Arts
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AFI Awards Top 10: ‘One Battle After Another,’ ‘Sinners’ and ‘Marty Supreme’ Make the List, as ‘The Pitt’ and ‘The Studio’ Lead TV Honors
This year’s juries — one for film and one for television — included Lily Gladstone, Lauren LeFranc, Patton Oswalt and Thomas Schlamme; scholars Mark Harris and Leonard Maltin along with representatives from Syracuse University, USC, UCLA and UC Santa Cruz; critics Ann Hornaday, Janet Maslin and Peter Travers; and members of the AFI Board of…
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Top events for the week ahead in Santa Cruz County arts & entertainment
Bay Area-born jazz pianist Benny Green is a familiar name and face in Santa Cruz, having charmed audiences at the Kuumbwa Jazz Center for years. On Sunday, Green makes another visit to town, this one up to campus, performing along with the UCSC Big Band in a concert showcasing tunes by the immortal Thelonious Monk,…
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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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Pianist Benny Green takes the stage alongside UC Santa Cruz Jazz Big Band on Dec. 7
The UC Santa Cruz Jazz Big Band is closing out the fall quarter with a concert on Dec. 7 featuring guest pianist Benny Green, a former student of band director and UCSC music lecturer Charles Hamilton.
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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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Isaac Julien’s ‘All That Changes You’ At Palazzo Te—A Visionary Dialogue Between Myth, Art And The Future
Acclaimed artist, filmmaker, and Distinguished Professor of The Arts and History of Consciousness Isaac Julien was featured in Forbes Magazine, which hailed his “breathtaking new film installation” at Palazzo Te in Mantua, Italy. The installation was commissioned to mark the 500th anniversary of Giulio Romano’s architectural masterpiece.
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UC Santa Cruz takes audiences under the sea with ‘SpongeBob Musical’
Professor Rebecca Wear said the idea to perform “The SpongeBob Musical” came from conversations she had with fellow professor Pamela Rodriguez-Montero about doing an intergenerational production she could bring her son to. Additional coverage in Good Times.
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Isaac Julien: What’s on our cultural calendar this month
Distinguished Professor of the Arts and History of Consciousness Isaac Julien’s new exhibition in Mantua, Italy made the Elle Magazine editors’ picks for the “best design, art, and architecture happenings around.”
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Explore the history behind monsters and what scares us and why
Some scholars at UC Santa Cruz are exploring what scares us and why. The center for Monster Studies is dedicated to looking at monsters all throughout history. Michael Chemers joined us in studio to explain.
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A Postcard from the Festival of Monsters
Alison G. Laurence, an adjunct professor at UC Santa Cruz, wrote a detailed feature story for Contingent Magazine about her experience attending the Festival of Monsters on campus this month.
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Isaac Julien’s Sci-Fi Fantasy Takes Over Italian Palace
A feature story in Hypebeast spotlights the work of acclaimed artist, filmmaker, and Distinguished Professor of The Arts and History of Consciousness Isaac Julien, whose new work, “All That Changes You. Metamorphosis.,” opened at the Palazzo Te in Mantua, Italy in October.
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2025 Festival of Monsters features horror panel, roleplaying game
A feature story in the Santa Cruz Sentinel highlighted the Festival of Monsters, including an event with Literature Professor Kimberly Lau, who will discuss her book Specters Of The Marvelous: Race and Development of the European Fairy Tale on Thursday.