This event is in the past.It took place on June 3, 2026 at Residency Unlimited.










Two decades in the making, this biography unmasks Carlos Castaneda: the 1970s literary fraud who sold novels as anthropology and built a dangerous cult. Artist Ru Marshall and curator David Dixon unpack truth versus fiction, cultural exploitation, and the cult leader playbook in a conversation that feels unsettlingly timely.
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RU Talk: The Artist as Biographer
Carroll Gardens










Two decades in the making, this biography unmasks Carlos Castaneda: the 1970s literary fraud who sold novels as anthropology and built a dangerous cult. Artist Ru Marshall and curator David Dixon unpack truth versus fiction, cultural exploitation, and the cult leader playbook in a conversation that feels unsettlingly timely.
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