An experienced curator with a strong track record of higher education leadership, Steven Lam will join CalArts as its next...

For filmmaker James Benning, the coronavirus pandemic sparked a torrent of productivity. He made two films in the first month...

This week, CalArts welcomes Pulitzer Prize-winning critic and author Hilton Als as its 2022 Katie Jacobson Writer-in-Residence. Organized by the...

Before his death in January 2020, the conceptual artist John Baldessari—a renowned pillar of CalArts history—completed a final series of...

Jerry Rees (left, foreground), Eric Larson (middle, seated), Henry Selick (Film/Video MFA 77) (right, standing), and others at Walt Disney Feature Animation (WDFA). | Courtesy of the Walt Disney Archives Photo Library; © Disney Artist and longtime School of Film/Video faculty member Michael...

Jeannene Przyblyski, former CalArts provost and School of Art faculty, has passed away after a long illness. Przyblyski joined the Institute in 2012 after serving as vice president and dean of academic affairs at the San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI). In announcing her as the new provost,...

Curator and interim associate dean of the School of Art Michael Ned Holte organizes how we are in time and space: Nancy Buchanan, Marcia Hafif, Barbara T. Smith, a major group exhibition running from Jan. 28–Jun. 12 at the Armory Center For the Arts in Pasadena, California.  how we are in...

On Saturday, Jan. 15, The Herb Alpert School of Music at CalArts invites viewers to reimagine musical performance and pedagogy in Futures of Music, a 90-minute in-person experience at REDCAT in downtown Los Angeles. The performance is organized and created by Volker Straebel, dean of The...

After a seven-year absence punctuated by health issues, acclaimed actor and School of Theater faculty Ron Cephas Jones returns to the Broadway stage in Clyde’s, a play by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lynn Nottage now running at Second Stage Theater in New York City. Read More

The Broad contemporary art museum in downtown Los Angeles is showcasing nearly 60 pieces from its collection in the exhibit Since Unveiling, which runs through April 2022. Among the artists featured is John Baldessari, the late American conceptual artist known for his work with found...