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The Map and the Territory: The Fowler Highlights a Century of Collecting at UCLA

A charango made with the shell from the back of an armadillo.

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Catherine Opie’s plan to help UCLA art students graduate with way less debt

A woman with short blonde hairs stands in a room lined with plastic bags, while holding fake products sold in the Plastic Bag Store.

The Plastic Bag Store questions the permanence of the disposable

A charango made with the shell from the back of an armadillo.

The Map and the Territory: The Fowler Highlights a Century of Collecting at UCLA

A woman in a blue short-sleeve shirt and wearing headphones puts her hands to her ears while looking toward the sky. She is in a park with trees and people laying on the ground.

Ellen Reid: A soundtrack for your walk in the park

Mr. Wash: No making up for lost time

Chancellor’s Arts Initiative funds grant to support UCLA faculty members’ arts-based research

Roger Wakimoto in a field project with students in 2010. Image courtesy NOAA National Severe Storms Laboratory.

UCLA’s Roger Wakimoto champions the arts and creative activities

A still from a video that looks like a watercolor painting of the Seattle skyline. Nate Mohler: Grunge City, 2021, 57 seconds. Edition of 1. Part of the “Painted Cities” series. Courtesy of SuperRare.

For digital artists, NFTs are promising – and problematic

Hammer Museum’s Connie Butler looks back — and ahead

Proper Hotel, designed by Omgivning. Photo by Hunter Kerhart shows scaffolding on a brick building downtown at dusk.

Breathing new life into old buildings

Visual artist and UCLA Arts staff member Verlena Johnson paints love, Blackness and divinity

Made In L.A. 2020 Artwork

See these Made in L.A. 2020 artworks now

A rendering-in-progress of a proposed UCLA Arts AEDI Center, with tilted walls, created by Morgane Copp and Wei Qiu.

Architecture students "make values visible” through design

Students playing music

Creating innovative alternatives to ensemble instruction

A piano player and performer practice on stage with singers in the backround.

Kristy Edmunds: Creating community through performing arts

A speaker on stage giving a presentation.

UCLA lab asks: ‘What does your favorite song taste like?’

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A man in a tuxedo holds an axe in front of a piano with an open top and strings sticking out.

UCLA receives $1.45 million bequest for research related to artist Raphael Montanez Ortiz

Renee Tajima-Peña, a UCLA professor and director of the Center for EthnoCommunications in the UCLA Asian American Studies Center.

Renee Tajima-Pena wins Peabody for ‘Asian Americans’ docuseries

Chadwick Boseman, left, Lupita Nyong’o and Angela Bassett at a “Black Panther” screening and Q&A at the Hammer Museum in 2018.(Rodin Eckenroth/Getty Images)

Hammer Channel, a searchable streaming platform, premieres

In Memoriam: Eli Broad (1933-2021)

Archiving healing, ritual, and transformation with spices

Rodrigo Valenzuela smiles down at a dog in front of a bookcase.

UCLA professor Rodrigo Valenzuela receives Guggenheim fellowship to fund his art

A puppet that looks like an older woman with a fur-collared coat and grey hair tied in a bun and half-rimmed glasses standing on a subway train.

Theater gets its weird back. How REDCAT and CAP UCLA shows celebrate the offbeat

Two pizzas sliced into eighths, and lying on pieces of paper, lying on plastic sheeting.

How I made this: Carmen Argote prints from pizza and health bars

LACMA gallery image

You can shop at LACMA but you can’t see the art: Why museums must reopen

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Outside scene of LACMA

Closed nearly a year, empty museums in Los Angeles struggle

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Announcing the Chancellor’s Council on the Arts and Faculty Funding Opportunities

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Fisheye lens image of an individual sitting at a small table in a small room with a plant and posters on the wall

Six UCLA arts projects receive Getty Foundation grants

Portrait of Mr Wash and his art

How a Compton artist’s lost prison painting found its way to the Hammer Museum

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Religious studies at Fowler Museum

Fowler Museum launches study of religious traditions in Los Angeles and beyond

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Portrait of Kristy Edmunds

Kristy Edmunds Presents the World

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Architecture of Paul R. Williams

A new way of seeing the architecture of Paul R. Williams, through the lens of artist Janna Ireland

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Portrait of May Hong HaDuong

Alumna May Hong HaDuong named director of the UCLA Film & Television Archive

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Portrait of Marla C. Berns

Fowler Museum director Marla C. Berns is retiring after nearly two decades

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