Arts | The Current

color photograph of musician Deniz Çağlarcan holding a violin

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Transdisciplinary composer, violinist and conductor Deniz Çağlarcan

November 19, 2025

Electroacoustic composer Deniz Çağlarcan wins prestigious residency

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Iman Djouini, "Limn," hand pulled silkscreen on Rives BFK 19" x 26"

November 13, 2025

At the 2026 Venice Biennale, Iman Djouini gives language a new form

Seven women in business attire stretching the arms forward with the mouths open

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Jeff Liang

Selina Fillinger’s “POTUS” has been one of the most produced American plays of the past few years, including a hit production on Broadway

November 12, 2025

When the president loses it, it’s women to the rescue

black and white photo collage of historic American musicians

Songs by Earl Johnson & His Dixie Entertainers (background), Rosa Lee "Moonshine Kate" Carson (foreground, left) and Eva Taylor are part of a newly uploaded collection to UCSB Library's Discography of American Historical Recordings

November 7, 2025

Vast collection of historic American music released via UCSB Library partnership with Dust-to-Digital Foundation

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Jeff Liang

Installation view of "Environmental Communications: Big Bang Beat L.A." on view at the Art, Design & Architecture Museum, UC Santa Barbara, from Sept. 13–Dec. 7, 2025

November 4, 2025

Big Bang Beat L.A.: Environmental Communications and the city as canvas

Side by side of two posters featuring a woman in red and text promoting a musical

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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.

October 23, 2025

A history of Broadway musicals, in posters