L.A. Metro has problems besides crime and ridership: It’s in the design

A commuter makes their way through the Hollywood and Highland Metro station in Hollywood. A spokesperson for L.A. Metro tells me that stations “typically do not include retail spaces unless directed by the Board or requested by stakeholders.” And any food service providers would not be “consistent with Metro’s ‘no food or beverage’ restrictions within station paid areas.” It’s high time to rethink this. In the galleries At MOCA Geffen, Iranian-born, U.S.-educated L.A.-based painter Tala Madani has a midcareer survey that just went on view, and Times art critic Christopher Knight describes it as “sprawling, alternately hilarious and eye-popping.” Organized by Rebecca Lowery, Ali Subotnick and Paula Kroll, the show, writes Knight, reveals an artist whose work could be the “truant love child of scatological transgressions by the late Mike Kelley and the feminist media smarts of artist Barbara Kruger.” Tala Madani plays with “the cultural stereotypes of family and social life,” writes Christopher Knight. Dance space In a May episode of Netflix’s fantastical animated sci-fi series, “Love, Death and Robots,” a siren figure known as the Golden Woman becomes intrigued by a deaf knight named Jibaro. Godard’s movies knew they were movies and saw no point in pretending otherwise.” “Godard didn’t make it easy, or not always,” writes the New York Times’ Manohla Dargis.