Museums & Art

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.”

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.

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

Renée Fleming sings, “Hamilton” stars reunite, burlesque dancers strip down, Pacific Symphony plays Beethoven’s Fifth and Helen Mirren does “Ophelia.”

How monuments are evolving, a cello disappears then mysteriously reappears, and Ai Weiwei on activism. Plus much more in our weekly arts newsletter

The star-filled “Towering Disaster” parodies disaster flicks, Ali Stroker joins an ADA-themed festival and L.A. Opera revisits its “Ring.”

Mayor Eric Garcetti collaborates with Shepard Fairey to launch the L.A. Mask Print Project, in which artists share designs for downloadable posters.

The Marciano laid off 70 visitor services staffers when the museum shut its galleries in 2019. AFSCME called the layoffs “an anti-union tactic.”

‘Devastating’: American Alliance of Museums survey reflects the financial threat to art museums, aquariums, botanical gardens and other institutions.

For those studying music, dance, film, visual art or theater at the college level, the pandemic threatens crucial in-person instruction and practice.

Centering the music is the L.A. Phil’s strategy going forward, plus reports on California missions and the latest monument controversies in our weekly arts newsletter.