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Canvas dome inside a museum gallery
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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

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

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black and white image of an older person's face
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bloody face man holding mask and shovel
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Detail of "Queer Traffic" book cover with art by Lechevirgen Trimegisto
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Headshot of Sherrilyn Ifill
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Sherrilyn Ifill
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Illustration by Brian Long
Artist's concept illustration showing a two-dimensional collection of interacting spins in a diamond lattice.
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clean archive with documents
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Matt Perko
UCSB’s repository houses collections for research and storage; access to Native American materials requires tribal permission.
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coal plants with smoke
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two researchers on a boat
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Volunteer taxonomist Gustav Pauly from the Florida Museum of Natural History, left and SBC-LTER lab technician Darrin Ambat on a morning dive to retrieve Autonomous Reef Monitoring Structures from the sea floor
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Ruins of an ancient temple beneath a blue sky and clouds
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Tikal, in Guatemala, is among the major sites of the Classic Mayan civilization.