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Side by side of two posters featuring a woman in red and text promoting a musical
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Courtesy UCSB Library
The exhibit features a poster, left, for a 1970s Liza Minnelli vehicle originally titled “Shine It On” when it played in San Francisco. By the time it came to New York, it had a new, much bolder poster, and a new name, “The Act,” right.

A history of Broadway musicals, in posters

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exhibition with large sculpture
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Moe Wakai
Kim Garcia, "What you can never fully hold," 2025
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modern dancers with arms and legs intertwined
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Fritz Olenberger
UCSB's Santa Barbara Dance Theater
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Alexis Okeowo
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Courtesy UCSB Arts & Lectures
Alexis Okeowo
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close up of woman at beach
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Detail, book cover for "Unfaithful: A Translator's Memoir" by Suzanne Jill Levine, Bloomsbury, 2025
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exhibition
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Ingrid Bostrom
Installation view of "Joan Mitchell 100," on view at the Art, Design & Architecture Museum, UC Santa Barbara
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A man with shaggy hair and a beard drives a car while looking in the rearview mirror
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Courtesy Warner Bros. Pictures
Leonard DiCaprio stars in Paul Thomas Anderson’s “One Battle After Another,” edited by UCSB alum Andy Jurgensen
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water color painting of small boats arriving to shore
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Illustration by Ishtar Bäcklund Dakhil for Mona Damluji's “I Want You to Know."
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framed art on gallery wall
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Ingrid Bostrom
Installation view of "Mexican Prints: The Garcia-Correa Collection," on view at the Art, Design & Architecture Museum, UC Santa Barbara, from Sept. 13–Dec. 7, 2025.
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group of people in whimsical costumes on beach at sunset
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Jeff Liang
UCSB's Naked Shakes
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open book with Persian writing and drawing
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Persian poet Saadi Shirazi's 13th-century hand-colored volume.