Art and Cultural Treasures Abound at USC — and They’re Beckoning
With four museums and 11 galleries, USC offers an unexpectedly diverse look at the history—and future—of art in L.A.
Arts showcase puts talented USC students at center stage
The evening — featuring music, dance and theatrical presentations, comedy, films and an art exhibition — was a signature event leading up to Friday’s inauguration of Carol L. Folt as USC president.
USC senior’s artwork gives a voice to the underrepresented
With commencement a week away, graduate Tola Oseni reflects on her use of graphic design, music and video to share untold stories and open the art world to previously excluded groups.
Unique collaboration turns medical research into works of art
Local artists and medical researchers join forces to create an enlightening exhibit as part of the Keck School of Medicine of USC’s HEAL Program.
Quiet Heroes — Over Eighty offers universal life lessons from older L.A. immigrants
The USC Leonard Davis School of Gerontology exhibit conveys the beauty and dignity of age, encouraging people to examine their own place in the world.
USC Pacific Asia Museum reopens with surprising Mexico-China exhibit
The museum highlights ties across the Pacific as it reopens after a yearlong renovation project.
USC Institutions Illuminate Latin American and Latino Art
The arts come alive at two showcases for USC Roski students
For those seeking colorful drawings, paintings, pictures and sculptures, this was the place to be.
USC Roski exhibition leaves visitors thinking about trees, ecology
Soil regeneration and green space are at the heart of Dirty Talk.
USC Price series sees art as social practice
‘Urban Visions’ features a lecture from social practice artist Rick Lowe and a digital media exhibition.
Performance artist Nao Bustamante joins USC Roski as vice dean of art
The work of the video and visual artist, filmmaker and writer demonstrates the importance of research in making art, says the school’s dean.
Local artist Edgar Arceneaux joins USC Roski as visiting professor
Co-founder of the Watts House Project aims to help students understand the link between art and culture.
Haunted by the history of Los Angeles
At 500 pages, Ghost Metropolis tells a tangled story as sprawling as the city itself and how it came to be.
Want virtual reality? Here’s your go-to team
Three alums offer a studio with a reputation for creating some of the most transcendent virtual experiences in their emerging market.
USC Roski MFA students show their work
Annual Open Studios event gives emerging artists a chance to shine.
USC Roski professor to be honored for advancing the equality of women in the arts
Historian Amelia Jones will receive the Distinguished Feminist Award in New York.
The terrors that haunt and hunt our very souls
Visions and Voices event attracts experts who trace monsters past and present.
Think of this sculpture as a helix of hearing
A work of art evokes the auditory research of USC Stem Cell scientist Neil Segil.
Intergenerational program turning Jewish stories into art
Three-year grant allows gerontology school to support creative aging activities in Los Angeles.
Whimsy is welcomed at The Hermitage
Author and alumnus Theodore Roosevelt Gardner II is best known for creating an offbeat sculpture garden in Santa Barbara.
USC Roski student creates art with a conscience
Carolina Caycedo, who was born in London and raised in Colombia, first explored the notion of bartering while attending art school in Bogotá.
USC Roski series to show development of the arts
Tacita Dean, Thomas Struth, Deborah Sussman, Michael Lejeune are the first guest speakers coming to USC for “Roski Talks,” a new lecture series.
New book measures museums in digital age
The book presents case studies of the five most technologically advanced art museums in America.
Course serves as work of art
A Maymester course takes undergraduates to New York City, where they become art critics and examine potential careers.