OLIVER HERMANUS — THE HISTORY OF SOUND
A note-perfect transference from page to screen, Oliver Hermanus’s new film “The History of Sound” concentrates the promise of its title into an aching minor key.
CAMILLE A. BROWN & DANCERS — I AM
The fall dance season gets off to a rousing start with the West Coast premiere of I AM, the acclaimed new work by Camille A. Brown & Dancers—a 60-minute blast from the future that celebrates exuberant self-ownership as a means
DANIELLE AGAMI AND ATE9 — SOON AFTER
Danced by Agami and a new iteration of ate9 made up of three male Batsheva veterans, “Soon After” unfolds with a magnetic camp extravagance that decentralizes our focus as it grows into a spectacle of “happening.”
OLIVIER ASSAYAS — SUSPENDED TIME
With comedic precision, SUSPENDED TIME turns the stasis of the recent pandemic years into a time machine, detailing the customs, passions, and neuroses of a pair of brothers quarantined in semi-rural isolation.
EMOTIONAL BODIES — ANNA SEW HOY IN CONVERSATION WITH DOROTHÉE PERRET
“The show was about relationships, reflected in the spaces between the sculptures. The space between people is the space of relationship. This is where emotion evolves; it’s a magnetized and energetic space.” — Anna Sew Hoy
JAKE BRASCH — THE RESERVOIR
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
SOMETHING IN THE WATER AT MAXXI
“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
RIGOLETTO — MASKS, POWER, AND THE ECHO OF FASCISM
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
ROBERT O’HARA’S HAMLET
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
E.1027 — EILEEN GRAY AND THE HOUSE BY THE SEA
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