This week, Los Angeles has been celebrating the arrival of wunderkind conductor Gustavo Dudamel, who officially took the reins as conductor and music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Composer…
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Graphic Design Students Tackle Crime and Punishment Tonight
Crime and Punishment is a one-night group show that takes place tonight at CalArts and features the work of approximately 20 current graphic design students. The event caught our attention…
Continue reading »Pixar Featured in The New York Review of Books
The featured cover story in the Oct. 8 issue of The New York Review of Books, “The Pixar Magic” by Christian Caryl, focuses on the film WALL-E and three new…
Continue reading »Arts Journalism: The Future is Now
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…
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