The group’s primary concert venue has been in Glendale in L.A. County rather than in the city proper, but starting next season, LACO will be performing in downtown Los Angeles at the Colburn School, right across the street from Disney Hall. - San Francisco Classical Voice
In radical breaks from the traditions of his profession, “his playgrounds and landscapes emphasized abstract, elemental forms for play and exploration, inserted into gritty New York City public housing projects, light-years away from the ornamental gardening approach that spawned the discipline in the 19th century.” - Bloomberg CityLab
The unconventional movie musical only won two Academy Awards out of the 13 it was nominated for, but two evenings before that, in Paris, Emilia Pérez came in with 11 nominations and came out with 7 statuettes — for best picture, director, adapted screenplay and four technical categories. - The Hollywood Reporter
The piece was removed from the tapestry’s underside by SS officers in Nazi-occupied France in 1941 and sent for remeasurement to the Schleswig-Holstein State Archive, where it was recently rediscovered. - ARTnews
“The Land of Sweet Forever compiles short fiction Lee wrote in the years before the 1960 release of her classic novel (To Kill a Mockingbird) and includes essays completed between 1961 and 2006. Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, will release the book Oct. 21.” - AP
“In China’s era of architectural excess, Liu has instead quietly thrived by letting each site — and the history, nature and craft traditions surrounding it — shape his designs, not vice versa. Whether repurposing earthquake debris or creating voids in which native wild flora can flourish, methodology matters more than form.” - CNN
Garai received nods as best supporting actress (play) for both The Years and Giant, which led the dramas with five nominations each. A revival of Fiddler on the Roof scored 13 nominations. Staunton received her 14th Olivier nom for Hello, Dolly!; Oscar-winner Brody and Tony- and Emmy-winner Lithgow got acting nods. - The Guardian
Revisiting Triadic Ballet, Oskar Schlemmer’s 1922 experiment with applying Bauhaus aesthetic and design principles to a very dissimilar art form. - Colossal
The Brutalist’s AI touch-up fits the broader culture’s fetishization of perfection and flattening, but image filters and technologies like Auto-Tune consciously draw attention to their artificiality, almost making a virtue of it, which is not at all the case with the film’s deployment of AI. - The Baffler
“For many decades, linguists regarded such utterances” — mm-hmm, um, huh? and the like — “as largely irrelevant noise, the flotsam and jetsam that accumulate on the margins of language when speakers aren’t as articulate as they’d like to be. But these little words may be much more important than that.” - Knowable Magazine
Anti-fans, as pop-culture scholars have termed them, are similar to hate-watchers: consumers who become fixated on what frustrates them. Both groups tend to target something in the zeitgeist, but unlike hate-watchers, anti-fans tend to construct something new out of their annoyance or contempt. - The Atlantic
Unlike the totalitarian regimes of the 20th century, which imposed ideology on their populaces by means of culture and entertainment, America’s current reality is the overturning of the political order by the country’s entertainers. Washington today can be understood only as a product of show business, not of law or policy. - The Atlantic
For over a decade before that spring day in 1992, Barry Joule, a Canadian handyman with a rock-star mane, had been one of Bacon’s helpers, doing odd jobs around the artist’s London home and driving him to exhibitions. - The New York Times
As the Oscar-winning director/screenwriter (Parasite, Snowpiercer, Okja) once told an interviewer in his native South Korea, “Whatever genre I choose, I intend to destroy it.” With his first English-language film, Mickey 17, he is taking aim at science fiction. - The New York Times Magazine
Jackson-Dumont’s departure comes just months after the museum quietly delayed its opening from this year to 2026. The museum has now delayed its opening three times. - ARTnews
