Inside LACMA's plans to share its collection with a new Las Vegas museum: 'I'm a West Coast booster'
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by Jessica Gelt
3d ago
Early this year the Los Angeles County Museum of Art announced a partnership with the planned Las Vegas Museum of Art. LACMA's Michael Govan and LVMA director Heather Harmon discuss the details of the arrangement ..read more
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Commentary: LACMA finally is getting its satellite space. Regrettably, it's in another state
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by Christopher Knight
3d ago
LACMA's collection will be loaned to a new Las Vegas art museum. The deal isn't a jackpot for L.A., which has long been promised its own satellites ..read more
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David Mamet slams Hollywood's 'garbage' DEI initiatives. 'It's fascist totalitarianism'
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by Jireh Deng
3d ago
At the L.A. Times Festival of Books, playwright and filmmaker David Mamet blames age, not his conservative politics or inflammatory statements, for his fall from grace ..read more
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L.A. Times Book Prize winners named in a ceremony filled with support for USC valedictorian Asna Tabassum
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by Jessica Gelt
5d ago
Winners at the 2024 L.A. Times Book Prizes included Ed Park for fiction, Ivy Pochoda for mystery/thriller and the pro-Palestinian commencement speaker whose name has become a rallying cry for free speech ..read more
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Opera gets slapped with the 'elitist' label. L.A. proves just how wrong that is
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by Mark Swed
5d ago
With Verdi's 'La Traviata' and Huang Ruo's 'Book of Mountains and Seas' as well as other projects, L.A. Opera is attempting to cover all operatic bases. Can opera thrive here ..read more
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Camille Claudel's hand, not her trauma, is at the center of a magnificent Getty Museum show
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by Christopher Knight
1w ago
Sculptor Camille Claudel was more than a tragic figure. Her art influenced her titanic mentor, Auguste Rodin. A smart L.A. exhibition explains how ..read more
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Broadway makes way for 'Crazy Rich Asians' with new musical directed by Jon M. Chu
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by Alexandra Del Rosario
1w ago
Filmmaker Jon M. Chu will find familiar material in his Broadway debut as he directs a musical adaptation of author Kevin Kwan's 'Crazy Rich Asians' trilogy ..read more
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Review: 'Monsters of the American Cinema' confronts the horror in grief
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by Charles McNulty
1w ago
Christian St. Croix's 'Monsters of the American Cinema' has its Los Angeles premiere at the Matrix Theatre in a Rogue Machine production directed by John Perrin Flynn ..read more
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Why the search for the next Gustavo Dudamel is full of hope — and hazards
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by Mark Swed
1w ago
Klaus Makela, appointed music director of the Chicago Symphony at the age of 28, has been likened to Gustavo Dudamel. Why orchestras' chasing of youth could have downsides ..read more
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Copper thieves strike again, mutilating a 100-year-old monument in MacArthur Park
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by Thomas Curwen
1w ago
The newsboy who was part of the Harrison Gray Otis monument gone except for two bronze shoes, one intact and the other mangled ..read more
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