Alice Tuan, head of the Writing for Performance program at CalArts traveled to Beijing, China, for the International American Studies Association (IASA) conference last week. 24700 asked Tuan to drop…
Continue reading »Chouinard Alum Allen Ruppersberg Exhibition on View at SMMoA
The Santa Monica Museum of Art is currently presenting Allen Ruppersberg: You and Me or The Art of Give and Take, an exhibition that features two new interactive installations by…
Continue reading »CalArts Alum Joins MacArthur ‘Genius’ Ranks
On Tuesday, renowned contemporary artist Mark Bradford (Art BFA 1995, MFA 1997) was named a 2009 MacArthur Fellow and recipient of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation’s $500,000…
Continue reading »CalArtians Featured in New Oral Histories of the L.A. Art World
Former CalArts School of Critical Studies faculty Richard A. Hertz, author of Jack Goldstein and the CalArts Mafia (2003), has written a new book chronicling the ins and outs of…
Continue reading »DJ Waxturnal’s Electronica Roots in CalArts Pirate Radio
DJ Waxturnal serves as the nom de plume for Robert Loveren (Film/Video BFA 89). We recently asked him a few questions about his music, CalArts pirate radio and for a…
Continue reading »The E.A.R. Unit at this Year’s Carlsbad Music Fest
The above video is a performance of “The Light Within” by the E.A.R. at REDCAT in L.A. last year. Click here if you cannot see the video. The California E.A.R….
Continue reading »CalArts Alum Creates The Panza Monologues
(There’s an opening musical performance in this video before Grise takes the stage at 3m 20s. Click here if you can’t see the video.) Pooch. Inner tube. Jelly roll. Gut….
Continue reading »AH! Opera No-Opera Continues at REDCAT and on the Web
AH! Opera No-Opera took to the stage last night mixing an array of robotic and interactive musical technologies, ingenious stagecraft and multinational musicians and performers. Created by David Rosenboom, composer-performer…
Continue reading »Colorist with a Camera: CalArts Alum Robert Glenn Ketchum
Color is the primary focus of photographer-artist Robert Glenn Ketchum (Art MFA 74) His most recent imagery, exhibitions, lectures and writings on the “Evolving Perspective of Nature” address the political…
Continue reading »Going Bananas with the Fallen Fruit Collective
Fallen Fruit, a Los Angeles-based activist art project co-founded by CalArts faculty Matias Viegener and alum David Burns (Art BFA 93) with photographer and videographer Austin Young, presents a lecture…
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