Arts + Culture

The Academy Award–nominated director of "12 Years a Slave" will speak Feb. 28 as part of a new series that looks at the power of storytelling to educate and influence social change.

When it comes to influential positions in the industry, minorities and women are represented at rates far below what would be expected given their percentage of the general population, according to a new UCLA study.

With more than 60 works in various media, the exhibition examines important and often controversial sacred figures from Mexico, Brazil, Guatemala, Argentina and the U.S.

For the past 40 years, Maryanne Horowitz has tried to attend at least one event a month at UCLA's Center for Medieval Renaissance Studies even as she climbed the tenure ladder, raised three children and taught up to three history courses at a...

The Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies at UCLA will hold a symposium, "Race and Hollywood," Thursday, Feb. 6. The symposium is part of the Bunche center’s ongoing project to create a comprehensive analysis of diversity —...

A huge, historic off-campus facility gives UCLA architecture grad students the opportunity to explore how robotic technology can help design intelligent buildings.

The department presents a series of public events this winter, including lectures and exhibitions.

The department is offering a variety of events for the public's enjoyment this winter, including recitals and performances by students, faculty and visiting artists.

The department is offering a variety of events for the public's enjoyment this winter, including exhibitions and lectures.

The department is offering a series of events for the public's enjoyment during the winter quarter, including performances and academic lectures.

To visually capture life’s unpredictability, UCLA professor Casey Reas creates stunning art using a computer language he co-created.

The comprehensive English-language tome, compiled by UCLA's Robert E. Buswell Jr. and a colleague, is the first to cover terms from all the religion's canonical languages and traditions.

 Catherine Opie, whose photographs have been exhibited in some of the finest art museums and galleries in the United States, Europe and Japan, will soon be showing her newest work to people on the run.

Can music create a connection that years of politics and diplomacy have failed to build? Faculty and students at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music think that music can build such a bridge.

UCLA has the second-largest moving image archive in the United States after the Library of Congress, and the world’s largest university-based media archive.

Two prominent faculty members in the College of Letters and Science cemented their legacy of distinction at UCLA by making a joint testamentary pledge of $1 million.

The Hammer’s Arts ReSTORE LA: Westwood is a museum-led initiative to show was Westwood Village could become.

Studying the depictions of garbage in art, documenatry and pop culture forces us to talk about a topic many consider taboo and trivial.

UCLA Philharmonia, the premiere orchestra at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, has released its first CD -- reviving the music of an important but under-recognized composer and boosting public appreciation for his contribution to Los Angeles’ 20th-century musical history.

Carol Burnett, who discovered her love for acting and knack for comedy as an undergraduate at UCLA, got the best laughs as well as the highest honor Sunday at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C.

The gift, from collectors Jay T. and Deborah R. Last, includes 92 stunning wood and ivory figures, masks and tools made by the Lega people of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

To mount the "Walk among Worlds" installation, more than 20 people worked for two weeks using wire and hangers to attach the globes. Maximo Gonzalez got the idea for installation, which appeared originally in Madrid, Spain, while waiting at the...

Thanks to two generous donations received this summer, the Westwood museum be free to visitors beginning in February 2014.

The department presents faculty and student recitals and performances in various genres, as well as visiting artists of national and international renown.

UCLA's Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance (WACD) is offering a variety of events for the public's enjoyment this fall.