Essential Arts

Museums nationwide face worse financial outlook since the pandemic, in large part due to a destructive swath of federal policies enacted by the Trump administration.

Joey McIntyre of New Kids on the Block hosts a holiday spectacular at CineVita; plus Nutcrackers, Christmas Carols and other seasonal fare.

The Huntington acquires the Civil War-era Winslow Homer masterwork, “The Sutler’s Tent”; Robert Therrien at the Broad; and “Dungeons & Dragons” hits the stage at the Montálban.

Students from Eliot Arts — who lost their school during the Eaton fire — are fundraising for a class trip to Broadway this spring.

Takashi Murakami Dodgers’ World Series Championship collection goes on sale, plus opera, ballet and onstage horror in L.A. arts and culture this weekend

The cinematic quality of the recent Louvre art heist in Paris generated international attention. Find out which local museums appear in a new U.S. study, “Top 10 Museums Most Vulnerable to a Heist.”

Theatre Commons L.A., a new nonprofit organization aimed at spotlighting the city’s bustling live theater scene, has launched with a website that lists the city’s many shows with links to purchase tickets.

Several hundred local actors find work as ghouls, ghosts and monsters in “Haunted Hayride” and “Dark Harbor” spookfests.

30 Bob Ross paintings will be auctioned in support of beleaguered public television stations amid funding cuts

UC Irvine has acquired the Orange County Museum of Art, including its building, staff, assets and debt; the Hammer’s biennial ‘Made in L.A.’ opens; and Dua Lipa plays five nights at the Forum.

The midnight movie phenomenon began on stage and shadow casts have kept that connection alive for five decades; plus ‘Jaja’s African Hair Braiding’ at the Taper and ‘Frankenstein,’ the ballet, in Costa Mesa.

A copy of the 1863 image ‘The Scourged Back,’ depicting the scars on the back of a formerly enslaved man, was ordered to be removed from Georgia’s Fort Pulaski National Monument by the Trump administration.