“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

MARIA finds the soprano Maria Callas in the last week of her life, stalking her grand Paris apartment, dressed to the nines, humoring her butler and housemaid, hoarding and abusing Mandrax. Haunted by her final public performance three years prior, she

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.

In one of the most poignant scenes from her debut documentary A FAMILY, writer Christine Angot looks at a black and white photograph of herself as a teenager. “I remember this photo, this moment in my life. I wasn’t in

EMILIA PÉREZ is a sui generis achievement, an uncanny blend of crime thriller and full-blown musical that rarely devolves into camp. The song and dance numbers appear as integral parts of a whole rather than mere sketches. Performing original compositions

Johan Grimonprez’s remarkable new film SOUNDTRACK TO A COUP D’ETAT is a vividly expressionistic overview of the early years of African autonomy and the birth of international Black Power. Interpolating texts, photographs, audiovisual clips, and performances by jazz giants, this

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

ED RUSCHA / NOW THEN is the best exhibition I have seen about one of the most respected figures of contemporary art in Los Angeles. Co-organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art