Tag Archive for: arts

Head and shoulders photo of De'Marcus Robinson smiling against a light blue background with cut-out images of sharks surrounding him.

What’s scarier: A 50-ton megalodon or a doctoral dissertation?

Historic image of cameramen recording Michi Tanioka, 5, as she waits to be sent from Los Angeles to the Manzanar prison camp in April 1942.Image credit: Library of Congress/Russell Lee

Exhibition puts viewers in midst of WWII-era removal of Japanese Americans

‘BeHere / 1942,’ presented by the Yanai Initiative of UCLA…
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UCLA poised to become a world leader in hip-hop studies

Building on decades of scholarship, the campus’s new Hip…
Overhead view of Destination Crenshaw’s Sankofa Park featuring designs for works by Maren Hassinger, Kehinde Wiley and Charles Dickson.Rendering by Perkins&Will, courtesy of Destination Crenshaw

Destination Crenshaw pays tribute to Black creativity and history in Los Angeles

UCLA faculty and alumni contributed ideas, expertise and artworks…
An image of Judy Baca at “The Great Wall of Los Angeles” in the summer of 1983.Photo credit: SPARC Archives/SPARCinLA.org

A Legacy in Plain Sight: The Murals of Judy Baca

By Stacey Ravel Abarbanel In light of a retrospective at…
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UCLA Arts launches ‘10 Questions’ event series that invites the public into the classroom

  Giving community members a special opportunity…

Judith Baca named fellow, receives $50,000 grant from United States Artists

Judith Baca, acclaimed muralist, arts activist and professor…