Uricaru, Tony Cokes and Los Angeles artist Todd Gray. Among the artists selected are Elle Pérez, Ioana M. The American Academy in Rome this week announced the winners of the 2022-23 Rome Prize. The two will assist in developing and presenting museum exhibitions and public programs.Īnna Deavere Smith’s “Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992,” a hybrid oral history/solo performance examining the roots of the Los Angeles uprising, will return to the Mark Taper Forum nearly 30 years after its world premiere. Laguna Art Museum has named art historian Jean Stern and curator Rochelle Steiner as curatorial fellows through early 2023. (Takashi Murakami / Kaikai Kiki Co., Ltd / Robert McKeever, the Broad Art Foundation) The artist has given this very Jeffersonian building an African-style architectural makeover, by adding a thatched roof that drapes over the building’s roof:
I’ve been intrigued by images of Simone Leigh’s installation at the U.S. “Art and love and dancing and dreams,” he writes, “are worth fighting for, in whatever way we can.” L.A.-based critic Andrew Berardini delivers a lyrical dispatch from Venice in Artforum, where art installations are interspersed with acknowledgments of the pandemic and the war in Ukraine. The new works are currently on view at the Museo di Palazzo Grimani in Venice. “I thought it was the most evil painting I had ever seen,” Weatherford tells the New York Times’ Robin Pogrebin. painter Mary Weatherford made a suite of works inspired by Titian’s 16th century masterpiece “The Flaying of Marsyas,” which shows the tragic story of the satyr from Ovid’s tale. (More on that in the coming weeks.) But I can read all about the biennale on my space phone. Instead of going to the Venice Biennale and all of its attendant goings-on, I went to Denver. “Through benefit concerts, workshops and platforming emerging artists of color, these groups represent alternatives to the paradigm of classical music and are setting the example of what an inclusive classical industry could look like.” See you at the Biennale In an article that touches on these themes for Represent Classical, Easter looks at some of the grassroots activist classical music groups looking to create change within the industry. Your support helps us deliver the news that matters most. Interesting nugget: She has “started casting around a little net” in her mind for the next musical project.Įnjoying this newsletter? Consider subscribing to the Los Angeles Times Mitchell also talks to Lee what about lies ahead. It was like a train that kept rolling - and here we are, back in L.A.” The Times’ Ashley Lee profiles Anaïs Mitchell, its creator, about the musical’s extraordinary journey: “We had 14 people and a dog in a 15-passenger van,” recalled Mitchell of the show’s early tour. A fan of Feldstein’s, McNulty writes that she is “most convincing as a Long Island matriarch who wants everything to run according to her plan.” But she has yet to make the role her own.īack in Los Angeles, McNulty checked out the Tony-nominated “Hadestown,” which has landed at the Ahmanson Theatre in “smoldering fashion.” Inspired by the legend of Orpheus and Eurydice, he says the production “is crowded with vibrant musical performers.”įor L.A., the show represents a comeback - since “Hadestown” was born and first performed here. The revival features a retool of the original’s “sluggish” book by Harvey Fierstein. “For much of this triumphant, emotionally lacerating show, which had its official opening Tuesday at the Lyceum Theatre,” writes McNulty, “I sat with my mouth agape, astonished and grateful that something so brutally honest and rigorously constructed had finally broken through to a Broadway stage.Īlso on Broadway is a revival of “Funny Girl” - the musical that catapulted Barbra Streisand to fame - with Beanie Feldstein in the role of Fanny Brice. Jackson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning musical, “A Strange Loop,” which tells the story of an aspiring writer named Usher (played by Jaquel Spivey), who dreams of penning a hit musical about “a Black, gay man who’s writing a musical about a Black, gay man” but is faced with the reality of taking day jobs to make ends meet. In New York City, he took in a performance of Michael R. On the stageĪfter a couple of years of pandemic-induced quiet, Times theater critic Charles McNulty is hot on the trail of everything that is new in theater - on two coasts, no less! Huntsman Architectural Group did the interior design, including the wellness center ( see the images online) - and the aesthetic definitely feels very microdosing-room-for-tech-bros.