Arts
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Isaac Julien: What’s on our cultural calendar this month
Distinguished Professor of the Arts and History of Consciousness Isaac Julien’s new exhibition in Mantua, Italy made the Elle Magazine editors’ picks for the “best design, art, and architecture happenings around.”
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Explore the history behind monsters and what scares us and why
Some scholars at UC Santa Cruz are exploring what scares us and why. The center for Monster Studies is dedicated to looking at monsters all throughout history. Michael Chemers joined us in studio to explain.
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A Postcard from the Festival of Monsters
Alison G. Laurence, an adjunct professor at UC Santa Cruz, wrote a detailed feature story for Contingent Magazine about her experience attending the Festival of Monsters on campus this month.
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Isaac Julien’s Sci-Fi Fantasy Takes Over Italian Palace
A feature story in Hypebeast spotlights the work of acclaimed artist, filmmaker, and Distinguished Professor of The Arts and History of Consciousness Isaac Julien, whose new work, “All That Changes You. Metamorphosis.,” opened at the Palazzo Te in Mantua, Italy in October.
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2025 Festival of Monsters features horror panel, roleplaying game
A feature story in the Santa Cruz Sentinel highlighted the Festival of Monsters, including an event with Literature Professor Kimberly Lau, who will discuss her book Specters Of The Marvelous: Race and Development of the European Fairy Tale on Thursday.
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Making Problems Sexy
Santa Cruz filmmakers Beth Stephens and Annie Sprinkle released their latest film, the third in an Ecosexual/Environmental trilogy. Stephens is a professor of art at UC Santa Cruz. Additional coverage in the Santa Cruz Sentinel.
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Mantua, Isaac Julien at Palazzo Te: world premiere of All That Changes You. Metamorphosis
Finestre sull’Arte, a leading newspaper covering ancient and contemporary art, featured All That Changes You. Metamorphosis, the new installation by Sir Isaac Julien, UC Santa Cruz Distinguished Professor of The Arts and History of Consciousness.
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Isaac Julien Stages a Sci-Fi Epic in a Renaissance Pleasure Palace
Distinguished Professor of the Arts and History of Consciousness Isaac Julien’s new artwork, “All That Changes You. Metamorphosis” which opened this month at Palazzo Te in Mantua, Italy, was featured in an ArtNews story.
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UC Santa Cruz arts division hires new faculty for 2025-26 academic year
Assistant professor Clementine Bordeaux will be teaching the history of art and visual culture class. Jonaya Kemper, assistant professor, will be teaching performance, play and design, and creative technologies.
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UC Santa Cruz’s ‘Festival of Monsters’ blends scholarship and scares this October
The Festival of Monsters returns to Santa Cruz in October. It’s a celebration of horror and theory hosted by UC Santa Cruz’s Center for Monster Studies. This season also marks the arrival on campus of two new philosophy professors in the Humanities Division, Sara Bernstein and Daniel Nolan, whose collaborated on a project about what…
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‘Chinese Gold’ trailer to receive special screening at 418 Project
The afternoon will feature guest speeches by UC Santa Cruz film professor Yiman Wang.
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Loving fire with fire: Humor, horniness and happiness inhabit post-CZU film
Well-known performance artists and filmmakers Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens interpret their close encounter with the 2020 CZU fire with a new taboo-busting film that puts the fires into the context of “ecosexuality.”