It's December and SoCal is bursting with everything arts and culture. I'm Carolina A. Miranda, staff writer for the Los Angeles Times, and here are some of the week's most intriguing arts st…
A "King Lear" double-header. Art after Fidel. And a quiet Los Angeles abstractionist passes away. I'm Carolina A. Miranda, staff writer at the Los Angeles, with all that's blazing in the wor…
A face-off between Broadway and a president-elect. A tribute to the seminal Vaslav Nijinsky. And a look at the masterful architecture of Louis Kahn. I'm Carolina A. Miranda, staff writer of …
A new show of photography merges black and white identity. Redoing the postmodern Crystal Cathedral in Orange County. And a Finnish conductor brings a fresh perspective to established works …
A week of loss. A conductor's return to the Southern California. And a museum exhibition that crosses an ethical boundary. I'm Carolina A. Miranda, staff writer at the Los Angeles Times. Her…
The art of a San Francisco group. Works inspired by a prominent L.A. sci-fi writer. And the powerful prints of a Cuban artist. Plus: photography that touches on the ambiguities of gender, su…
Two years ago, Casa 0101 theater in Boyle Heights held an open call for short plays about, inspired by and tangentially touching on the life, times or melancholy of singer Morrissey…
From Civil War telegrams to a historic Los Angeles house to the shaky place of art in Brazil, there has been terrific culture writing going on. I'm Carolina A. Miranda, staff writer for t…
Olympics pomp and design. A play about greed and our financial system. And an opera inspired by Luis Buñuel. I'm Carolina A. Miranda, staff writer at the Los Angeles Times, and here are t…
I'm Carolina A. Miranda, arts and culture staff writer at the Los Angeles Times. Welcome to your weekly guide to everything happening in the arts in Southern California and beyond. Don't mis…
An Israeli artist blacklist. Boston gets a Frida. And Microsoft founder Paul Allen's possibly short-lived Seattle art space. Also: the passing of an iconic American Indian dancer, a gallery …
New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art may be almost a century and a half old, but that doesn't mean that one of the oldest art institutions in the United States isn't intent on evolving. In …
For several months, Los Angeles has been bidding goodbye to the 6th Street Bridge. There have been street parties, art exhibitions and cruising flotillas of custom cars, all in advance…
A group of Duke University students made headlines after announcing they wouldn't read Alison Bechdel's 2006 graphic novel memoir, "Fun Home," because of its "graphic visua…
In the last several months, a wondrous mythology has emerged about Los Angeles in cultural circles. A steady drip of articles - in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and other ou…
The announced withdrawal of an entire MFA class  from USC's Roski School of Art and Design continues to make news. Historic ruins are threatened in Syria. A Picasso inspires talk of ineq…
The graduate class of 2016 at USC's Roski School of Art and Design withdrew in protest Friday from the visual arts program over administration and curriculum changes.
The first time Casey Jane Ellison took the stage as a stand-up comedian, things didn't go well.
In 1993, artist Rick Lowe took over nearly two dozen derelict shotgun houses in Houston's Third Ward and, over the course of 20 years, turned them into a thriving cultural center that offers…
It's not every day that someone tells you, "Drop whatever you're doing and go see an opera about human trafficking." But today is one of those days: So drop whatever you're doing this evenin…
Art blogger Jillian Steinhauer of Hyperallergic picked up on an intriguing series of job postings Thursday on the website for the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA). The not-for-profit …