Art
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(Fore)playing with Fire
Stephens, Sprinkle’s longtime partner, is an artist and art professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz. The couple didn’t originate the ecosexuality term, but have framed much of their recent work around “shifting the idea of Earth as mother to Earth as lover,” Stephens says.
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The Art World Chooses Its Favorite Films About Artists
Acclaimed artist, filmmaker, and Distinguished Professor of The Arts and History of Consciousness Isaac Julien contributed an appreciation of Derek Jarman’s film “Caravaggio” (1986) to a feature story about films with artists as protagonists.
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Making Problems Sexy
Santa Cruz filmmakers Beth Stephens and Annie Sprinkle released their latest film, the third in an Ecosexual/Environmental trilogy. Stephens is a professor of art at UC Santa Cruz. Additional coverage in the Santa Cruz Sentinel.
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Loving fire with fire: Humor, horniness and happiness inhabit post-CZU film
Well-known performance artists and filmmakers Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens interpret their close encounter with the 2020 CZU fire with a new taboo-busting film that puts the fires into the context of “ecosexuality.”
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New exhibit combines art and climate science, Monterey courts international visitors
The Institute of Arts and Sciences at UC Santa Cruz recently opened a new exhibition, Weather and the Whale. It uses art as a medium to explain how weather patterns affect the aquatic mammals and the environment.
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Isaac Julien’s gorgeous shots reclaim authorship of history
Filmmaker’s first major Bay Area exhibition beholds Harlem Renaissance queer culture, James Baldwin, blaxploitation.
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The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco Raise a Record-Breaking Sum for Exhibitions and Education
At the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco Annual Gala on April 10, $1.7 million were raised the largest sum ever for a single FAMSF event, all to benefit exhibition and educational programming for the de Young and Legion of Honor. This includes the de Young’s most recent exhibition, I Dream a World, a multimedia collection from…
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Video games are spotty at getting Black hair right. Black artists are forging ahead to fix that
Normalizing Black hair fosters ‘a better ecosystem,’ says game designer