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woman sits on blue cushion on a purple rug with green walls and a purple curtain with two cameras or lights set in front of her
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Matt Perko
Professor of time-based arts Shana Moulton in her UCSB studio

Artist Shana Moulton to speak at Humanities Decanted

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Peter Finch as anchorman Howard Beale in “Network.”

The profound prescience of a 1970s masterpiece
two men in a black and white photo in the desert with one pointing out to the horizon and the other behind a 1950s motion film camera
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Archival photograph on the back cover of “Pipeline Cinema: The Cultural Infrastructure of Oil Extraction in Iran and Iraq” (UC Press, 2025) by Mona Damluji

How oil companies shaped early cinema in Iran and Iraq
Tiffany Chung in front of her map artwork at the UCSB AD&A museum
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Matt Perko
Tiffany Chung with her hand-embroidered maps in “Tiffany Chung: indelible traces” at UC Santa Barbara’s Art, Design & Architecture Museum.

Tiffany Chung’s exhibition at the AD&A Museum maps history within deep geological time
four dancers with flowy yellow skirts
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Stephen Sherrill
"We Were Light" by Annalise Evans, UCSB Dance Company

UCSB Dance Company to debut ‘Convergence’ before European tour
Four adults in farmers clothes, their faces lit, look up at a foreboding figure in a mask
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Jeff Liang
The allegory that is 'Animal Farm' examines the perils of unchecked power and privilege, the use of words as a political weapon, and revolutions that erode into regimes not unlike those they overthrew.

UCSB theater students take on Orwell’s ‘Animal Farm,’ a fable that still bites
color photograph of mario garcia with the cover of his new book

UCSB historian publishes testimonio of consequential Chicano artist Rupert García
color photograph of a grizzly bear in the wild
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UCSB student documentary on California grizzlies to screen at SBIFF
Black woman with a box of popcorn sits in movie theater
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Matt Perko
UCSB's Wendy Eley Jackson

UCSB filmmaker Wendy Eley Jackson’s ‘The Other Roe’ at SBIFF
Joao Oliveira
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Debra Herrick

João Pedro Oliveira named 2025 Fromm Music Foundation composer
color photographic portrait of writer julissa arce

Mexican-American Dreamer Julissa Arce wins Luis Leal literary award
The table of contents from Mona May's book, “The Fashion of Clueless”
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The looks May created for the film helped define a generation and solidified fashion as a key character in the story.

How ‘Clueless’ used costumes to create its characters
Jenni Sorkin headshot with campus background

Warhol Foundation selects Jenni Sorkin for Arts Writers Award supporting book on 1990s textile art
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