Arts

How the singer has made music videos in the time of COVID-19. Plus, listening to Pauline Oliveros and art after the atomic bomb — in our weekly arts newsletter.

Cast members who stay six feet apart. Plexiglass shields. A stage set up under a tent, with distanced chairs. Is this the future of theater?

Cofounded with Black Lives Matter’s Patrisse Cullors, COVID-shuttered gallery Crenshaw Dairy Mart pivots to digital with Instagram show on Black resistance.

Brandi Carlile joins the L.A. Phil, Lin-Manuel Miranda sits in with Alan Menken, and an L.A.-area theater reads “A Poison Squad of Whispering Women.”

With wife Carol, Warner Henry gave millions of dollars to support classical music organizations large and small.

Toshiko and Iri Maruki’s shocking paintings of atomic bomb survivors transform those who see them. Now the Hiroshima Panels themselves need rescuing.

Citing COVID-related losses, the Huntington Library, Art Museum and Botanical Gardens lays off the chief curator of one its most important collections.

Photographer Brian Bowen Smith’s planned photo book, “Drivebys,” will document portraits of American pandemic life — shot through his truck window during an epic cross-country road trip.

Using a large-format camera in the front seat of his car, photographer Ian Byers-Gamber is taking portraits of L.A. artists during the pandemic.

Pauline Oliveros was one of the most radical composers of her time. Listen to her “The Well & The Gentle” and be changed by the experience.

British singer-songwriter Jessie Ware’s intimate, dance-centered videos for the album “What’s Your Pleasure?” get creative in the era of COVID-19.

The Times’ art critic takes a verbal ax to Placerville’s lynching logo, plus more from the world of arts.