For whatever reason, some stories fly under the radar on 24700, so we’re highlighting several that didn’t quite make CalArts’ most popular posts of 2011, but are worthy of another…
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REDCAT Announces 2012 Winter/Spring Season
[nggallery id=”224″] REDCAT recently announced its 2012 Winter/Spring Season lineup, which features an eclectic mix of local and world-renown innovators in dance, theater, music, film/video, visual and multimedia work. The…
Continue reading »‘Art of the Invisible’ Class Broadcasts Final Projects Today on KCIA
CalArts’ recently revived radio station, KCIA, provides a study break for CalArtians finishing up the semester by airing final projects from Critical Studies faculty member David Earle’s radio art class,…
Continue reading »Belgian Filmmaker Michaël Roskam Screens Award-Winning Feature at CalArts
This afternoon, the CalArts Fall 2011 Interdisciplinary Course Cluster (The Body Cluster) hosts Belgian film director Michaël Roskam, whose award-winning feature film Bullhead screens at the Bijou Theater at 1…
Continue reading »Writing Alum Sam Benjamin Discusses a ‘Brief History of Porn’
There’s another side to the Hollywood film industry that rarely makes the headlines in Variety. The adult film (pornography) business generally stays under the radar though it generates billions of…
Continue reading »Kyla Wazana Tompkins Discusses Eating the Other at CalArts
Tonight, the Aesthetics and Politics Lecture Series hosts guest speaker Kyla Wazana Tompkins, who’ll present the lecture Eating The Other and the Other, Eating: Race, Commodity Citizenship and Chromolithographic Trade…
Continue reading »Art Historian Darby English on Imagery and Emmett Till at REDCAT
In tomorrow evening’s (Nov. 3) CalArts’ Aesthetics & Politics Lecture Series talk at REDCAT, University of Chicago art historian and faculty member Darby English discusses Emmett Till in the Present Tense….
Continue reading »Cultural Critics Delve Into ‘Ugly Feelings’ at REDCAT
This Sunday (Oct. 16), three authors take the stage at REDCAT to present readings that “[invite] us to examine, name and even revel in the ‘ugly feelings’ that fuel the…
Continue reading »Photo Gallery: ‘CalArts Plays Itself’ in Germany
[nggallery id=”206″] Earlier this month, more than 30 CalArtian artists traveled to Essen, Germany, to present a series of installations, performances and exhibitions for CalArts Plays Itself at PACT Zolverein….
Continue reading »WHAP! Lecture Series Opens Friday with Sam Durant, Jeffrey Deitch and Marquis Lewis
The West Hollywood Aesthetics and Politics lecture series (WHAP!) launches its inaugural event on Friday (Oct. 14) with a program on Street Art. On the dais are: Sam Durant (Art…
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