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Gil Maurer, Eric Nakamura, Steve Wasserman & Martin Wong Discuss
What Makes a Magazine Great?

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April 5, 2005, Los Angeles--CalArts President Steven D. Lavine hosts a roundtable discussion that explores the special alchemy that makes it possible for an editor to create a magazine that speaks to, and reflects, the prevailing zeitgeist. This event on April 12 at 8:30 p.m. will be the last of the 2005 President's Ideas and Dialogues Series at REDCAT, the Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater. Guests include Gil Maurer, former president of Hearst Magazines and winner of the Henry Johnson Fisher Award for distinguished service to the magazine industry; Eric Nakamura and Martin Wong, founders and co-editors of Giant Robot; and Steve Wasserman, editor of The Los Angeles Times Book Review since 1996. The panelists will discuss some of the great magazines of the past and explore whether in this era of niche markets a great broad circulation magazine is still feasible. This forum coincides with the release of new editions of two CalArts publications--Afterall, A Journal of Art, Context and Enquiry and the literary journal Black Clock.

REDCAT, CalArts' downtown center for innovative visual, performing and media arts is located at the corner of W. 2nd St. and S. Hope St., inside the Walt Disney Concert Hall complex. What Makes a Magazine GREAT? is on Tuesday, April 12 at 8:30 p.m. Ticket prices range $8-4. Seating is general admission. Tickets may be purchased at the REDCAT box office--located at the corner of 2nd and Hope streets, by calling 213.237.2800 or at by clicking here.

REDCAT's 2004-05 season programming is generously supported by The Herb Alpert Foundation; American Center Foundation; The Annenberg Foundation; Anonymous; Asian Cultural Council; Bank Julius Baer; Booth Heritage Foundation; Canada Council for the Arts; Hyon Chough; CONACULTA; Cotsen Family Foundation; CNMAT; Cultural Contact, the U.S.-Mexico Foundation for Culture; Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the United States and the French Consulates in Los Angeles and San Francisco; DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art; Discover Signs; Robert B. Egelston; Étant Donnés, The French-American Fund for the Performing Arts, a program of the French American Cultural Exchange; Factory Signage & Graphics; The French-American Fund for Contemporary Music, a program of FACE; The J. Paul Getty Trust; Harriett and Richard Gold; Lenore S. and Bernard A. Greenberg; The Jim Henson Foundation; Henson International Festival of Puppet Theater; The James Irvine Foundation; The Japan Foundation; The Japan Foundation, Los Angeles; Korea Art Foundation of America; The Korea Times; The Korea Culture and Art Foundation; Korea Foundation; The JL Foundation; The Sharon D. Lund Foundation; Meet The Composer, Creative Connections Program; México Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores; National Dance Project; National Endowment for the Arts; Pasadena Art Alliance; Wendy Keys and Donald A. Pels; Poets & Writers, Inc. through a grant from The James Irvine Foundation; Lee and Lawrence J. Ramer; Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Foundation; The Judith Rothschild Foundation; Dee Sherwood; Shiseido Co., Ltd.; The Skirball Foundation; SRE/Consulate of Mexico; Eve Steele and Peter Gelles; Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust; Dallas Price-Von Breda; The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts; Yamaha Corporation and The Walt Disney Company.

California Institute of the Arts, CalArts, the first U.S. higher educational institution to integrate the visual and performing arts under one roof, is recognized as the nation's leading laboratory for the arts. Housing six schools--Art, Critical Studies, Dance, Film/Video, Music and Theater--CalArts embraces creative cross-pollination among diverse art forms and traditions, and strongly encourages each artist to pursue his or her vision within a broad context of social and cultural understanding.

Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater, REDCAT, is an interdisciplinary arts center that introduces diverse audiences, students and artists to the most influential developments in the performing, visual and media arts from around the world, and gives artists and future artists in this region the production opportunities and creative support they need to achieve national and international stature.

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