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5 Los Angeles classical music, art and theater offerings we’re looking forward to in 2025

Nairy Baghramian, “Scruff of the Neck,” 2016. Ryan, a not-widely-known museum administrator, will have two critically important jobs to fill right out of the gate — the new vacancy in the senior curator’s office, plus the Hammer’s chief curator, a position open since the departure of Connie Butler, who left more than a year ago for the directorship of New …

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The “Madame Butterfly” effect: L.A. Arts and culture this week

Smartphones are often an intermediary between ourselves and the art we see. artsandlectures.ucsb.edu Imagi-Ne’er-Do-Wells An immersive meet-up/game and creative social club where people pitch crazy theme park ideas with a “venerable celebrity guest judge.” First Tuesday of every month. Walt Disney Concert Hall, 111 S. Grand Ave., downtown L.A. laphil.com Kacey Musgraves The pop-leaning country star comes to town behind …

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Not so fast: San Diego art museum could be blocked from selling its downtown home

The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego has closed its downtown San Diego galleries, which included the former baggage building at the historic Santa Fe Train Depot, shown here, and a second building that will soon become home to a Navy SEAL museum. A controversial plan revealed last week for the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego to sell its …

A San Diego museum is selling its buildings. What will happen to the extraordinary art built into it?

The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego is selling its downtown San Diego facility, included the former baggage building at the historic Santa Fe Train Depot and an adjacent museum office building. Two years after opening a $110-million expansion project in the tony seaside enclave of La Jolla, the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego has put its downtown exhibition …

In 2018, dozens of critics and scholars signed an open letter to the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego condemning a proposed renovation and expansion of its La Jolla building by New York-based Selldorf Architects, describing it as “a tremendous mistake.” Four years out, that renovation and expansion is complete. One of the principal charges of the renovation, says MCASD …

Review: Women take center stage as the curtain rises on a San Diego art museum

Niki de Saint Phalle’s “Madame, or Green Nana With Black Bag” with other scupltures in the Strauss West Gallery, part of the newly remodeled Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego in La Jolla. Niki de Saint Phalle, “Grand Tir — Sceance de la Galerie J,” 1961, mixed media Two dozen shooting sessions were publicly performed in Europe and the United …

Theaters hit the one-year anniversary of shutdown. How are artists keeping afloat?

No sector of the performing arts has been unscathed by the COVID-19 pandemic. “That’s why we didn’t break up!” Siguenza puckishly jumped in: “Then we have little Latinx theater makers saying, ‘You can’t say that, Herbert. But working in theater on streaming services, first with La Jolla Playhouse and now with Center Theatre Group, has been keeping us alive.” “It’s …