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In September the Fowler Museum at UCLA will present "The Box Project: Uncommon Threads," a collection of never-before-exhibited contemporary fiber artworks commissioned by noted Los Angeles collector, Lloyd Cotsen.

How did the concept of a "musical past" develop between the late Middle Ages and Early Modern Age? This question is the focus of a European research team that includes music scholars from Heidelberg University.

Famed director Werner Herzog's newest film opens with a view of UCLA's Kerckhoff Hall taken from the northern corner of the Court of Sciences.

David Greenberg (Department of Psychology) discusses the problems of labeling music by genre. It's hard to pinpoint the exact time in history when genre labels were used to classify music, but the fact is that over the past century, and certainly still today, genre labels dominate.

Some of the finest illuminated manuscripts in the world - treasures combining gold and precious pigments ? will go on display today in celebration of the Fitzwilliam Museum's bicentenary.

Millions will be sampling Brazilian culture for the first time, in person or through the media, during the Rio de Janeiro Olympics.

Next week, the University of Melbourne will launch the Creative Arts Therapy Research Unit (CATRU), the first training and research program of its kind in Australia.

Sally Munt appointed Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts An academic from the School of Media, Film and Music (MFM) has been appointed as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts ( FRSA ).

Our obsession with looking at tasty, exotic food, it turns out, is not just a social media fad. The abundance of #foodporn posts popular on Instagram may signify a longstanding fascination with edible decadence that would have been as familiar to Renaissance master painters as foodies of today. Cornell Food and Brand Lab researchers teamed with Andrew Weislogel , the Seymour R. Askin Jr.

The University's vision is to be the destination of choice for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander intellectual leaders and this includes Indigenous artists.

Joseph Mango/UCLA A scene from the opera The Center Cannot Hold. Dr. Elyn Saks, who had to revisit her darkest moments with schizophrenia when she agreed to help Dr. Kenneth Wells compose an opera about her life, sees it as a story of hope and triumph.

ANN ARBOR'A group of 23 competitors with University of Michigan connections punched their tickets to the 2016 Olympic Games and Paralympics that start next month in Brazil.

Opening of Exhibition of Works by Thomas Judisch in the Cast Collection of Ancient Sculptures on July 8, 2016, at 7 p.m. ' 244/2016 from Jul 05, 2016 Starting July 8, sculptures by Thom

Researchers into mental health at The University of Nottingham have helped to shape a new play for children.

Jack Rowley has a "dream job" at the Fred Rogers Company.

The world's leading audio researchers and sound designers will gather at The Australian National University (ANU) from Sunday to hear about the latest technology regarding auditory display.

Imperial College London and the Royal College of Music have announced a new interdisciplinary partnership in performance science.

One of the nation's foremost experts on "The Star-Spangled Banner" is Mark Clague, associate professor of musicology at the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance.

Researchers at the University of Melbourne are recruiting electronic music fans for a study exploring the connection between cravings and the "risky" sounds of dance music.

Brighton nightlife sings "Without You" for academic research It may have seemed like an attention-seeking stunt to revellers in Brighton on a Saturday night, but University of Sussex researcher Daniel Hignell-Tully's purpose was pure art.

As the UK festivals season gets under way with the start of Glastonbury today, experts from the NIHR Nottingham Hearing Biomedical Research Centre are giving ear-saving advice to festival goers.

Photography exhibition in Attenborough Centre celebrates female academics A series of specially commissioned portraits that reveal the personal motivations of female academics at Sussex is on show at the Attenborough Centre for the Arts on campus.

A violin made from a composite material that includes spiders' silk, which enables its acoustics to be customised, has been developed at Imperial.

Documentary photographer/UCLA professor Catherine Opie makes powerful images that recalibrate what we know Mary Daily Miranda Penn Turin Catherine Opie's provocative images have been exhibited at

Mark Hanauer/UCLA Silke Otto-Knapp, right, shows a visitor her new work, made up of six large watercolor panels inspired by a North Atlantic landscape near Fogo Island, Canada.

In the last few days there has been an intense debate in the media about the Art Academy, which has been described as threatened with shut-down due to an eviction notice from the city of Malmö on its current premises.

We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. You can change your cookie settings at any time. Otherwise, we'll assume you're OK to continue. Sad music can provide enjoyment, comfort or pain to different people, according to new research looking at the effects of melancholy songs on the emotions.

A number of Oxford scholars were recognised for their achievements in this year's Queen's Birthday Honours, announced on Friday 10 June.

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A University of Queensland graduate has harnessed Twitter to develop software that could help town planners design new urban areas.

From left, Don Randel, Mary Beth Norton, Ishion Hutchinson and Paul Fleming participate in the "Transformative Humanities: Faculty Reflections on Life-Changing Creative Works" panel.