Wabanaki basketry and holiday flamenco: The best of L.A. arts this weekend
LA TimesSure, many of us have had Christmas covers on repeat lately, but I’ve also been playing the soundtrack and score of the still-brilliant 1994 movie “The Lion King”. — Ashley Lee The week ahead: A curated calendar Macaulay Culkin and Joe Pesci in the 1990 movie “Home Alone,” screening Saturday and Sunday at Walt Disney Concert Hall accompanied by a live orchestra performing John Williams’ score. Walt Disney Concert Hall, 111 S. Grand Ave., downtown L.A. laphil.com SUNDAY Holiday Movies The American Cinematheque stuffs all three of its venues with traditional and nontraditional seasonal fare in the run-up to Christmas, including “It’s a Wonderful Life”, “Carol”, “Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point”, “Bad Santa” and “Elf”. The famous opera singer Maria Callas can’t be reduced to the size of a Hollywood biopic, writes Times classical music critic Mark Swed of the new film “Maria” streaming on Netflix. The unfairly maligned, endlessly examined teenage years will be the subject of the Orange County Museum of Art’s, “California Biennial 2025: Desperate, Scared, but Social.” S et to open June 25, it will be OCMA’s 15th edition of this highly anticipated exhibition series and will feature 12 artists and collectives, working across media and disciplines to, according to a news release, “explore the richness of late adolescence, a stage of life full of potential, possibility, and hope yet also fraught with awkwardness, anxiety, and myriad pressures.” Artists and collectives presenting work from their own teenage years include Seth Bogart, Miranda July, Brontez Purnell, Laura Owens, Joey Terrill and the Linda Lindas.
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