WHAP!—the MA Aesthetics and Politics program’s year-long series of lectures and events in West Hollywood is back. The series opens tonight (Sept. 21) with author, historian, civic leader and political commentator Nancy…
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WHAP! Lectures this Week: Film Screenings and Discussions on Biology and Politics
The West Hollywood Aesthetics & Politics (WHAP!) lecture series continues this week with two events that explore the cross-section of art and science. On Tuesday (April 3), there’s a panel…
Continue reading »Edgar Arceneaux and Douglas Kearney Discuss Politics in Art and Poetry at ALOUD Series
With a tumultuous U.S. presidential election season and political protests around the world making headlines daily, poet-performer and CalArts faculty member Douglas Kearney joins alumnus and artist-activist Edgar Arceneaux (Art MFA…
Continue reading »WHAP! Lecture Series: Etienne Balibar Tackles Politics and Religion
In polite conversation, there are two topics that are usually taboo: politics and religion. On Friday (March 9) in West Hollywood, the WHAP! Lecture Series brings both subjects to the…
Continue reading »WHAP! Lecture Series Returns with Special Guest Nicholas Ridout
The first West Hollywood Aesthetics & Politics (WHAP!) lecture of 2012 hits the podium tonight (Feb. 22) at 7 pm at the new West Hollywood Library, City Council Chambers. The free…
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 »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…
Continue reading »Art Historian Darby English on Imagery and Emmett Till at REDCAT
In tomorrow evening’s (Nov. 3) CalArts’ Aesthetics & Politics Lecture Series talk at REDCAT, University of Chicago art historian and faculty member Darby English discusses Emmett Till in the Present Tense….
Continue reading »WHAP! Lecture Series Opens Friday with Sam Durant, Jeffrey Deitch and Marquis Lewis
The West Hollywood Aesthetics and Politics lecture series (WHAP!) launches its inaugural event on Friday (Oct. 14) with a program on Street Art. On the dais are: Sam Durant (Art…
Continue reading »Fall 2011 Aesthetics & Politics Lecture Series Focuses on ‘Post-Blackness’
Writer and critic Ernest Hardy launches the Aesthetics & Politics Fall 2011 Lecture Series tonight in CalArts’ Langley Hall with his talk, “Post Post-Blackness/Queerness in the Visionary 90s.” The LA-based…
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