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a black-and-white photo of the San Francisco Bay with a sailboat in the distance and rocks on the sandy shore

Photographer Chrissy Huhn documents California’s evolving landscapes

July 29, 2025

A wall in an art exhibition of replicas of many famous artworks, like van Gogh's Sunflowers and da Vinci's Mona Lisa

Is a second ‘Mona Lisa’ still special? What about the thousandth?

July 29, 2025

Sarah Gold McBride and Christine Palmer face one another at a desk, smiling at each other, conveying their close friendship

This class traces the evolution of American friendship

July 9, 2025

A group of seven UC Berkeley scholars stand in front of an art piece during their travel seminar to Senegal

Creative Berkeley scholars traverse the globe to experience international art

June 27, 2025

‘Biographers heaven’: Ron Chernow spotlights Mark Twain Papers & Project amid funding crisis

June 13, 2025

Carol Christ and Jeff MacKie-Mason walk down a hall side by side

Carol Christ, UC Berkeley chancellor emerita, appointed Cal Performances board of trustees co-chair

June 13, 2025

A painting by Chiura Obata called Sunset, Watertower, March 10, 1943, was done in ink, color and mica on paper while he was in an internment camp. It shows a vibrant sunset behind a watertower in a desolate landscape. There are telephone lines in front of the tower and mountains in the far distance.

Legacy of Chiura Obata, artist and former UC Berkeley professor, endures on campus

June 11, 2025

uc berkeley students walk by the music department's Morrison Hall on campus

‘Crucial for the human spirit’: Why the music major is booming at Berkeley

June 2, 2025

The roots of the groove of African American pop music, explained

May 30, 2025

Daniel Handler and Chanan Tigay talk on stage at an event for the Magnes' inaugural Jewish Arts & Bookfest

Berkeley Talks: Daniel Handler (aka Lemony Snicket) on reading the authors you want to write like

May 16, 2025

Priyanka D’Souza, pictured sitting on one of the wheeled stools installed as part of her MFA exhibition, before various works created for the exhibition mounted on a shelf viewable at seated height.

This Berkeley MFA exhibition probes how museums and institutions exclude disabled bodies

May 14, 2025

Two images side by side: on the left, two knights fight each other on horseback; on the right, the knight ask a woman for forgiveness after he killed her husband

Why did medieval readers kiss, smudge and deface their books?

May 13, 2025

a man in a red hat and winter gear stands onboard the green deck of a ship with red railing in Antarctica. He is holding a camera and filming something, looking focused.

In a tiny boat 7,800 miles from UC Berkeley, graduate students made a daring documentary

May 12, 2025

Why Berkeley’s Center for Jewish Studies teaches three Jewish languages

May 9, 2025

An image of the Pulitzer Prize medal shows the front and the back. The medal is gold, with the image of Ben Franklin on one side and on the back is someone operating a printing press.

Six UC Berkeley alumni named 2025 Pulitzer Prize winners

May 8, 2025

Lewis Hamilton in a white suit, Angela Bassett in a blue suit wearing a black velvet hat, Zendaya in a white suit and matching wide-brimmed hat, Gigi Hadid in a gold dress, and Ayo Edebiri in a white and coral dress, all on a blue carpet

Did the Met Gala’s attendees live up to its Black dandy-inspired theme? UC Berkeley experts discuss

May 6, 2025