Living Pictures, written by author and scholar Polina Barskova, combines memoir, history, and fiction in a poignant collection of short pieces about her hometown, St. Petersburg, Russia.
What the Philosophy chairs, faculty, students, and staff have done in recommending this unnaming is to move our campus community towards a greater sense of inclusion and justice. This act reflects a powerful sense of awareness in the way that remnants from the past can continue to provoke...Read more about UC Berkeley’s Moses Hall is unnamed and will temporarily be named Philosophy Hall
The Robert B. Silvers Foundation today announced art historian T. J. Clark and critic Tausif Noor as the winners of its second annual Grace Dudley Prize for Arts Writers. Clark is professor emeritus of art history at the University of California, Berkeley, and most recently the author of...Read more about T.J. Clark and Tausif Noor win 2023 Grace Dudley Prize for Art Writing
Before the development of film and television, no art form but theater was more closely suited to bring stories to life. Yet rarely are stories told by and for an entire people as neglected in theater as those of Native Americans.
In Berkeley Talks episode 160, world-renowned South African artist William Kentridge discusses the process of making the 2019 chamber opera Waiting for the Sibyl. He also touches on why artists should stay open to new ideas, the complex relationship between humans and...Read more about Townsend AIR William Kentridge on staying open to the ‘less good’ ideas
The Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship (MMUF) program at UC Berkeley fosters the academic development of undergraduate students with exceptional promise in the humanities or social sciences and potential for careers that will contribute to diversity and equal opportunity in the academy. MMUF...Read more about A Q&A with Current Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellows
IN AN ESSAY on the uncompromising brilliance of Toni Morrison’s oeuvre, published just months before the passing of this inimitable writer, Namwali Serpell observes: “There are many ways to be ‘difficult’ in this world: stubborn, demanding, inconvenient, complex, troublesome,...Read more about Artforum: The Difficulty of Black Women (A Response)
A few years ago, when I was composing a concerto for myself as vocalist, I rediscovered some tapes I had made when I was 6 years old. Back then one of my favorite things was a portable Aiwa cassette recorder and I used it to make non-...Read more about From the NYT Archive: Finding the Score Within