About 1,000 people turned out for a memorial service Sunday for the late Roy E. Disney, nephew of Walt Disney and a founding CalArts Trustee, at Hollywood’s El Capitan Theater. Disney died last month after a year-long bout with cancer.
Rather than a somber occasion, the memorial was a celebration of his life and work–guests were [...]
In the first few years of its existence CalArts’ faculty included some of the key figures from the Fluxus and happenings circles, including Allan Kaprow, Nam June Paik, Dick Higgins, Alison Knowles, James Tenney and Emmett Williams, among others. These founding faculty members, and particularly their interest in intermedia and interdisciplinarity, continue to influence CalArts’ [...]
More than any other publication, California Institute of the Arts: Prologue to a Community captures the essential character of CalArts at its beginning. It is at once a document of the formation of the Institute, a snapshot of the cultural climate of 1970 and a political statement about modernism and design.
Prologue was a special issue [...]
