This afternoon, the CalArts Fall 2011 Interdisciplinary Course Cluster (The Body Cluster) hosts Belgian film director Michaël Roskam, whose award-winning feature film Bullhead screens at the Bijou Theater at 1…
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Kyla Wazana Tompkins Discusses Eating the Other at CalArts
Tonight, the Aesthetics and Politics Lecture Series hosts guest speaker Kyla Wazana Tompkins, who’ll present the lecture Eating The Other and the Other, Eating: Race, Commodity Citizenship and Chromolithographic Trade…
Continue reading »Art Historian Darby English on Imagery and Emmett Till at REDCAT
In tomorrow evening’s (Nov. 3) CalArts’ Aesthetics & Politics Lecture Series talk at REDCAT, University of Chicago art historian and faculty member Darby English discusses Emmett Till in the Present Tense….
Continue reading »WHAP! Lecture Series Opens Friday with Sam Durant, Jeffrey Deitch and Marquis Lewis
The West Hollywood Aesthetics and Politics lecture series (WHAP!) launches its inaugural event on Friday (Oct. 14) with a program on Street Art. On the dais are: Sam Durant (Art…
Continue reading »Fall 2011 Aesthetics & Politics Lecture Series Focuses on ‘Post-Blackness’
Writer and critic Ernest Hardy launches the Aesthetics & Politics Fall 2011 Lecture Series tonight in CalArts’ Langley Hall with his talk, “Post Post-Blackness/Queerness in the Visionary 90s.” The LA-based…
Continue reading »On Dance and Social Justice: Choreographer Ananya Chatterjea Lectures at CalArts
Choreographer Ananya Chatterjea, who was named a Guggenheim fellow earlier this month, visits CalArts on Tuesday (April 19) as part of the Aesthetics & Politics Lecture Series. In the program,…
Continue reading »Aesthetics and Politics in the Real World: Q&A with Alumnus John D’Amico
John D’Amico, a 2009 graduate of CalArts’ School of Critical Studies Aesthetics and Politics program, is putting his art school degree into action: He’s making a bid for a seat…
Continue reading »Aesthetics and Politics Visiting Lecturer Brent Edwards on Jazz and History
Brent Hayes Edwards, a professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, visits CalArts tonight to discuss his latest work and research in the lecture on…
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