‘Friends’ Theme Reimagined for Pandemic Era
“I’ll Be There for You,” better known as the Friends theme song, is a renowned earworm. The music, the lyrics, and those famous handclaps get stuck on the brain long…
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EventJuly 31, 2020
The Soraya Presents DIAVOLO’s New Dance Film
Catch the latest in The Soraya’s online performance series with a screening of This is Me: Letters from the Front Lines, a dance film by DIAVOLO | Architecture in Motion…
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CalArtians Release Single ‘Make Me Forget’
Ann-E1, also known as CalArts voice student Annie Han Dai (Music BFA 24), made her US debut in late June with the release of the electronic music single, “Make Me…
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CalArtians Awarded 2020 Automata Artist Residencies
Performance and art space Automata recently announced the six grantees of its 2020 artist residencies, all of whom are CalArtians. In light of COVID-19, the Los Angeles-based Automata devised a…
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Art Intervention In Plain Sight Protests Immigrant Detention
During last weekend’s Independence Day holiday, when Americans expected the sky to be filled with fireworks, a coalition of 80 artists sent a fleet of skytypers to fly over detention…
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CalArts Collaborates: Arts and Activism Collide in WRI Webinar
On June 29, creative solutions to the oceans in crisis were showcased in “Arts and Activism for a Sustainable Ocean,” a webinar presented by global research nonprofit World Resources Institute…
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24700 Podcast Presents Radical Practice Series
CalArts’ 24700 podcast presents a new series that focuses on the Graphic Design Program’s alumnae. Radical Practice features conversations between current students and graduates of the program with distinct professional…
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Marvin Choi’s A Knight’s Tour Gets Digital Release
Written and directed by CalArts alum Marvin Choi (Film/Video MFA 15), and produced by Sara Razack (Film/Video MFA 15), A Knight’s Tour, was acquired by Terror Films in May 2020,…
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Artforum Hosts CalArtian Art MFA Thesis Exhibitions
The COVID-19 pandemic put a stopper on MFA thesis shows across the nation, spurring artists to move their projects from physical spaces to virtual ones. This month, works from CalArts’…
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EventJuly 14, 2020
Online Panel Examines ‘hyper(in)visibility’ Among Asian Women Artists
Multidisciplinary artist and recent CalArts graduate stephanie mei huang (Art MFA 20) has organized an online panel discussion with six Asian women artists to discuss how the “yellow woman’s body,…
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