Disney/Pixar’s latest offering, Cars 2, opens in theaters nationwide on Friday (June 24) with CalArts alumnus John Lasseter once again in the director’s chair. The film follows the adventures of…
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Russian, CalArts Theater Collaboration Featured in The Washington Post
[nggallery id=178] During this past Spring semester, students from the Russian Academy of Theater Arts in Moscow traveled 6,000 miles to work with CalArts’ School of Theater students, and earlier…
Continue reading »Film Fridays: Flowers Unfurling by Stephanie Zaletel
The Film Fridays segment appears every Friday and features films and videos from students, faculty and alumni of the six schools at CalArts. This week’s Film Fridays video selection showcases…
Continue reading »Three CalArtian Filmmakers Tackle Family History at L.A. Film Fest
This year’s Los Angeles Film Festival, which kicks off today (June 16) includes three works by CalArtians: David Nordstrom’s debut feature Sawdust City, Kelvin Kyung Kun Park’s feature-length documentary Cheonggyecheon…
Continue reading »‘Capitalizing on Current Fears’: Performance-Installation by Lars Jan
In a live, multimedia performance, Lars Jan (Theater MFA 08) and the Early Morning Opera invite Los Angeles to witness A Suicide Bombing by Invitation Only. The work—which runs tomorrow…
Continue reading »CalArtians to Convert Warehouse into Gallery for 2011 MFA Art and Photo Grad Show
[nggallery id=177] On June 25, 36 School of Art MFA graduates present works in a culmination exhibition of their CalArts careers. The 2011 MFA Art and Photo Grad Show is…
Continue reading »International Theater Festival Puts LA on the RADAR
[nggallery id=176] RADAR L.A.—an international festival of contemporary theater—runs this week (June 14-19) to coincide with the Theatre Communications Group (TCG)’s national conference in Los Angeles. Influential theater ensembles from…
Continue reading »Film Fridays: Bermuda by Calvin Frederick
The Film Fridays segment appears every Friday and features films and videos from students, faculty and alumni of the six schools at CalArts. Today, we inaugurate our new Film Fridays…
Continue reading »Get ‘Partched’ at REDCAT with At the Edge of the World
This Friday and Saturday, the ensemble Partch returns to REDCAT to perform works on instruments by the celebrated, inventive composer from whom it takes its name: Harry Partch (1901-1974). The…
Continue reading »Tim Burton Retrospective Arrives at LACMA
[nggallery id=175] It’s been almost two years since the debut of artist-director Tim Burton‘s (Film/Video 79) retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Now, the traveling exhibition…
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