Laurie Ochoa

All the week’s essential arts stories, including LACMA approaching the point of no return on its Peter Zumthor building even as the project’s critics call for rethinking the plan.

This week’s essential arts stories

L.A’s Museum of Contemporary Art faces a unionization drive. Influential architect Ray Kappe dies. And more essential arts stories from a busy week.

The main galleries are now closed. Costs have gone up. But fundraising for LACMA’s new building is at a standstill. Christopher Knight does the numbers. Also: Solange is at the Getty, Andy Garcia is electrifying the Geffen Playhouse and Wadada Leo Smith is spreading the musical gospel of Ankhrasmation.

The complicated and painful history behind the real-life events depicted in the HBO series ‘Watchmen’ was almost erased from history.

Carolina Miranda is taking a well-deserved break from the newsletter beat today.

While Carolina Miranda recovers from her just-ended LA Times Expedition to Japan — and the rest of us recover from too many “Game of Thrones” finale gripe sessions — I’ll be your guide to the week’s essential arts stories.

Carolina Miranda is in Japan this week, leading an architecture and design tour for our own L.A.

Your regular guide, Carolina Miranda, is taking a week off the keyboards.

More leadership uncertainty at MOCA. The Julius Eastman revival. Susan Stroman’s Henry James moves.