[nggallery id=50] The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, best known as a melodramatic 1972 film by German director-screenwriter-actor Rainer Werner Fassbinder, was originally written for the stage by Fassbinder….
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CalArts Celebrates 20 Years of Community, Arts and Partnership
Despite the budget crisis that looms over arts funding in California, the CalArts Community Arts Partnership (CAP) program had a reason to celebrate last week: 20 years of enriching the…
Continue reading »2010 World Music and Dance Festival at CalArts
CalArts’ World Music and Dance Festival 2010, organized yearly by The Herb Alpert School of Music at CalArts, kicks off tonight with a program of solo works and ensemble pieces…
Continue reading »The Crane Also Rises: CalArts Connection to Coachella’s Ascension
[nggallery id=49] Anyone who attended the Coachella or Stagecoach festivals in recent weeks in Indio, Calif., couldn’t miss the giant origami crane towering over the festival grounds. The art installation,…
Continue reading »CalArts Student Teams Take Home PSAid Animation Awards
Two groups of students from the program in Character Animation in CalArts’ School of Film/Video and the School of Theater’s Scene Design programs have placed first and second in a…
Continue reading »CalArts CAP Master Classes Continue with Actor-Director Ed Harris
20 for 20 is a master class series that commemorates the 20th anniversary of CalArts’ Community Arts Partnership (CAP) program. Artist ambassadors, from all disciplines, are leading 20 classes and…
Continue reading »Dustin Thompson’s The Travelogues at the Tribeca Film Festival
The Tribeca Film Festival started Wednesday and runs through May 2. One of the films being screened is Dustin Thompson’s (Film/Video MFA 09) experimental film The Travelogues (2009, 49 mins.)….
Continue reading »John King’s Dice Thrown at CalArts this Weekend
John King’s Dice Thrown begins its two-day run at CalArts tomorrow (April 23-24). Based on the visual poem “Un coup de dés jamais n’abolira le hasard” by Stéphane Mallarmé, the…
Continue reading »Artist and Alumna Allison Schulnik Talks Hobo Clowns and Grizzly Bear
[nggallery id=48] In an earlier post, 24700 discovered that a CalArts alumna Allison Schulnik (BFA Film/Video 00) created a short film and music video Forest (2009) for the band Grizzly…
Continue reading »Artist Martin Kersels’s Latest Video for the Whitney Biennial
We found this video (posted above) on the Whitney Biennial website. It features artist and CalArts faculty member Martin Kersels recreating “seminal moments of performance art” on a miniature model…
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