Arts

Following a year of internal strife, the Gay Men’s Chorus of Los Angeles looks for a fresh start with new music director Ernest H. Harrison.

Clara Porset is known for designing a famous Mexican chair. A show at the Art Institute of Chicago looks at how her influence extended far beyond that

Judy Ledgerwood’s extended rumination on painting and its skin-and-bones relationship to human bodies is on view at 1301PE on Wilshire.

A beautifully installed survey, on view through Dec. 7 in Boyle Heights. tracks Alexis Smith from 1973 to 2016.

Just 14 artists of more than 1,200 applicants were chosen to create art for Metro’s Crenshaw/LA transit line that will move through Los Angeles, El Segundo, Inglewood and parts of unincorporated L.A. County.

The photographer, in his first major museum show, uses a complex tonal printing process to lend richness to bland images

New museum shows in L.A. for Nov. 10-17 include Do Ho Suh’s fabric-based installation “348 West 22nd Street” at LACMA

Donna Summer’s “Hot Stuff.” “Bad Girls.” “She Works Hard for the Money.” A nostalgia-stoking catalog never gets the support it deserves in the Pantages musical.

Dance performances in L.A. for Nov. 10-17 include New Zealand-based dance company Black Grace in Laguna Beach and L.A.

Classical music performances in L.A. for Nov. 10-17 include the return of Mozart’s “The Magic Flute” at LA Opera

Theater openings, Critics’ Choices, etc., for Nov. 10-17 include the return of “Dr. Seuss’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas!” at the Old Globe Theatre and Andy Garcia in “Key Largo” at the Geffen Playhouse

All the week’s culture in one easy newsletter, including troubles at the Marciano, the destruction of Armenian heritage in Azerbaijan and Matthew Lopez’s 6 1/2-hour play.