School of Art

The culmination of the academic year at CalArts is normally marked by a multitude of thesis exhibitions filling the galleries and hallways on campus. Because of the pandemic, the CalArts Fine Art BFA cohort had to turn elsewhere to showcase their work. After much planning and development, the...

The Benton Museum of Art at Pomona College in Pomona, Calif., and Pitzer College Art Galleries in Claremont, Calif., open a two-venue exhibition of Sadie Barnette: Legacy & Legend, featuring new works by Sadie Barnette (Art BFA 06). The exhibitions run concurrently from July 22 to Dec. 19,...

Artist-centered publisher X Artists’ Books has released Kim Schoen’s (Art MFA 05) Baragouin, a book companion to Schoen’s video work of the same name. Baragouin is based on Schoen’s 2021 video installation commissioned by the Edith-Russ-Haus für Medienkunst (Edith Russ Site for Media Art) in...

When the COVID-19 pandemic shut down CalArts’ in-person operations (and the world) in March 2020, then-student Benjamin Gordon was determined to finish his Art MFA program. “I felt there was a lot of momentum behind my art practice,” he said during a telephone interview with 24700. “I...

The exhibition Chouinard Art Institute Benches (1921-1972) is currently on view at Marta gallery in downtown Los Angeles through Sunday, June 27. The collection of century-old artists’ benches, “present themselves as humble primary documents whose graffiti, adornment, and patina tell...

Boston Lyric Opera is pushing the boundaries of opera with its recent release of the groundbreaking eight-part miniseries, Desert In. An opera, TV show, and music video all in one, the show was created by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Ellen Reid (Music MFA 11), playwright Christopher Oscar...

On Thursday, June 17, the UCLA Film & Television Archive and The Andrew J. Kuehn Jr. Foundation present I’m Already Liberated, a talk and live virtual screening with artist, filmmaker, and CalArts alum Zackary Drucker (Art MFA 07).  Curated by Drucker, the talk explores her fascination with...