Journalist, author, cultural critic and political pundit Marc Cooper joins CalArts’ Aesthetics and Politics faculty members Norman M. Klein and Martín Plot for a discussion on shifting cultural patterns in…
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Black Clock to Join Electric Literature in Rick Moody Twitter Publishing Project
CalArts’ literary journal Black Clock joins Electric Literature in publishing a major new work of fiction by Rick Moody via Twitter on Black Clock’s Twitter feed: @BlackClockmag. Rick Moody’s “Some…
Continue reading »CalArts’ Black Clock 11 in Bookstores on Friday
The latest edition of Black Clock, CalArts’ literary journal, will hit bookstores on Black Friday (Nov. 27). The biannual magazine, edited by Steve Erickson, novelist, critic and member of CalArts…
Continue reading »Norman Klein’s Bleeding Through Onstage this Weekend
The production Bleeding Through opens this weekend at Shakespeare Festival/LA in Downtown Los Angeles. Co-written & co-directed by Theresa Chavez and Rose Portillo for Pasadena-based About Productions, the work is…
Continue reading »Nothing Like You: Debut YA Fiction Novel from CalArts Grad Lauren Strasnick
Lauren Strasnick (Critical Studies MFA 05) wrote her first short story, “Yours Truly, The Girls from Bunk Six,” in a cloth-bound 5×4 journal, in the fifth grade. She’s come a…
Continue reading »Going Bananas with the Fallen Fruit Collective
Fallen Fruit, a Los Angeles-based activist art project co-founded by CalArts faculty Matias Viegener and alum David Burns (Art BFA 93) with photographer and videographer Austin Young, presents a lecture…
Continue reading »A CalArts Critical Studies Grad Constructs Stories on Top of Ruins
Cheryl Klein’s (Critical Studies MFA 02) latest novel Lilac Mines takes place in a small, one-time ghost town in Northern California. When the main character first arrives, she’s skeptical about…
Continue reading »[out of nothing] Release Party and Reading on Aug. 2
The new electronic publication [out of nothing] is holding a release party and reading on Sunday (Aug. 2) at the New Puppy Gallery in L.A. [out of nothing] features new…
Continue reading »STROPHE Event Everything Bends Explores Improvisation on Aug. 1
STROPHE, an interdisciplinary arts organization founded by CalArts classmates Laura Vena, Janice Lee and Joseph Milazzo (MFA 08), encourages artists to explore linguistics and language in their respective disciplines. Next…
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