How can the arts help bring about social and political change? That’s the central question for artists and activists who will convene at CalArts later this week for the Arts…
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CalArts Alumni Launch ‘Novum’ Lecture Series in LA This Weekend
The interdisciplinary arts collective Strophe launches a new lecture series, Novum: A Compendium of Theories, Ideas, & Explorations For the Curious and the Creative, tomorrow night (Jan. 22) in Los…
Continue reading »‘Lear/Layer’: ‘King Lear’ with an International Twist
[nggallery id=134] This week, CalArts hosts student and faculty artists from Chung-Ang University in Seoul, South Korea, for Lear/Layer, an intercultural, collaborative piece that adapts William Shakespeare’s King Lear and…
Continue reading »Faculty Portraits from CalArts’ Spring Class Sign-up
[nggallery id=133] Two days each semester, the CalArts community comes together to sign up for classes the old-fashioned way: In person with students and teachers discussing classes and options together….
Continue reading »Congratulations to Katey Sagal and Disney/Pixar on their Golden Globe Wins
The 68th Annual Golden Globe Awards were handed out Sunday evening (Jan. 16) in Beverly Hills, Calif., and CalArts alumna Katey Sagal (Theater 72) won for Best Performance by an…
Continue reading »Art 2102 Hosts ‘Dispatches and Directions’ Launch Event at LAXART
Tomorrow (Jan. 15) the LA-based arts organization Art2102 holds a launch event for the compendium Dispatches and Directions: On Artist-Run Organizations in Los Angeles. Edited by Ronni Kimm and Jesse…
Continue reading »‘Radical Light’ Book Tour and Screening Series Continues Through LA
[nggallery id=132] Steve Anker, Kathy Geritz and Steve Seid, co-editors of the compendium Radical Light: Alternative Film and Video in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1945–2000, continue to bring Bay…
Continue reading »‘The A.W.A.R.D. Show!’ Opens REDCAT’s Winter Season
[nggallery id=131] The A.W.A.R.D. Show! at REDCAT this week puts the f-u-n back in “public funding.” Brought to Los Angeles by the New York-based Joyce Theater Foundation, regional choreographers will…
Continue reading »Atta Boy Takes on Domestic and International Terrorism at Wild Project Theater in NYC
Atta Boy, a play written and directed by CalArts grad Brian Bauman (Theater MFA 06), opens this week at Wild Project performance space in New York City’s East Village. The…
Continue reading »Filmmaker James Benning’s RR Makes its Los Angeles Debut on Sunday
School of Film/Video faculty member James Benning’s film RR (2007)—which makes its Los Angeles debut on Sunday, Jan. 9— was lauded by the Film Society of Lincoln Center’s Film Comment…
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