[nggallery id=180] Tom Leeser, director of the Center for Integrated Media at CalArts, has developed a special connection with a school in Nepal. In fact, he’s made the 8,000-mile journey…
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Pop Art Meets High Fashion in Marco Morante’s Designs
Marco Morante’s (Theater BFA 02) designs have become de rigeur among Hollywood’s “it”crowd. Often found on the red carpet, in music videos, commercials or inside pages of People magazine and…
Continue reading »Reunited: Former CalArts Student and Teacher Reconnect after 20 Years
A feature in the latest issue of CalArts magazine, draws excerpts from a mini-reunion between Assistant Dean of The Sharon Disney Lund School of Dance, instructor Laurence Blake, who will…
Continue reading »Dog Star Orchestra: Experimental Music in [Sometimes] Experimental Spaces
The Dog Star Orchestra, led by composer and CalArts faculty member Michael Pisaro, performs a series of concerts each summer that highlight experimental music in surprising locations. Last year the…
Continue reading »Sam Anderson Electrifies Rogue Machine’s Blackbird
David Harrower’s play Blackbird made its Los Angeles premiere earlier this month at Rogue Machine inside Theatre/Theater in Los Angeles, and Sam Anderson—known to millions as the good-hearted, yet hapless…
Continue reading »Film Fridays: MOTH, an Opera
The Film Fridays segment appears every Friday and features films and videos from students, faculty and alumni of the six schools at CalArts. Today’s Film Fridays selection is a trailer…
Continue reading »Ruscha Takes on Kerouac at the Hammer Museum
[nggallery id=179] Stories surround Jack Kerouac’s On the Road, a novel inspired by jazz- and drug-fueled road trips with friends. Considered one of the defining works of the Beat Generation,…
Continue reading »John Lasseter Talks Cars 2 Opening
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…
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 »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…
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