The Princess Grace Foundation-USA recently announced the 2013 winners of its Princess Grace Awards and two students from the School of Film/Video are among the award winners. Thalia Fry (Film/Video…
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Photographer, writer, filmmaker, theorist, critic and CalArts Art Faculty Allan Sekula passed away Aug. 10 in Calif. He was 62. Thomas Lawson, Dean of the School of Art, writes of…
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EventAugust 12 - 17, 2013
Last week, the L.A. experimental music festival Dog Star Orchestra returned for its ninth year. The series of concerts created by composer and CalArts faculty Michael Pisaro, brings together the…
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The Sundance Institute’s new Next Weekend micro-festival is a traveling extension of the Park City, Utah-based festival’s Next section, which typically screens adventurous films with bold approaches to storytelling. The first…
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EventAugust 2 - 26, 2013
Edinburgh Festival Fringe began last Friday (Aug. 2), with CalArts well-represented in the world’s largest arts festival. Performances of Michael Yichao Wang’s (Theater MFA 13) Goose, John Michael Johnson’s (Theater MFA 15) Mask,…
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EventAugust 8 - 10, 2013
REDCAT’s summer incubator for daring performance, the New Original Works Festival, takes the stage tonight (Aug. 8) for its last weekend run with a three-part program that features a libretto derived…
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EventJune 6 - September 8, 2013
There are still a few weeks left to catch CalArts’ alumna Erika Vogt’s (Film /Video MFA 03) first solo museum presentation, Stranger Debris Roll Roll Roll, at the New Museum in…
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ReleaseAugust 6, 2013
Though they have been often referred to as a “jazz trio,” the Brooklyn-based minimal acoustic group Dawn Of Midi (DoM) should perhaps not be classified as such. Today (Aug. 6), the band—drummer Qasim…
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Late last June, CBS’s Late Show with David Letterman welcomed Fitz and The Tantrums as musical guests. The band was formed by two CalArts alumni with Michael Fitzpatrick (Film/Video 95)…
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EventJune 22 - August 30, 2013
Following a year’s worth of preparation, artists and CalArts alumnae Audrey Chan‘s (Art MFA 07) and Elana Mann‘s (Art MFA 07) exhibition, 3 Solo Projects: Audrey Chan, Elana Mann, Chan & Mann, opened…
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