As our social season switches from #BabyShark to #BabyYoda, we’ve got one L.A. museum partially closed for construction and another shut down after a labor dispute. But there is still plenty happening in Southern California arts. Solange is at the Getty, Andy Garcia is electrifying the Geffen Playhouse and Wadada Leo Smith is spreading the musical gospel of Ankhrasmation. I’m Laurie Ochoa, arts and entertainment editor at the Los Angeles Times, ready to take you through the week’s artland news for Carolina A. Miranda, who is taking a well-deserved vacation.Museum in limboOn Tuesday, the collection galleries at the Los Angeles Museum of Art were shuttered in anticipation of the construction and planned 2024 opening of a new Peter Zumthor-designed building that will straddle Wilshire Boulevard. (BCAM and the Resnick Pavilion remain open.) But there’s a problem. Times art critic Christopher Knight reports that fundraising has stalled and costs are rising, according … [Read more...] about Essential Arts: Don’t blame L.A.’s philanthropy culture for LACMA’s stalled fundraising
