KLARA LIDEN — VERDEBELVEDERE
For her new exhibition of work at Reena Spaulings, Klara Liden has turned to the rooftops of New York, installing “rough, oblong slices of silver-painted tar paper collected from various building sites” around town.
CARNIVAL OF THE ANIMALS
At the beginning of September, I brought my five-year-old daughter to an evening performance of “Le Carnaval des animaux” / “Carnival of the Animals,” by Camille Saint-Saëns. This seemed the perfect opportunity to introduce her to a masterpiece, with Gustavo
JACQUES ROZIER — AN AMERICAN CINEMATHEQUE RETROSPECTIVE
What better way to close out the season than a series of films by Jacques Rozier, the “chronicler of summer”?* Presented by the American Cinematheque, this retrospective of 4K restorations includes all five features by the filmmaker whose 1957 short,
TARELL ALVIN MCCRANEY — THE BROTHERS SIZE
Told in rich and agile narrative shorthand, McCraney’s THE BROTHERS SIZE dramatizes a series of episodes about a pair brothers in a small bayou town in Louisiana. Ogun Size (Sheaun McKinney), earnest and responsible, owns a car repair shop. Oshoosi
ED RUSCHA — NOW THEN
ED RUSCHA / NOW THEN is the best exhibition I have seen about one of the most respected figures of contemporary art in Los Angeles. Co-organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art
FRANCES STARK — ORDERS TO KILL
In earlier drawings and collages, I used to depict stacks of bankers boxes, just crude outlines, suspended in space, and they’d repeat to form a cage or lattice. Sometimes I’d perch some birds on there. The ubiquitous boxes had a
THE INDUSTRY — THE COMET / POPPEA
In theory and dazzling practice, director Yuval Sharon has been instrumental in the contemporary renewal of opera—not as an end point but rather the ongoing cycle of rebirth, death, and rebirth intrinsic to the form. As the founder of the
KRAFTWERK — TOUR DE FRANCE AT DISNEY HALL
In May 2024, Kraftwerk played a special album-by-album engagement at the Walt Disney Concert Hall. On the penultimate show of nine dates, the electronic music trailblazers performed one of their most iconic albums, “Tour de France Soundtracks”—the concert providing a
L.A. OPERA — TURANDOT
Everyone knows TURANDOT’s “Nessun Dorma,” one of the best-known tenor arias in opera. When sung by Russell Thomas (Calaf) in the current LA Opera engagement, the audience breaks out with enthusiastic applause, a rare gesture reserved for those truly magical
DAVID ZWIRNER — 30 YEARS
“Do David and I finish one another’s sentences?” asked architect Annabelle Selldorf at an opening week event at David Zwirner’s new Los Angeles space. “No.” But one could say that they finish one another’s buildings, so in tune have they
