Sublevel, an online publication devoted to the “nexus of literature, poetics, art, criticism, philosophy, culture and politics” and housed within CalArts MFA Creative Writing Program, released its second issue, “The Speculative,”…
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EventFebruary 16 - 18, 2018
CalArts’ Critical Studies faculty member Norman Klein has two events this weekend. On Friday (Feb. 16), the College of Creative Studies Gallery at the University of California, Santa Barbara hosts Klein in…
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CalArts Mi Gente kicks off the first-ever CalArts Latin Festival this month. The week-long event gives attendees the chance to experience and celebrate Latin American arts and culture with works from students,…
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EventFebruary 15 - 16, 2018
Earlier this month, CalArts announced that poet and scholar Kevin Young had been selected as the Katie Jacobson Writer-in-Residence for 2018. As part of the residency, Young will conduct workshops…
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EventJanuary 24, 2018
This Spring, CalArts welcomes back respected gender theorist and philosopher Judith Butler as Theorist in Residence in the School of Critical Studies’ Aesthetics and Politics program. She will be delivering…
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CalArts School of Critical Studies faculty Janet Sarbanes recently received a grant from The Creative Capital | Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant Program for her essay, Reframing the House of…
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Mariángeles Soto-Díaz’s (Critical Studies MA 09) Unconfirmed Makeshift Museum (UMM), one of the exhibitions included in the Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA initiative, closes this weekend at Klowden Mann Gallery in Culver…
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Author and filmmaker Chris Kraus visited CalArts on Oct. 12 as part of the Writing Now Reading Series hosted by CalArts MFA Writing Program. Kraus, best known for her books…
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EventOctober 20, 2017
The West Hollywood Aesthetics and Politics (WHAP!) Lecture Series, co-hosted by CalArts MA Program in Aesthetics and Politics and the city of West Hollywood, is back in full swing, continuing this…
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Amanda Beech, dean of the CalArts School of Critical Studies, had a summer full of adventures—in art and academia. Beech was in Singapore for the opening of Propositions for a…
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