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A black-and-white photo of a young man without a shirt on holding and squeezing the bare skin on his chest with a pained expression on his face

Berkeley Voices: Art student’s photo series explores masculine vulnerability

February 22, 2024

Brandon with a mustache and glasses and wearing a hat smiles and stands in front a wall of black-and-white photos of men is a range of poses that convey vulnerability

As a kid, he learned men don’t cry. As an art practice student, he’s challenging that.

February 6, 2024

During a dynamic performance of

Can Taylor Swift shape the future of U.S. democracy? Yes, she can.

February 5, 2024

Stone tablet depicting Saint Nicholas with a scepter, and red and white garments depicting a Catholic bishop.

For the Dutch, Santa is tall and skinny. What happened to him in America?

December 21, 2023

students point to a piece of art on a table at an exhibition

More exciting than a term paper: Student exhibition highlights art, science and new pathways

December 15, 2023

illustration of a wave behind a red barbed wire fence

New podcast series explores the legacy of Japanese American incarceration

December 14, 2023

four dancers wearing black shirts, shorts and shoes perform a live dance in a museum gallery

Tender and aggressive: Student dancers embody Asian American Greek life

December 12, 2023

a sepia toned photo of about 100 white men in hats shaking hands and celebrating, some of whom are on top of a train.

They built the railroad. But they were left out of the American story.

November 13, 2023

Poulomi Saha

Berkeley Talks: Poulomi Saha on why we’re so obsessed with cults

November 3, 2023

artwork in a gallery: twelve wooden tepee poles painted white, steel cable, charcoal, rope, digital print on linen

‘mymothersside’: A tribute to the knowledge keepers in artist Duane Linklater’s family

October 27, 2023

headshots of 10 arts faculty members

Largest recent hire of faculty in the arts brings 10 gifted scholars to Berkeley

October 20, 2023

Timmia Hearn DeRoy

Theater as power: New professor brings Caribbean performance practice to Berkeley

October 17, 2023

Artist Ai weiwei

Berkeley Talks: Chinese activist Ai WeiWei on art, exile and politics

October 6, 2023

Ishion Hutchinson

Berkeley Talks: Poet Ishion Hutchinson reads ‘The Mud Sermon’ and other poems

September 8, 2023

A green-toned photo of a close up of an owl staring at the camera outside.

New season of longtime avant-garde film series opens at BAMPFA

September 6, 2023

a black-and-white photo of people at Camp Jened, a summer camp for disabled people in the 1970s. A young man carries another young man while they laugh and as the shirtless director of the program looks on and campers in wheelchairs chat in the background.

Funky and free-spirited: How a 1970s summer camp started a disability revolution

September 5, 2023