Above: Trailer for ‘The Temptation of St. Antony.’ By Luke Martin The 2015 LA Stage Alliance Ovation Awards nominees were recently announced, highlighting the vibrancy of the Los Angeles theater community. The only…
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EventOctober 7, 2015
Armen Avanessian, a noted Berlin-based writer and philosopher, serves as this year’s visiting faculty member for the Aesthetics & Politics (A&P) program at CalArts. Traditionally, A&P visiting faculty are scholars and/or artists…
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EventOctober 4 - November 15, 2015
Above: ‘Hopscotch, Chapter 1.’ After the success of The Industry’s Invisible Cities, a 2013 site-specific work which staged Italo Calvino’s eponymous 1972 novel at the iconic Los Angeles Union Station, the experimental…
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ReleaseSeptember 29, 2015
Tonight (Sept. 29), Skylight Books (located in the Los Feliz neighborhood of Los Angeles) hosts the release of Deep Dark Fears, a collection of 100 illustrated “deep dark fears” by CalArts Character…
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EventSeptember 26, 2015
By Luke Martin On Saturday (Sept. 26) at 8 pm, CalArts hosts a farewell concert in honor of composition faculty Barry Schrader, who retires at the end of the 2015-16…
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EventSeptember 23, 2015
Above: Amy Knoles performs at REDCAT. Tomorrow (Sept. 23), Trepany House at the Steve Allen Theater in Hollywood presents an evening of experimental music featuring Banetoriko, Telecaves and The Herb Alpert School…
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EventSeptember 17 - 19, 2015
by Luke Martin As part of this weekend’s BAM Next Wave Festival in Brooklyn, New York, the Los Angeles-based Timur and the Dime Museum performs Collapse, a post-ecological requiem for the natural world, which humanity…
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EventSeptember 20 - October 30, 2015
Terrain Biennial, an international exhibition of site specific art made for front yards, balconies and porches, includes works by two CalArts alumni in the Terrain Biennial West edition at two homes in Los…
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The lobotomy is a neurosurgical operation in which doctors cut white matter, in essence disconnecting the tissue that acts as a switchboard between emotions and actions. It was used as an alternative…
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On Sept. 15, CalArts ventures into the world of video game design through a new cluster of classes offered through Coursera, the world’s largest online education provider. Several courses will…
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