How do you reach an audience when more and more people today are getting their news from Google or Facebook than from a newspaper or the 11 p.m. news? That…
Continue reading »Dispatch from Beijing #2: CalArts’ Alice Tuan Talks ‘Confinement’
In late September, Alice Tuan, head of the Writing for Performance program at CalArts traveled to Beijing, China, for the Decoding American Culture in a Global Context conference. 24700 asked…
Continue reading »24700 Interview: Artist Miranda July
24700 had the chance to interview filmmaker (Me and You and Everyone We Know), performing artist and writer Miranda July today at CalArts. We caught the visiting artist in between…
Continue reading »Views from the Avant-Garde at NY Film Fest This Weekend
This weekend the 47th New York Film Festival (NYFF) turns its focus toward experimental film with its program 13th Annual Views from the Avant-Garde. Curated by Mark McElhatten and Gavin…
Continue reading »REDCAT Artists in Residency at CalArts
When their schedules allow, many artists who perform at REDCAT — this week count pianist Ana Cervantes and the Belarus Free Theatre company among them — work with students from…
Continue reading »The Sharon Disney Lund School of Dance Dean Directs Taskforce Liquid Landscapes
Stephan Koplowitz, dean of the Sharon Disney Lund School of Dance at CalArts, is an award-winning director/choreographer/media artist who’s internationally known for his creation of original, site-specific multimedia works for…
Continue reading »Dispatch from Beijing: CalArts’ Alice Tuan Writes Home
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…
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