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
L.A. DANCE PROJECT — SPRING PREMIERES
For this year’s avidly anticipated Spring Dances, L.A. Dance Project presents the world premiere of Janie Taylor’s “Sleepwalker’s Encyclopedia” and the Los Angeles premiere of Benjamin Millepied’s “Me.You.We.They,” a collaboration with the composer Nico Mulhy. Alternating on the bill are
SCRATCHING AT THE MOON CATALOGUE LAUNCH
As part of ICA LA’s Triple Catalogue Launch Party, join artist-curator Anna Sew Hoy to celebrate the publication of the SCRATCHING AT THE MOON exhibition catalogue, an inside look at this landmark show. The first group exhibition of Asian American
FAT HAM
This hilarious, transgressive détournement of “Hamlet”—written by James Ijames and the recipient of the 2022 Pulitzer Prize—shifts the play’s setting to North Carolina and replaces European angst with Black American joy. There is no theatrical experience in Los Angeles more
BERTRAND BONELLO — THE BEAST
In Bertrand Bonello’s THE BEAST—an endlessly fascinating three-part puzzle—we first encounter Gabrielle (Léa Seydoux) and Louis (George MacKay) near the end of the Belle Époque, strolling through a Paris vernissage, playing a parlor game of “do you remember?”
DANIEL SCHMID — LA PALOMA
Los Angeles cinephiles are in for the rarest of treats as the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures presents the North American 4K restoration premiere of Daniel Schmid’s LA PALOMA (1974), the opera director’s “intoxicating, maddening revelation” starring Ingrid Caven, Peter Kern,
