La Luz de Jesus Gallery celebrates 40 years of groundbreaking exhibitions with a major anniversary presentation honoring the gallery’s long-standing role in Los Angeles’ lowbrow, pop-surrealist, outsider, and countercultural art scenes. Founded in 1986 by Billy Shire, the gallery helped create a platform for artists working outside traditional fine-art conventions and became an influential force […]
Theatre Unleashed presents the world premiere of IMAGO, a funny, uncompromising, and unexpectedly tender new play about art, ambition, family, and what it costs to finally allow yourself to change. At its center is Katherine Harmston, a fiercely independent painter whose refusal to compromise has shaped both her art and her life. When news of […]
Open Fist Theatre Company presents a rare revival of José Rivera’s Obie-winning Marisol, a dreamlike blend of magical realism, Theatre of the Absurd, dark humor, and poetic storytelling. After her guardian angel abandons her to join a celestial war, Bronx resident Marisol Pérez is left to navigate a terrifying world that seems to be coming […]
Manipulation brings together recent works by Los Angeles artists Delbar Azari, Richard Bruland, Courtney Colgan, and Lori Nielson, each approaching material and surface in a distinctly different way. Across painting and mixed media, the artists alter, layer, polish, scrape, reflect, and build their surfaces to create works that resist easy categorization while emphasizing technical precision […]
Michael Kohn Gallery presents Charles Arnoldi: String Theory, focusing on a series of paintings created between 2016 and 2019 by one of the defining figures of West Coast abstraction. Arnoldi builds these works through fluid, looping lines that travel across the canvas, accumulating into dense networks of movement before unexpected shapes emerge from the intersections […]
In Path of Least Resistance, Los Angeles-based painter Jon Ching turns inward, creating a body of work shaped by personal experience, emotion, and the smaller moments that define everyday life. His richly imagined paintings merge animals, flowers, spiritual symbols, and surreal transformations, allowing natural forms to carry ideas about time, loss, memory, and the changing […]
The Mountain Digby is a hilariously gruesome new musical about brothers Robbie and Nyle Digby, who have spent their lives isolated atop their family mountain while generations of townspeople below have built a monstrous mythology around them. When a bureaucratic technicality suddenly threatens their claim to the land, the brothers are forced down into town […]
Theatre Unleashed presents the world premiere of IMAGO, a funny, uncompromising, and unexpectedly tender new play about art, ambition, family, and what it costs to finally allow yourself to change. At its center is Katherine Harmston, a fiercely independent painter whose refusal to compromise has shaped both her art and her life. When news of […]
The Growlers bring their woozy blend of psychedelic rock, surf textures, garage influences, and offbeat pop to The Greek Theatre for an open-air Los Angeles performance. Their music is known for a hazy, distinctly Southern California character, mixing vintage sounds with eccentric melodies and a loose, atmospheric stage presence. The Greek Theatre’s hillside setting gives […]
Open Fist Theatre Company presents a rare revival of José Rivera’s Obie-winning Marisol, a dreamlike blend of magical realism, Theatre of the Absurd, dark humor, and poetic storytelling. After her guardian angel abandons her to join a celestial war, Bronx resident Marisol Pérez is left to navigate a terrifying world that seems to be coming […]
Armenian pianist and composer Artur Zakiyan returns to Catalina Jazz Club for two intimate solo-piano performances shaped by his cultural roots and a richly cinematic musical sensibility. His style blends classical technique with atmospheric textures and the emotional character of Armenian musical traditions. The program features Zakiyan’s original compositions, masterpieces of Armenian music, and selected […]
Open Fist Theatre Company presents a rare revival of José Rivera’s Obie-winning Marisol, a dreamlike blend of magical realism, Theatre of the Absurd, dark humor, and poetic storytelling. After her guardian angel abandons her to join a celestial war, Bronx resident Marisol Pérez is left to navigate a terrifying world that seems to be coming […]
