematic of the challenges women have always faced in politics, writes UCLA Egyptologist Kara Cooney.

UCLA’s William Andrews Clark Memorial Library urges you to consult a 1665 treatise on the seven signs that witchcraft or necromancy is behind your ailments.

Actor Henry Winkler, who played “The Fonz” on the long-running sitcom “Happy Days,” recently talked with UCLA students about the process he goes through in co-authoring the popular “Hank Zipzer” series of children’s books.

The star-studded fundraiser featured tributes to artist Mark Bradford, musician Joni Mitchell and a performance by pop singer Sia.

“Round Trip: Bicycling Asia Minor, 1891” opens Dec. 14 and features 42 black-and-white photos from the historic trip.

After 10 years of research at UCLA, the first mobile website to function as a storytelling trail guide to help people explore the past, present and future of certain downtown L.A. neighborhoods —  as they walk, bike or skateboard in those locations — was unveiled.

At a “Thinking L.A.” event copresented by UCLA and Zocalo Public Square, a panel that included two UCLA professors discuss the transformation of downtown L.A. and whether it lives up to the current hype.

A $2.5 million gift from Tadashi Yanai will help transform UCLA’s Department of Asian Languages and Cultures into one of the world’s leading centers for the study of Japanese literature and culture.

Natividad “Nati” Cano, Grammy-winning mariachi leader and former director of the Music of Mexico Ensemble at UCLA, died Oct. 3. Cano played a major role in bringing mariachi music from local cafes to concert halls around the world.

In a new mainstream biography, Kara Cooney sets out to rehabilitate the image of the pharaoh Hatshepsut, a woman whose successes were later erased or reassigned to male forebears.

The Center for the Art of Performance is presenting a week-long interactive art installation on Royce Quad to build understanding between veterans and civilians. It’s being offered in conjunction with a multimedia theatrical production, “Basetrack Live.”

The UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television’s 2014-15 theater season features 13 events, including The Two Cities Project, and the Francis Ford Coppola One Act Marathon.

From concerts by guest performers and student ensembles to stunning exhibitions, the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture has more than 75 public events coming up this quarter.

Outreach around the study includes a Twitter campaign seeking thoughts on the importance of diversity on TV and in film.

‘Robert Heinecken: Object Matter,’ which runs from Oct. 3 through Jan. 18, captures his eclectic body of work that transformed photography from an instrument of reportage to a tool for deconstructing social norms.

In his latest documentary, “Bitter Honey,” UCLA anthropologist Robert Lemelson tracks the abuses suffered by wives trapped in polygamous marriages.

The Fowler Museum at UCLA presents "World Share: Installations by Pascale Marthine Tayou," a large-scale immersive environment that combines the artist's sculpture, drawings and poetry with Fowler artworks and recorded sound.

Gerald Wilson, 96, a music legend who enlivened packed jazz history classes at UCLA with his memories of working with Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Ray Charles and other jazz icons, died Sept. 8 at his home in Los Angeles two weeks after contracting pneumonia.

UCLA professor Jennifer Steinkamp won a national award for ‘Murmuration,’ her video installation in a Long Beach courthouse that was inspired by decision making, Egyptian mythology and the motions of flocking birds.

UCLA Chancellor Gene Block welcomed approximately 900 people to Royce Hall Tuesday night for the Los Angeles premiere of “Forgotten Four: The Integration of Pro Football.”

A Q&A with Allison Carruth, associate professor of English at UCLA, who is helping to lead a massive effort that launches this Saturday to draw the public to the Los Angeles River.

Directing graduate student Mark Columbus' short coming-of-age film will screen at the 41st annual Telluride Film Festival.