Address: 10899 Wilshire Blvd., UCLA Zipcode: 90024 Phone Number: 310-443-7000 Website: http://www.hammer.ucla.edu The UCLA Sculpture Garden is officially named the Franklin D. Murphy Sculpture Garden for the school’s third chancellor, whose vision was for young people to “think of art as something you live with rather than something you just look at.” Considered one of the finest collections in the country, with more than 70 pieces, this invaluable public art project takes up more than four acres of the sprawling campus’s north end. South African coral trees, Brazilian jacarandas and California sycamores define the perimeters where walkways and seating areas allow you to take in Henry Moore’s Two-Piece Reclining Figure, No. 3, Auguste Rodin’s The Walking Man and Joan Miro’s Mere Ubu, to name a few. Be sure to see the four powerful bas reliefs in bronze by Henri Matisse, the meditative Garden Elements by Isamu Noguchi and the achingly poignant Mother and Child by Sorel Etrog. If school is in session, you can grab a coffee at Lu Valle Commons; otherwise bring your own picnic. Then walk around the rest of the leafy and brick campus and you’ll realize that every college movie you’ve ever seen was probably shot here.
