Nathan Gunn, an award-winning baritone who was included in People magazine’s 2008 list of sexiest men alive, is onstage at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion through Dec. 19 as Figaro, the title role in LA Opera’s “The Barber of Seville.” The Rossini opera features some instantly recognizable music (“Thanks to Warner Brothers,” Gunn said with a [...]

The art world has its superstars, just like sports, television, and film have theirs. This fall, you’ll find a variety of them on stages across LA. For instance, a young Venezuelan nicknamed the Dude gets ready to take the classical world on an energetic ride at the Bowl and Disney Hall; and the original Super [...]

At the Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, you can stroll more than a dozen gardens with 14,000 varieties of plants, stopping to smell the jasmine, contemplate bonsai, or snap a photo in a grove of palm trees — all under the glorious California sun. But Curator Jessica Todd Smith is hoping the new [...]

“Séraphine,” a new film written and directed by Martin Provost, is a fascinating and sensitive portrait of an artist, Séraphine Louis (known as Séraphine de Senlis), working as a cleaning lady when she is discovered by German collector Wilhelm Uhde. Fittingly, this film about art is also a fine example of artistic cinema; not surprisingly, [...]

Something about “Images de Deauville,” the poster image for the “Paul Outerbridge: Command Performance” exhibit at the Getty, instantly drew me in. The 1936 photograph is an unusually striking, intensely colorful still life. In the foreground are a metallic sphere, a yellow cone, and a single die. Behind those geometric objects, a pink scallop shell, [...]