The New Original Works (NOW) Festival concludes this weekend at REDCAT in L.A.’s Walt Disney Concert Hall with three diverse performances. On the program: Meg Wolfe’s watch her (not know…
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Rethink Your Green Team in Finals of Inaugural Aspen Design Challenge
On Aug. 25, a team of CalArts student designers heads to Copenhagen, Denmark, as one of seven finalists in the inaugural INDEX:|AIGA Aspen Design Challenge. Organized by AIGA, the professional…
Continue reading »Past as Prologue
[nggallery id=9] 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…
Continue reading »The Empire Muggs Back: Art for a Cause
[nggallery id=8] In The Empire Muggs Back, Darth Vader and Luke Skywalker are fighting on the same side. But we’re not talking about a film sequel or a comic book…
Continue reading »From Dawn to Dawn: Erik Satie’s Vexations
Erik Satie’s Vexations (1893) for solo piano starts with the middle “C.” Sounds simple enough, right? But give it a minute, and then the 52-beat (104 eighth notes) piece gets…
Continue reading »Experimental Multimedia, Music on the NOW Festival Bill
Program 2 of the New Original Works Festival 2009 (NOW 2009) continues at REDCAT this weekend (tonight-Aug. 1) with two multimedia-music performances: Carole Kim w/ Oguri, Alex Cline and Dan…
Continue reading »Fellowships for Music Alums, on Each Coast
New York-based composer, bandleader and double bassist Yunior Terry (Music BFA 02) has won one of the two Van Lier Fellowships awarded each year by Meet the Composer. Terry is…
Continue reading »Larry Johnson Exhibit Now at the Hammer Museum
[nggallery id=7] Influential Los Angeles artist and raconteur Larry Johnson (Art BFA 82, MFA 84) has a full-scale survey of his work on view at the Hammer Museum in Los…
Continue reading »Photo Gallery from the CalArts CAP Program
[nggallery id=6] The CalArts Community Arts Partnership (CAP) summer intensive program ended with a bang last Thursday, culminating in a two-day showcase of student work in visual art, film and…
Continue reading »[out of nothing] Release Party and Reading on Aug. 2
The new electronic publication [out of nothing] is holding a release party and reading on Sunday (Aug. 2) at the New Puppy Gallery in L.A. [out of nothing] features new…
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