Listening to Yefim Bronfman’s breathtaking recital at the Walt Disney Concert Hall this past March, one is led to wonder whether genius is inherited—embedded in one’s DNA—or whether it can emerge through discipline, labor, and profound artistic influences.

Join filmmakers Harry Dodge, Silas Howard, and Steak House for special 4K restoration screenings of BY HOOK OR BY CROOK, an essential missing link in cinema’s buddy-film genre.

An unusual visitation occurred this past week when Sara Sachs presented a rare public engagement of a performance work titled LYING, a “choreographed, singing sculpture” that found, for four nights, a suitable home at New Theater Hollywood.

AKHNATEN transports us into an ancient, nearly forgotten civilization, where time, space, color, and form operate differently—still mysterious, still elusive. A world we can only imagine, and dream—exactly what art, at its best, allows us to do.

FALSTAFF is a operatic marvel of comic invention where nearly every line of the libretto is some form of false flattery.

ERUPCJA—a descendant of the narrated works of Varda, Godard, Rohmer, et al, that delights in and pays tribute to the mythologies we create around the poetry of happenstance—is a chosen-family affair joining the writing and acting talents of Charli xcx,

Some L.A. ART WEEK highlights for 2026

Oscar Tuazon’s new exhibition in Spain is on view through the first week of February.

Director Mascha Schilinski’s SOUND OF FALLING—an affective incantation of images and narrative voices—illuminates memory’s unreliability with imaginative force and style.

“Working with Satyajit Ray was like stepping into the mind of a quiet genius—every word, every gesture mattered, and he had this rare ability to make you discover depths in yourself you didn’t know existed.” — Simi Garewal