WERCKMEISTER HARMONIES — BÉLA TARR IN CONVERSATION
As part of its forthcoming Béla Tarr retrospective, the American Cinematheque presents the new 4K restoration of his late period masterpiece WERCKMEISTER HARMONIES. The filmmaker—on a rare visit to California—will introduce a members-only screening in Santa Monica, followed by a
OKWUI OKPOKWASILI AND PETER BORN — ADAKU, PART 1: THE ROAD OPENS
ADAKU, PART 1: THE ROAD OPENS—a new work by performing artist Okwui Okpokwasili, with music by Okpokwasili and Peter Born—makes its way to Los Angeles this week with three performances at REDCAT. The artist’s practice of “speculative mythology” in sight
NINA SIMONE CHILDHOOD HOME BENEFIT AUCTION AND EXHIBITION
In 2017, the childhood home of Nina Simone—a three-room structure in Tryon, North Carolina—was jointly purchased by Adam Pendleton and fellow artists Ellen Gallagher, Rashid Johnson, and Julie Mehretu. Since then, the African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund has been
THE EIGHT MOUNTAINS
Directed by Felix van Groeningen and Charlotte Vandermeersch, THE EIGHT MOUNTAINS provokes perhaps an unusual amount of introspection in the viewer, during and after the film. Such is our investment in this portrayal of the lives of two dedicated friends
LIGIA LEWIS — A PLOT / A SCANDAL AT MOCA
Fighting their way through speculative narratives—sensory détournements of movement and sound by turns comic, anguished, and exhilarating—the characters in Lewis’ new work A PLOT / A SCANDAL uproot and remix histories of production and repression, drawing from lives as diverse