Pacific Standard Time, an unprecedented, six-month exploration of the art of Los Angeles, officially launches this weekend (Oct. 1-2). An initiative of the Getty, the collaborative project brings together more…
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Roscoe Mitchell to Close Angel City Jazz Festival at REDCAT
The Angel City Jazz Festival wraps up its seven-day run this Sunday night (Oct. 2) with a performance by legendary woodwind player and composer Roscoe Mitchell at REDCAT. The concert marks…
Continue reading »Wild Beast Concert Series Opens Its 2011-2012 Season With ‘CalArts Capitol Jazz’
Now in its second year, The Wild Beast Concert Series kicks off this Saturday (Oct. 1) with a concert, CalArts Capitol Jazz, at 4 pm at The Wild Beast Pavilion…
Continue reading »CultureHub, CalArts Welcomes Director Joel Zwick
From Bosom Buddies Joel Zwick’s career as a film, theater and television director has spanned several decades. While he’s best recognized for directing My Big Fat Greek Wedding, the highest…
Continue reading »Altazor to be Performed in Mexico City on Friday
Jxel Rajchenberg, a second-year MFA performer-composer student at The Herb Alpert School of Music at CalArts, has been commissioned by the Mexican National University’s radio station, Radio UNAM, to write…
Continue reading »Filmmaker Thomas Allen Harris Screens Works at CalArts Tonight
Tonight at 7 pm in CalArts’ Bijou Auditorium, the ongoing Structuring Strategies film class and screening series welcomes filmmaker Thomas Allen Harris, who’ll show his work and present the lecture…
Continue reading »CalArts to ‘Play Itself’ in Germany during Rurhtriennale 2011
A contingent of the CalArts community consisting of students and recent graduates representing all six schools descends on Essen, Germany, to present new works at PACT Zollverein on Sept. 29-Oct….
Continue reading »Deep Surface Features CalArtians In North Carolina
[nggallery id=204] The Contemporary Art Museum (CAM) of Raleigh, NC, opens its latest exhibition, Deep Surface: Contemporary Ornament and Pattern on Saturday (Sept. 24). The exhibition is organized and co-curated by…
Continue reading »Alumnus Bryan Wilson Mixes Cello and Comedy
[nggallery id=203] Cellist/comedian Bryan Wilson (Music BFA 11) recently celebrated his graduation from CalArts by releasing a book titled, Cello Chords. The reference, which Wilson claims as “the only book…
Continue reading »Machine Projector at Machine Project
Kevin Blechdom’s multitrack a cappella of Whitney Houston’s 1987 hit, So Emotional. On Friday (Sept. 23), CalArtians perform at Machine Project in Los Angeles for an evening of audio/visual performances in…
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