Josh—a queer, alcoholic, and very erudite NYU college student—has passed out on the beach again. Upon coming to, he thinks he’s on the Atlantic, but soon realizes he’s back home in Colorado. Except he has no memory of how he

“The exhibition’s selection of works, ranging from sculpture and poetry to installation and architectural gestures, makes it a place to listen and interact, a space where water is not just shown, but expresses itself—with its voice, its physical presence, its

When the curtain rises on “Rigoletto” at LA Opera, the audience is confronted by a surreal and unsettling tableau: around thirty masked men in suits, standing in tight formation, their faces obscured by animal visages and commedia dell’arte grotesques, stare back at

Usually set in a castle in Denmark during the Middle Ages, Robert O’Hara’s reinvention of Hamlet brings our current century to the play, yet it remains a period piece. Or rather, a piece of many periods, depending on who’s doing

Eileen Gray recognized her good fortune. The fact that she was born into a rich family, she said, allowed her to become an artist. Allowed her the time to consider and develop, at her own pace, an aesthetic well suited

It begins as a dream. A moth, incorporating its own light source, hovers over a form. A director—a hybrid “I” in a hall of mirrors—considering a body of work. A shroud—a curtain that descends and enfolds—is embedded with cameras. Once

As a corrective to a corrective, [siccer] utilizes choreographed movement, video installation, green screen, and stop-motion photography to plot paths by which Black performance can reject Western forms of classification without resolution—a state of continuous evolution and becoming.

The films of writer-director Alain Guiraudie—who exploded on the international scene with his 2013 feature Stranger by the Lake—take us to a place out of time, roughly reflecting the years of the filmmaker’s coming of age through his maturity without

In addition to the art fairs—Felix, The Other Art Fair, Frieze Los Angeles, and newcomer Post-Fair—local institutions, galleries, and alternative art spaces are presenting a wealth of special events, programs, and exhibitions.

Whether you are an artist, an activist, a cultural advocate—or all of the above—directly or indirectly impacted by the catastrophic fires that continue to burn in the Los Angeles area, there is relief you can seek and programs you can