Arts
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The 10 exhibitions to see in February 2026
Acclaimed artist, filmmaker, and Distinguished Professor of The Arts and History of Consciousness Isaac Julien’s exhibition All That Changes You. Metamorphosis was featured in ArtReview’s roundup of the top ten exhibitions to see in February.
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The five best 1990s British films you’ve never heard of
Acclaimed artist, filmmaker, and Distinguished Professor of The Arts and History of Consciousness Isaac Julien’s “Young Soul Rebels” was featured in a roundup of great but overlooked British films.
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How the Grinch went from a Yuletide bit player to a Christmas A-lister
“The economy is in big trouble, our political situation is chaotic, there’s a lot of hate — it’s no wonder that we would seek to express that through the embodiment of a monster like the Grinch,” said Michael M. Chemers, director of the Center for Monster Studies at UC Santa Cruz.
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Stunning art and design books that celebrate Bay Area talent
Acclaimed artist, filmmaker, and Distinguished Professor of The Arts and History of Consciousness Isaac Julien was featured in a story by arts writer Tony Bravo about new books focusing on design and culture.
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The return of Santa Cruz Shakespeare’s ‘A Christmas Carol’ emphasizes the actual carols
Its success in that department is largely due to the show’s music director Luke Shepherd, a lecturer in UCSC’s Music Department who self-identifies as “a Christmas carol nerd.”
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AFI Awards Top 10: ‘One Battle After Another,’ ‘Sinners’ and ‘Marty Supreme’ Make the List, as ‘The Pitt’ and ‘The Studio’ Lead TV Honors
This year’s juries — one for film and one for television — included Lily Gladstone, Lauren LeFranc, Patton Oswalt and Thomas Schlamme; scholars Mark Harris and Leonard Maltin along with representatives from Syracuse University, USC, UCLA and UC Santa Cruz; critics Ann Hornaday, Janet Maslin and Peter Travers; and members of the AFI Board of…
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Top events for the week ahead in Santa Cruz County arts & entertainment
Bay Area-born jazz pianist Benny Green is a familiar name and face in Santa Cruz, having charmed audiences at the Kuumbwa Jazz Center for years. On Sunday, Green makes another visit to town, this one up to campus, performing along with the UCSC Big Band in a concert showcasing tunes by the immortal Thelonious Monk,…
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(Fore)playing with Fire
Stephens, Sprinkle’s longtime partner, is an artist and art professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz. The couple didn’t originate the ecosexuality term, but have framed much of their recent work around “shifting the idea of Earth as mother to Earth as lover,” Stephens says.
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Pianist Benny Green takes the stage alongside UC Santa Cruz Jazz Big Band on Dec. 7
The UC Santa Cruz Jazz Big Band is closing out the fall quarter with a concert on Dec. 7 featuring guest pianist Benny Green, a former student of band director and UCSC music lecturer Charles Hamilton.
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The Art World Chooses Its Favorite Films About Artists
Acclaimed artist, filmmaker, and Distinguished Professor of The Arts and History of Consciousness Isaac Julien contributed an appreciation of Derek Jarman’s film “Caravaggio” (1986) to a feature story about films with artists as protagonists.
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Isaac Julien’s ‘All That Changes You’ At Palazzo Te—A Visionary Dialogue Between Myth, Art And The Future
Acclaimed artist, filmmaker, and Distinguished Professor of The Arts and History of Consciousness Isaac Julien was featured in Forbes Magazine, which hailed his “breathtaking new film installation” at Palazzo Te in Mantua, Italy. The installation was commissioned to mark the 500th anniversary of Giulio Romano’s architectural masterpiece.
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UC Santa Cruz takes audiences under the sea with ‘SpongeBob Musical’
Professor Rebecca Wear said the idea to perform “The SpongeBob Musical” came from conversations she had with fellow professor Pamela Rodriguez-Montero about doing an intergenerational production she could bring her son to. Additional coverage in Good Times.