[nggallery id=218] San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI) opens its latest exhibition, Oceans and Campfires: Allan Sekula and Bruno Serralongue, today (Nov. 30) in the Walter and McBean Galleries on the…
Continue reading »Percussionist Gregg Bendian to Conduct Workshop and Perform at CalArts
On Dec. 6 and 7, The Herb Alpert School of Music at CalArts hosts jazz percussionist and composer Gregg Bendian for a workshop and concert featuring the CalArts Percussion Ensemble….
Continue reading »Photo Gallery: New Art Studios Open At CalArts
[nggallery id=”209″] This fall, the School of Art at CalArts opened a new building that provides 16 much-needed studio spaces for its student artists. BFA 4 Art students settled into…
Continue reading »CalArts Student Puppeteer Pulls Strings on The Muppets
[nggallery id=217] With the feature film The Muppets opening nationwide this week, puppeteer Chase Woolner, a fourth-year BFA student in CalArts’ School of Theater, can cross another item off his…
Continue reading »One of the Decade’s ‘Best Avant-Garde Films’ Began as a CalArts Thesis
Filmmaker Travis Wilkerson’s (Film/Video MFA 01) CalArts thesis documentary, An Injury to One—about the 1917 lynching of a union organizer—was released on DVD last month by Icarus Films. The film…
Continue reading »Guitarist Mike Keneally Premieres New Piece with 52-Piece CalArts Orchestra at REDCAT
Legendary guitarist Mike Keneally, known as the former “stunt guitarist” and keyboard virtuoso in Frank Zappa’s final touring band, brings a new composition for guitar, electric piano and a 52-piece…
Continue reading »Boxing Bout In the Jungle of Cities Opens Tonight
In the Jungle of Cities, a play written by legendary playwright and German modernist Bertolt Brecht, tells the story of a battle of life and death between two metaphorical boxers…
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…
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