Parting Words from Graduating Artsweek Staff, Part 2

INCOMING EDITOR ‘HELLO’: AUDREY BACHELDER Dear Gauchos, I am so happy and honored to be your Artsweek Editor for the 2014-2015 year. I pledge to fill up these Thursday pages with clever st...
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MFA Students Debut Impressive Thesis Show

This past Friday evening, the UC Santa Barbara Art, Design & Architecture Museum opened a new exhibition called “Inside Out,” which features the thesis work of the graduating Master of Fine Ar...
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Getting Acquainted With the AlloSphere, MAT: How Art and Tech Collide on Campus

With new discoveries in the scientific field happening every day, research collaborations that bring science, engineering and technology together with the arts are currently being facilitated on UCSB...
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Drag Gets Serious: A Thrilling Show at Campbell

This past Thursday evening, Campbell Hall experienced a complete makeover as it welcomed stars Willam Belli and Detox from “RuPaul’s Drag Race” to host a professional drag show for UCSB’s Prid...
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Coachella 2013: Two Takes on Two Weekends

Weekend 1: A Love Letter From a First-Time Festivalgoer   Audrey Bachelder, Assistant Artsweek Editor   There’s a certain kind of magic that surrounds the festival called Coachella. It’s...
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Things That Turn Your Brain To Mush

A New Show at CAF Explores Our Precarious Relationship with New Media Every day we are bombarded with new technological advancements, internet trends and messages from the media that cause our languag...
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AD&A Museum Presents Four New Exhibits

Megan Fisher Staff Writer The Art, Design & Architecture Museum of UC Santa Barbara is currently featuring four new exhibitions that are open until mid-May. The museum opened the shows two weeks a...
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Foreign Films Reach Santa Barbara Audiences

Over the past two weeks in Pollock Theater, the film series “For Your Consideration: The 2013 Oscar Nominees for Best Foreign Language Film” has screened all five of the 2013 Oscar-nominated forei...
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MFA Art Student Raises Funds for Thesis Project

MFA student Chris Silva is currently working on his thesis project, 24 Hours of Le Mans, a Kickstarter-funded sculptural installation and performance created with the U.K.-based artist Benedict Radcli...
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Group Show ‘A Handful of Dust’ Debuts at CAF

This past weekend, the Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum opened their two newest exhibits of the year, “A Handful of Dust” and Molly Smith’s “Root.” Located in the downtown Paseo Nuevo s...
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