School of Art

On Monday, March 16, US News & World Report released its latest rankings of the Best Fine Arts Graduate Schools in the Nation. CalArts has been placed fifth, tying with Rhode Island School of Design (RISD).  The rankings, conducted by US News between fall 2019 and early 2020, were based on a...

An artist collective composed of CalArtians will take the stage at the Other Places art fair (OPaf) on March 14-15 at the Angels Gate Cultural Center in San Pedro, Calif. The Operational Statements collective—CalArtians Luka Fisher (Art MFA 18), Sydney Mills (Art MFA 18), Don Tingling (Art...

Yung Jake, Untitled Self-Portrait 9, 2020. Oil on found metal; powder-coated steel support, 19 x 14 inches (48.3 x 35.6 cm) | Image courtesy of Steve Turner Gallery Steve Turner Gallery presents Cartoons Too, a solo exhibition by Yung Jake, also known as Jake Patterson (Art BFA 12), running...

Rodney McMillian’s (Art MFA 02) solo show Recirculating Goods opens today (Thursday, Feb. 27) at Petzel Gallery in New York, and runs through May 2, 2020. The exhibition marks McMillian’s debut with Petzel, which also inaugurates the gallery’s second floor addition.  Recirculating...

On Thursday, Feb. 27, Regen Projects presents a new exhibition of works by Catherine Opie (Art MFA 88) titled Rhetorical Landscapes, the artist’s 10th solo exhibition at the gallery.  Rhetorical Landscapes continues Opie’s research into “current American political landscape and the moving...

João Ribas has been appointed executive director of Roy and Edna Disney CalArts Theater in downtown Los Angeles. | Photo: Filipe Braga This morning (Feb. 25, 2020), CalArts announced the appointment of João Ribas as the Steven D. Lavine Executive Director of REDCAT—CalArts’ downtown center...

CalArtians are among the artists represented in Craft Contemporary’s second clay biennial The Body, The Object, The Other, currently on view until Sunday, May 10 at Craft Contemporary in Los Angeles. The exhibition features works by 21 artists expanding the “notion of figuration within...