Arts + Culture

The daylong event will explore the shifting paradigm of storytelling, emerging technologies and the blurring boundaries between entertainment and politics.

Mack, a longtime civil rights leader and vice president of the Los Angeles Police Commission, will speak April 4 at the annual UCLA Bunche Center-sponored event.

"ARCHIZINES" will be on display at UCLA Architecture and Urban Design's Perloff Gallery from April 12 through May 31.

The UCLA Department of Art is offering a variety of events for the public's enjoyment this spring, including exhibitions and public lectures.

A professor of world arts and cultures has set up a UCLA user-driven website where speakers of languages that could go extinct can contribute to a working dictionary, chat, post audio and video clips, play word games and create a language-learning workbook.

Twenty years ago, Tatenda Mbudzi was a young boy who delighted in watching even the tiniest bit of American cartoons from his home in Zimbabwe. Today, he is a UCLA master’s student in the School of Theater, Film and Television’s highly competitive Producer’s Program and will be rubbing shoulders with some of the biggest names in Hollywood as he takes to the stage Sunday at the 85th annual Academy Awards.

"Mandela for President: South Africa Votes for Democracy," which opens April 7, documents the historic vote that effectively buried the apartheid regime.

The exhibition, which runs through July 7, brings 125 extremely rare prints by one of South Africa's first black photojournalists to the U.S. for the first time.

In her most recent book, Tamara Levitz shows how Stravinksy's "Persephone" fiasco was largely the result of a tug of war between a burgeoning gay rights movement and the religious right.

The exhibition, which features 50 stunning traditional ensembles, explores the historical and cultural influences that have shaped European rural dress over millennia.

The 134 students taking Ken Kragen’s inaugural Music Industry 106 class, "Stardom Strategies for Musicians," are primed to expect the unexpected. It started on the first day of class, taught by the longtime music industry...

The department, which emphasizes cross-cultural research, dance and community outreach, is offering a variety of events for the public's enjoyment this winter.

In the first ethnographic study by an anthropologist of the indie film scene, professor Sherry Ortner reveals the culture and practices of indie filmmaking and the deep-seated tension that runs through the process.

Professor of geography Jared Diamond has spent decades exploring traditional cultures around the globe, contemplating what the modern world can learn from them and turning his observations into books that engage millions of people in new ways of thinking.

The grant funds a unique project that brings together faculty from architecture, urban studies and the humanities to study contemporary issues in four of the world's most complex cities.

As part of its new initiative, UCLA's Burkle Center will work with the UN and other groups to provide writers and producers with ideas, expertise and creative opportunities.

Markov, whose colorful life involved stints as a battlefield courier and farmworker, followed by a long career as a pioneering academic, died Jan. 1. He was 91.