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Jeff Koon sculpture ‘Split-Rocker’ anchors new LACMA building

A new acquisition has bloomed at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, which is expected to announce Monday that Jeff Koons’ monumental topiary sculpture “Split-Rocker” will anchor the east…

‘El Dorado Drive’ review: Megan Abbott taps into female financial woes

Book Review El Dorado Drive By Megan AbbottG.P. Putnam’s Sons: 368 pages, $30If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees…

‘Paradise’ Season 2: Creator teases Jane’s backstory, outside world

In the latest episode of The Envelope video podcast, we sit down with “Paradise” creator Dan Fogelman in front of a live audience at the Newport Beach TV Festival to…

Column: Where’s the music that meets this moment? Black artists are stepping up

It’s been one year since Kendrick Lamar took the Kia Forum stage in Inglewood for “The Pop Out: Ken and Friends,” the first in a series of highly publicized victory…

Pointeworks ballet spotlights women, performs during off-season

Sophie Williams’ decade-long dance career has taken her across the globe, from the English National Ballet in London to the Royal New Zealand Ballet and the Texas Ballet Theater, where…

2025 Emmy predictions: Best TV movie

The panel’s lack of enthusiasm for this category expresses itself in a drastic falloff after the first three contenders, as different from each other as TV movies can be. “Rebel…

Tell us your 2025 Emmy predictions with our reader poll

Our BuzzMeter panelists have had their say — now it’s your turn. Tell us who you think will be nominated for an Emmy in 14 major categories. Source link

‘The Damned’ review: The Civil War comes to quiet life, mesmerizingly

How much can you strip away from the war film and still have a war film? That question invigorates “The Damned,” the new movie from Roberto Minervini, an Italian-born director…

Lou Christie dead: ‘Lightnin’ Strikes’ singer was 82

Lou Christie, the singer and songwriter who set teen fans screaming in the 1960s with hits like “Lightnin’ Strikes” and “Two Faces Have I,” has died. He was 82. Christie…

Pixar needs original animated hits. They’re much harder to come by at the box office

For decades, Pixar could hardly miss with its original animated films. Whether the subject was toys, fish or a cantankerous old man, the Emeryville-based computer animation studio churned out hit…