University of California, San Diegoby Lucas Perez March 18, 2025 Not since George Balanchine, father of American ballet, has a single person generated so much influence on the world of […]
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LUCAS PEREZ is a published writer, gold medal winning calligrapher, and an accomplished polyglot. His passion has always been for words. His linguistic journey began as a child in Mexico, and has taken him to 28 countries (living in three), and enabled him to study Japanese “Nihonga” painting in Tokyo—to master Chinese calligraphy in Taipei—and to learn about contemporary art & critical theory in New York City. He has a home in San Diego that he shares with his partner, but spends his time working bi-coastally between California and New York. He has written for various online publications including Hyperallergic. To learn more about his work, please visit lucasperez.org.
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THE BUZZ: Global Superstar Choreographer William Forsythe Comes to San Diego for Annual Kyoto Prize Symposium
By Lucas Justinien Perez March 10, 2025 For 50 years William Forsythe has been building a vision of the future of ballet which upends the norms and expectations of classical […]
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THE BUZZ: What’s in a name change? “The Museum of Man” becomes “The Museum of Us”
Article by Lucas Justinien Pérez August 7, 2020 After 40 years as “The Museum of Man–the one hundred-year-old anthropological museum in San Diego’s Balboa Park changes its name to “The […]
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THE BUZZ: The Allure of Chinese Materialism
Los Angeles County Museum of Art Article by Lucas Justinien Pérez November 20, 2019 China emerged bruised and battered after a decade of Mao Zedong’s self-immolating Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) in […]
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THE BUZZ: The “Living Images” of Alfred Eisenstaedt at Art Alive 2019.
Article by Lucas Justinien Pérez April 5, 2019 Trailblazing father of candid photojournalism, Alfred Eisenstaedt (1898-1995) said he preferred carrying his small leica camera at stomach level as he snapped […]
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