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What to expect:
Essential Arts wants to make sure that you don’t miss any news, criticism, or expression of Southern California’s wonderfully vast and complex arts world. Our writers and critics are out night and day to bring you their experiences and opinions -- in concert halls and galleries, sitting down to interview an architect or a baritone, or sizing up the latest dramatic efforts in the theater.
We know you have a lot to keep up with. But we also know you wouldn’t want to miss what art critic Christopher Knight thinks about a new Hammer exhibition. Your experience of a concert isn’t complete until you’ve held up your experience to Mark Swed’s and seen how they compare. Charles McNulty’s theater reviews often identify the thread or idea that stayed with you after a performance. And you’ll never see Los Angeles quite the same way after reading Christopher Hawthorne. They aren’t just telling you whether an exhibition or a performance is worth seeing; they are telling you how it relates to worlds present and past.
Add to that our investigations and profiles, interviews and explanatory pieces, and Essential Arts could be the place you’ve been looking for to explain what goes on in the creative corners of our L.A.