FOUND Magazine co-creator and editor Davy Rothbart and musical accompanist—his brother Peter—stop at CalArts tonight for FOUND Magazine’s 10th Anniversary Tour. Sponsored by the MFA Writing Program at CalArts, the…
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Alumna Curates With a Name Like Yours… Exhibit at UC Irvine
On Thursday (Oct. 4) curator Claudia Slanar (Critical Studies MA 10, MFA 11) presents a new exhibition, With a Name Like Yours, You Might Be Any Shape, at the Contemporary Art Center…
Continue reading »CalArts Authors at West Hollywood Book Fair this Weekend
Even though it’s Carmaggedon weekend in Los Angeles, a number of CalArts authors are braving the 405-less city to participate in the West Hollywood Book Fair this Sunday. Among the…
Continue reading »WHAP! Screening: U.S. Premiere of Simondon of the Desert
On Tuesday (Oct. 2), the WHAP! Lecture Series presents the U.S. premiere of director François Lagarde’s film, Simondon of the Desert—a documentary celebrating the work of French philosopher of technology, Gilbert Simondon (1924–1989)….
Continue reading »WHAP! Lecture Series Returns: Electoral Politics and the Fight for Equality
WHAP!—the MA Aesthetics and Politics program’s year-long series of lectures and events in West Hollywood is back. The series opens tonight (Sept. 21) with author, historian, civic leader and political commentator Nancy…
Continue reading »From Internet Meme to Book: ’2500 Random Things About Me Too’
By Nicholas Katzban, Special to 24700 Matias Viegener’s new book is not a memoir, but something else entirely. 2500 Random Things About Me Too began with an invitation to the…
Continue reading »Janet Sarbanes Interviews Fluxus Artist Alison Knowles about CalArts
East of Borneo, a contemporary online arts magazine produced by the CalArts School of Art, recently published a 2011 interview in which Janet Sarbanes, director of the MFA Writing Program…
Continue reading »LA Art Happenings This Weekend
We’ve gotten a few notices about a number of CalArtian-involved art openings, screenings and other events happening in the Los Angeles area this weekend. Here’s a quick rundown: French filmmaker…
Continue reading »CalArtian Poet Receives 2012 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award
Earlier this month, the Academy of American Poets announced that poet and CalArts School of Critical Studies faculty member Jen Hofer was selected as the 2012 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award recipient for her…
Continue reading »CalArts Alumni, Faculty Make Art at Mount Wilson Observatory this Weekend
Solar Magnetogram, January-March, 2000. (Courtesy Mount Wilson Observatory). KNOWLEDGES, an experimental art initiative, invites the public to experience nature and science through a contemporary art lens—more than 5,000 feet above…
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