The Henry J. Bruman Summer Chamber Music Festival is dedicated to introducing chamber music to new audiences by offering performances free of charge. Powell Library’s magnificent rotunda offers live and warm acoustics that inspire performers, and provides an intimate connection between the public and the musicians. This unique stage-less setting is reminiscent of chamber music’s…

Throughout my Karmiole Fellowship at the Clark Library, my project looked at recent scholarship’s great strides in fusing theoretical and historical works in the realm of disability from an early modern archival point of view. Such work focuses on the various systematic implications of authors, characters, dialogic, devices, illustrations, concerning diminishment, the or loss of…

At the recent conference “Archive and Theory: The Future of Anglo-American Early Modern Disability Studies,” Dr. Megan Peiser and Emily D. Spunaugle (Oakland Univesity, Rochester, MI) presented their collaborative research on the Marguerite Hicks Collection, which consists of books and pamphlets by and about British women writers from the 17–19th centuries. Their presentation, “The Marguerite Hicks Collection:…

The Center and Clark thank the following for their generous support during 2022–2023: Major Supporters Dr. Paul Chrzanowski Colburn Foundation Dr. Patricia Bates Simun and Mr. Richard V. Simun Memorial Fund Professor Emeritus Nathaniel Grossman J. Paul Getty Trust Penny and Ed Kanner* Stephen A. Kanter, M.D.* Kenneth Karmiole Virginia F. and Dr. Lawrence Kruger…

The Center offers a broad range of graduate and post-doctoral fellowships to support research within the Clark Library’s collections and beyond. Applications for research fellowships during the 2023–24 academic year are now open and submissions will be accepted until this year’s deadline of February 1, 2023. Fellowships offered this year include our annual Ahmanson-Getty postdoctoral…

Little is known about the Virgen de los Ángeles sculptural group other than its early manufacture decades before the other sculptures and the altarpiece of which they are a part. A polychromed wood sculpture group—the Virgen de los Ángeles—fills the bottom left niche of the retablo mayor (main altarpiece) in the church at the Convento…

Flowers are a common feature of nineteenth-century caricatures of Oscar Wilde and his circle.  As part of her postdoctoral fellowship with the Clark’s core program “Victorian Apocalypse: The siècle at its fin,” Dr. Lindsay Wells examines the floral imagery of the British aesthetic movement from a horticultural perspective. At first glance, the sheet music cover…

The popularity of Iberian romances allowed them to cross political, religious, and linguistic borders. Early modern English translations employ paratextual strategies to cloak, adapt, or elevate these controversial foreign texts. “Away with your Amadis of Gaule, your Palmerins, your Mirrour of Knighthood, […] all of them such trash as is scarce worth the inke of…

In 2018–19 I had the pleasure of working at the Clark Library as an Ahmanson-Getty Postdoctoral Fellow for the Core Program “Making Worlds: Art, Materiality, and Early Modern Globalization,” organized by Angela Vanhaelen and Bronwen Wilson. I moved from the University of Venice–Ca’ Foscari, where I completed my PhD, to UCLA to explore the integration…

The Center and Clark thank the following for their generous support during 2021–2022: Major Supporters Dr. Paul Chrzanowski Colburn Foundation Dr. Patricia Bates Simun and Mr. Richard V. Simun Memorial Fund Professor Emeritus Nathaniel Grossman J. Paul Getty Trust Penny and Ed Kanner* Stephen A. Kanter, M.D.* Kenneth Karmiole Virginia F. and Dr. Lawrence Kruger…

Margaret MacDonald | June 27, 2022 A new donation of 40 historical texts from Paul Chrzanowski further bolsters an already remarkable collection of early English texts at UCLA’s William Andrews Clark Memorial Library. The newly added items—including a 17th-century parchment with the seal of Queen Elizabeth I and a handwritten manuscript describing precious metals and gems—have…

This annual festival was founded in 1988 by Professor Henry J. Bruman (1913–2005), who sought to introduce new audiences to chamber music at informal concerts on the UCLA campus. This summer we present 5 free lunchtime concerts featuring acclaimed local musicians in the elegant Powell Library Rotunda. The festival is directed by UCLA graduate, violinist …

Whispers & Legacies: a Conversation about the Clarks, the Posts, and the Palés On the photos, see the Clark Library Instagram post One highlight for all of us during the summer was Whispers & Legacies, organized and moderated by our own Rebecca Fenning Marschall. (Clark Library Manuscripts and Archives Librarian). The event was a panel…

Taking Comedia Online, by Barbara Fuchs, UCLA It has been an interesting year for a core program on performance studies, to say the least. As with so much, the pandemic necessitated a switch to virtual programming for our planned conferences (“Resituating the Comedia”), and meant that our Ahmanson-Getty postdoctoral fellows could only join us remotely….

The traditional thinking about the Clark Library’s collections is that they comprise just those books, manuscripts, archives and art housed in the historic building, but since 2018, librarians have been thinking of ways to shift that thinking to include the library’s grounds as another collection worthy of study. Though the pandemic has made it difficult…

A Transatlantic Happy Hour, by Helen Deutsch, UCLA Plans have been in the works for a collaboration between our Center and the Centres for Eighteenth-Century Studies and Early Modern Studies at the University of York in the UK. Faculty members from each institution have long enjoyed cordial and productive intellectual relationships which we hope to…