Juliana DeVaan

1 month ago | publicbooks.org | Juliana DeVaan |Megan Cummins

Dance occupies an uneasy place in the history of American art. Movement cannot be contained and presented like a painting or sculpture, and audiences are hesitant to interpret choreography like they would a visual image. When dance is the subject of a major museum exhibition, its curators face a formidable task: They must convince the public that dance matters and demonstrate how to engage dance as they would any other art form.

1 month ago | publicbooks.org | Catherine Ramirez |Juliana DeVaan |Megan Cummins

In May of 2024, I had the pleasure of talking with Jason De León about Soldiers and Kings: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling at Bookshop Santa Cruz in Santa Cruz, California. De León is the director of the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, the Lloyd E. Cotsen Endowed Chair of Archaeology, and a professor of anthropology and Chicana/o and Central American studies at the University of California, Los Angeles.