“I think that when you feel connected and are not distracted, there is a greater increased possibility that you will feel joy.” And the possibilities of feeling joy are particularly desired right now in these harsh days of early 2025.

“I was always a hoarder. One of my teenage best friends used to accuse me of buying records so that I could look through the holes. I was also an obsessive fan, attracted to the scraps of ephemera that had

Dodie Bellamy, Semiotext(e), 2220 Arts + Archives, Small Press Traffic, and Giorno Poetry Systems have organized a series of events in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and New York City launching Kevin Killian’s highly anticipated collection SELECTED AMAZON REVIEWS.

PST ART: ART & SCIENCE COLLIDE—a Getty initiative and landmark regional event that explores the intersections of art and science, past and present—is bringing excitement to the art community and visitors from around the world.

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

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

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

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

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

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