2009 was a busy year for trumpeter, composer and CalArts faculty Wadada Leo Smith. In October, he released Spiritual Dimensions, a new two-disc set of live concert recordings, and there…
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2009 National Film Registry Selections Include Two by CalArtians
On Dec. 30, 2009, Librarian of Congress James H. Billington announced its annual selection of 25 motion pictures that will be preserved as cultural, artistic and/or historical treasures as part…
Continue reading »A Look Back at 2009’s Most Popular Blog Stories
[nggallery id=31] Since launching our 24700 blog in July of this year, our readership has grown immensely–thanks to you. Now as 2009 comes to a close, we’d like to offer…
Continue reading »CalArts Winter Dance at REDCAT
[nggallery id=30] At REDCAT tonight and tomorrow (Dec. 18-19), students from the Sharon Disney Lund School of Dance present three brand-new works by choreography faculty Colin Connor, Rosanna Gamson and…
Continue reading »New Sonic Realities of CalArts Alumnus Josh Senick
Josh Senick (Theater MFA 09) is an LA-based sound designer focusing on design and composition for theater. His current project Hamlet Shut Up, is playing at Sacred Fools Theater in…
Continue reading »CalArts Alums, Faculty in the 2010 Whitney Biennial
Last week, curators Francesco Bonami and Gary Carrion-Murayari announced, via video (above), the 55 artists that will be included in the 2010 Whitney Biennial. Among the distinguished roster of names…
Continue reading »Author Marc Cooper Speaks on Politics and Culture at REDCAT on Dec. 15
Journalist, author, cultural critic and political pundit Marc Cooper joins CalArts’ Aesthetics and Politics faculty members Norman M. Klein and Martín Plot for a discussion on shifting cultural patterns in…
Continue reading »Film Scholar Tom Gunning Screens Rare Films at the Bijou
The Unchanging Sea (D.W. Griffith, 1910) Film theorist and scholar Tom Gunning visits CalArts tomorrow evening (Tuesday) to lecture on the topic of Structuring Strategies at the Bijou Theater at…
Continue reading »Anne LeBaron’s and Douglas Kearney’s Sucktion Performed in Sweden
Anne LeBaron, harpist, composer and faculty member in The Herb Alpert School of Music at CalArts, recently returned from a futurist music festival in Malmö, Sweden, where she and Critical…
Continue reading »Heard at CalArts: the Alphonso Johnson Ensemble
There’s a daily overabundance of sights and sounds at CalArts, so every now and then we’ll capture them and post on 24700. Walking through the main gallery a few weeks…
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