Arts
April 7, 2026 3:27 p.m.
Pictured is the art video installation “The Sea Around Us.” Created by Rebeca Méndez, a professor in the Department of Design Media Arts, the exhibit was inspired by Rachel Carson’s 1951 book of the same name. (Courtesy of Rebeca Méndez)
This post was updated April 9 at 8:25 p.m.
Submerged in the ocean, an Indigenous woman lifts a luminous abalone shell to her face – hinting at a bond older than memory.
By Presley Liu
Arts
March 31, 2026 12:31 p.m.Historical Ballroom Dance club swings into history with dance lessons for students
This post was updated March 31 at 9:41 p.m.
From swing dancing to Austen, the Historical Ballroom Dance Club offers students exciting ways to engage with historical dance scenes.
By Joylynn Lee
Arts
March 13, 2026 10:05 a.m.Art History Undergraduate Student Association blends learning, community-building
UCLA’s Art History Undergraduate Student Association is painting a colorful community for art history lovers.
AHUSA is a student-led club dedicated to exploring art history through discussion, faculty speakers and gallery visits.
By Brooke Reilly
Arts
March 13, 2026 9:34 a.m.‘ICE Out: Arte en Resistencia’ exhibit demonstrates power of speech in art
Some exhibits aren’t made for looking at, but rather for looking back.
On Tuesday, the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center Library transformed into a gallery. The Center for the Study of International Migration and the Chicano Studies Research Center Library filled the space with murals, paintings, photography, music and a community that showed up to heal.
By Alexis Coffee
Arts
March 8, 2026 8:45 p.m.LA Opera’s ‘Akhnaten’ slowly submerges viewers in sound, detailed visuals
As an audience member accurately put it, “Akhnaten” is quite a trip.
Curtains rose on the LA Opera’s newest masterpiece at Dorothy Chandler Pavilion Feb. 28, where it will remain until its sweeping finale March 22.
By Eleanor Meyers
Arts
March 3, 2026 6:58 p.m.‘Virtue and Vice’ art exhibit explores messages of morality through drawings
This post was updated March 5 at 8:43 p.m.
Find “Virtue and Vice” at the Getty Center this spring.
“Virtue and Vice: Allegory in European Drawing” is on display at the Getty from March 3 to June 7.
By Julia Kinion
Arts
Feb. 26, 2026 11:56 a.m.UCLA’s Rapid Fire improv troop serves up on-the-fly laughs to Westwood audiences
This post was updated March 1 at 8:08 p.m.
The lights come up in a Westwood apartment, and 11 Bruins solemnly rise around the cornucopia, but there is no Katniss in sight – and no script.
By Emily Berkowitz
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