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Essential Arts: Superb ‘Humans,’ 400 Fringe plays and Pasadena's Museum of California Art to close

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Essential Arts: The Hammer's firm leadership, a youth not so victorious, Tony Awards wrap-up

Jun 16, 2018

Essential Arts: Your Tony Awards primer, the Hammer's 'best' biennial, musically avant-garde in Ojai

Jun 9, 2018

Essential Arts: OCMA's new look, the Venice Architecture Biennale and the violinist shaking up Ojai

Jun 2, 2018

Essential Arts: MOCA director on his way out, Susan Stroman's return to the stage

May 25, 2018

Essential Arts: A cellist's royal wedding call, L.A.'s disappeared public art, 'Soft Power' debuts

May 19, 2018

Essential Arts & Culture: A new Iceman Cometh to Broadway, singing the blues at the Wallis, and paintings of history

May 12, 2018

Essential Arts & Culture: The Tonys' fear of the new and TV's take on Boyle Heights' art fight

May 6, 2018

Essential Arts & Culture: The Tonys' fear of the new and TV's take on Boyle Heights' art fight

May 6, 2018

Today: Don’t Touch the Water

Essential Arts & Culture: Glenda Jackson's scalpel, Laurie Anderson's multiverse, losing Laura Aguilar

Apr 28, 2018

Essential Arts & Culture: Getty Villa's redo, speaker dresses and Kendrick Lamar's Pulitzer — damn!

Apr 21, 2018

Essential Arts & Culture: MOCA mum on its future, Bowie ballet tribute, Coachella art tower

Apr 14, 2018

Essential Arts & Culture: Opera and the black experience, 'Shrew' and TV's 'Jesus Christ Superstar'

Apr 7, 2018

Essential Arts & Culture: King Tut and 'Angels in America' return, Laura Owens' 356 Mission to close

Mar 31, 2018

Essential Arts & Culture: Our spring arts preview, more silence from MOCA, a feminist 'Shrew'

Mar 23, 2018

Graffiti art exhibition aims to go 'Beyond the Streets'

Mar 22, 2018

Essential Arts & Culture: Upheaval at MOCA, Lucas Museum construction, musical history the Taylor Mac way

Mar 17, 2018

Essential Arts & Culture: #Oscars2018 and culture, the trippy Olafur Eliasson installation

Mar 3, 2018

Essential Arts & Culture: The Hammer's big gifts, quirky concert at Disney Hall, our freeway industrial complex

Feb 23, 2018

Essential Arts & Culture: Art and guns, the Obama portraits and 'Urban Light' turns 10

Feb 17, 2018

Essential Arts & Culture: Is the border art? Plus, L.A. Phil's 100th, Jasper Johns and 'Doggie Hamlet'

Feb 9, 2018

Today: Six Things to Know About That Secret Memo

Essential Arts & Culture: Pirates on stage, the cult of Shakespeare, an actor investigates poverty

Jan 26, 2018

Essential Arts & Culture: Ed Moses dies, a woman leads the L.A. Phil, architecture's award controversy

Jan 19, 2018

Essential Arts & Culture: Leonard Bernstein at 100, MLK tribute, peeling back the White House facade

Jan 12, 2018

Essential Arts & Culture: A 2017 rewind, lots of 'Nutcracker' and Bach, art and selfie marketing

Dec 15, 2017

Essential Arts & Culture: Museums facing fires, Misty Copeland onstage, and Broadway's new 'Hamilton'

Dec 8, 2017

Essential Arts & Culture: Getty Center at 20, a show unearths Mexican masterpieces, a Gold Rush opera

Dec 1, 2017

Essential Arts & Culture: Special Thanksgiving edition, starring Donna Summer, William Kentridge and tattoos

Nov 23, 2017

Essential Arts & Culture: The theater-TV nexus, a new CEO at the LA Phil, an art collection comes to light

Nov 17, 2017

Essential Art & Culture: The L.A. Phil at 100, Plácido's L.A. decades, getting funny with Shakespeare

Nov 10, 2017

Essential Arts & Culture: Parsing Kusama, outcry over Philip Johnson update, art's woman problem

Nov 3, 2017

Essential Arts & Culture: Vampire weekend, a Mexican masterpiece reemerges (sort of), the rising Academy museum

Oct 27, 2017

Essential Arts & Culture: Kusama-palooza, Getty Center's birthday, censored Hollywood public art

Oct 20, 2017

Essential Arts & Culture: The new MacArthur winners, Gehry's Bilbao effect, Springsteen on Broadway

Oct 13, 2017

Essential Arts & Culture: A censored mural returns, PST: LA/LA is humming, learning from Las Vegas

Oct 6, 2017

Today: The Planning and the Chaos in Las Vegas

Essential Arts & Culture: Rage and grief at the Taper, art of color and movement, Obama's library

Sep 29, 2017

Essential Arts & Culture: Chicago architecture biennial, 'The Red Shoes' hits L.A. and more PST: LA/LA

Sep 22, 2017

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