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In this 'Next to Normal,' the message is loud but not clear

"Next to Normal," the Pulitzer Prize-winning musical about a suburban mom's struggle with bipolar disorder, first arrived in Los Angeles in 2010, on its national tour.

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Photo tour: Glenstone, the decade-old private museum outside D.C. is bucolic — and very blue chip

Some private art collections are about the drama of the architecture. Others, the sheer accumulation of works. Glenstone, the private museum founded by collectors Mitchell and Emily Rales in Potomac, Md., is all about the arrival.

Two-lane roads wind through patches of farmland and well-manicured acreage studded with McMansions to arrive at Glenstone.

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Sneak peek: Doug Aitken's 'Electric Earth' will shake the MOCA landscape

Doug Aitken settles in around a long dining table at his Venice studio, coddling a cup of hot herbal tea. The artist is having a rare down day just weeks before the opening of his exhibition at the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA.

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Datebook: Towers of clay, the L.A. landscape reconsidered, dance at the Getty Villa

Sculptural pieces that dwell on material and color. A performance inspired by the work of women sculptors. Paintings that draw from the unremarkable aspects of L.A.’s urban settings. And a daylong dance choreography that looks at identity in antiquity. Here are four openings and events to check out in the coming week:

Bosco Sodi, “Malpaís,” in a pop-up exhibition at 143 N. Robertson.

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The art of the developmentally disabled on its own terms, minus the lens of sympathy
Laura Lasworth paintings read as luminous reflections of life
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