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

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

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.

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.

Ohad Naharin has described MOMO as two works running concurrently—70 minutes total—a bifurcation (or doubling) that plays with focus and distraction. Set mostly to the Hurricane Sandy-inspired album Landfall by Laurie Anderson and the Kronos Quartet, an all-male quartet adopts

“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.