The Ramayana is one of the great epic poems of India, and plays an important role in the Hindu canon. The story, attributed to the sage Valmiki, has been often…
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Arts Journalism: The Future is Now
How do you reach an audience when more and more people today are getting their news from Google or Facebook than from a newspaper or the 11 p.m. news? That…
Continue reading »Dispatch from Beijing #2: CalArts’ Alice Tuan Talks ‘Confinement’
In late September, Alice Tuan, head of the Writing for Performance program at CalArts traveled to Beijing, China, for the Decoding American Culture in a Global Context conference. 24700 asked…
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Alice Tuan, head of the Writing for Performance program at CalArts traveled to Beijing, China, for the International American Studies Association (IASA) conference last week. 24700 asked Tuan to drop…
Continue reading »CalArtians Featured in New Oral Histories of the L.A. Art World
Former CalArts School of Critical Studies faculty Richard A. Hertz, author of Jack Goldstein and the CalArts Mafia (2003), has written a new book chronicling the ins and outs of…
Continue reading »AH! Opera No-Opera Continues at REDCAT and on the Web
AH! Opera No-Opera took to the stage last night mixing an array of robotic and interactive musical technologies, ingenious stagecraft and multinational musicians and performers. Created by David Rosenboom, composer-performer…
Continue reading »Disney/Pixar to Receive Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival
Disney Pixar Panel: Famous Grads of CalArts American director and producer George Lucas (and creator of the Star Wars saga) will present John Lasseter and the directors of Disney/Pixar–Brad Bird,…
Continue reading »Experimental Multimedia, Music on the NOW Festival Bill
Program 2 of the New Original Works Festival 2009 (NOW 2009) continues at REDCAT this weekend (tonight-Aug. 1) with two multimedia-music performances: Carole Kim w/ Oguri, Alex Cline and Dan…
Continue reading »CalArts Student on America’s Got Talent
Tonight CalArts student Charles Dorsey (Music 10) made his national television debut on the NBC show America’s Got Talent at 9 p.m. The young singer-songwriter-multi-instrumentalist, taped his audition, but unfortunately…
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Like life, art happens 24/7. And what better place to capture both than the blogosphere? And at CalArts? As a learning institution, part of our mission is to prepare students…
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