The woman scorned is a leitmotif in literature—and later this month Annette Bening takes to the stage to star as the titular figure at the heart of Euripides’ Greek tragedy….
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CalArts Returns to the Fringe
A contingent of School of Theater students, faculty and alumni led by Jon Gottlieb, the head of the school’s Sound Design Program, is in Scotland again this year to take…
Continue reading »CalArts Animators, Filmmakers at Anthology Film Archives in NYC on Aug. 22
Colin V. Barton (MFA Film/Video 97) has assembled two experimental animation shows that will screen at the Anthology Film Archives in New York on Aug. 22. He’s curated the group…
Continue reading »Rethink Your Green Team in Finals of Inaugural Aspen Design Challenge
On Aug. 25, a team of CalArts student designers heads to Copenhagen, Denmark, as one of seven finalists in the inaugural INDEX:|AIGA Aspen Design Challenge. Organized by AIGA, the professional…
Continue reading »Past as Prologue
[nggallery id=9] More than any other publication, California Institute of the Arts: Prologue to a Community captures the essential character of CalArts at its beginning. It is at once a…
Continue reading »From Dawn to Dawn: Erik Satie’s Vexations
Erik Satie’s Vexations (1893) for solo piano starts with the middle “C.” Sounds simple enough, right? But give it a minute, and then the 52-beat (104 eighth notes) piece gets…
Continue reading »Photo Gallery from the CalArts CAP Program
[nggallery id=6] The CalArts Community Arts Partnership (CAP) summer intensive program ended with a bang last Thursday, culminating in a two-day showcase of student work in visual art, film and…
Continue reading »STROPHE Event Everything Bends Explores Improvisation on Aug. 1
STROPHE, an interdisciplinary arts organization founded by CalArts classmates Laura Vena, Janice Lee and Joseph Milazzo (MFA 08), encourages artists to explore linguistics and language in their respective disciplines. Next…
Continue reading »20 Years of Jazz with Capitol/EMI
[nggallery id=2] Since 1990, students from CalArts‘ Herb Alpert School of Music have had the opportunity to create a CD of original jazz and eclectic compositions at the historic Capitol…
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