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Red covered book titled Crying in H Mart is perched on a brick wall outside a modern white building

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Courtesy UCSB Library

“Crying in H Mart” explores self-discovery, grief and Korean-American culture through the celebratory lens of food and family.

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Actress Cate Blanchett, as composer Tar, in the foreground; her face decorated with Indigenous ceremonial markings

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“Cate Blanchett and Ruperto Fasabi.” © David Díaz Gonzales & Olaf Heine 2021 @ Focus Features, Courtesy of Todd Field.

Created by David Díaz Gonzalez, an affiliate of the Indigenous-focused Peruvian arts nonprofit Xapiri Ground, this photo of Cate Blanchett in character as Tár was produced expressly for the film and appears in one scene.

May 30, 2023

The rich ambiguity of Tár, and why director Todd Field wouldn’t have it any other way

May 25, 2023

Mourning widows helped preserve postwar German art music

Actors in costume in a promotional shot for Last Days of Judas Iscariot

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Jeff Liang

The theater and dance department will stage a production of Stephen Adly Guirgis’s 2005 play.

May 23, 2023

A biblical villain goes on trial in the darkly comic “The Last Days of Judas Iscariot”

Headshots of Benjamin Brecher and Samuel Mungo bookend vintage image of an opera playbill cover

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Benjamin Brecher, far left, and Samuel Mungo, far right, co-created the version of Gustave Kerker's opera "Burning to Sing" for UC Santa Barbara's music department.

May 10, 2023

A relative of sorts of Schmigadoon, an opera pokes fun at opera