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Jessica Gelt

@jessicagelt

Arts editor for the L.A. Times. Late-night reader, dedicated flaneur. Enjoys doing almost everything alone.

Joined March 2009
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Richard Avedon's Hollywood comes alive in more than 120 photos at Gagosian latimes.com/entertainment-ar…
Richard Avedon's Hollywood comes alive in more than 120 photos at Gagosian

Richard Avedon's Hollywood comes alive in more than 120 photos at Gagosian

A new exhibit at Gagosian, 'Richard Avedon: Hollywood,' features more than 120 images, spanning from 1947 to the year Avedon died in 2004.

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Former Times' Classical Music Critic Mark Swed is back with his monthly column. This #ElectionDay offering focuses on orchestral democracy sessions across the globe. Essay: How an orchestra's experiment with AI can make for a better democracy latimes.com/entertainment-ar…
Essay: How an orchestra's experiment with AI can make for a better democracy

Essay: How an orchestra's experiment with AI can make for a better democracy

In this year’s election season orchestras have been practicing the call for democratic thinking on a global scale, including in Los Angeles, Leipzig, Germany and Boston, where the Boston Symphony...

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Martin Sheen vouches for patriotism and hope in dark times with 'American Mosaic' (and you can, too, on this #ElectionDay) latimes.com/entertainment-ar…
Martin Sheen vouches for patriotism and hope in dark times with 'American Mosaic'

Martin Sheen vouches for patriotism and hope in dark times with 'American Mosaic'

Composer Peter Boyer's new work, "American Mosaic," accompanies footage of America's landscapes and faces taken by Joe Sohm, with patriotic narration by Martin Sheen.

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Behind the hype: ‘Oh, Mary!’ hasn't yet opened in L.A., but it's returning again next season (@CTGLA has booked @ohmaryplay again!): latimes.com/entertainment-ar…
Behind the hype: ‘Oh, Mary!’ hasn't yet opened in L.A., but it's returning again next season

Behind the hype: ‘Oh, Mary!’ hasn't yet opened in L.A., but it's returning again next season

Cole Escola's Broadway sensation 'Oh, Mary!' arrives at the Ahmanson as one of the most in-demand tickets in recent Center Theatre Group memory. Star Alaska Thunderf— and director Sam Pinkleton talk...

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'Wall of Crazy': public art installation features 1,516 of Trump's wildest posts: L.A. arts and culture this weekend latimes.com/entertainment-ar…
'Wall of Crazy': public art installation features 1,516 of Trump's wildest posts: L.A. arts and...

'Wall of Crazy': public art installation features 1,516 of Trump's wildest posts: L.A. arts and...

'Wall of Crazy': Brooklyn public art installation features 1,516 of Trump's wildest social media posts

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After his 99 Cents Only Store takeover, street artist Barry McGee takes over a gallery latimes.com/entertainment-ar…
After his 99 Cents Only Store takeover, street artist Barry McGee takes over a gallery

After his 99 Cents Only Store takeover, street artist Barry McGee takes over a gallery

Barry McGee, the celebrated graffiti artist who caused an uproar when his pop-up installation at a 99 Cents Only Store on Wilshire Boulevard drew a wild crowd, is bringing his street art to Jeffrey...

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Review: One of the greatest museum artifacts ever is at L.A.'s $450 million Air and Space center latimes.com/entertainment-ar…
Review: One of the greatest museum artifacts ever is at L.A.'s $450 million Air and Space center

Review: One of the greatest museum artifacts ever is at L.A.'s $450 million Air and Space center

Sam Lubell's architecture review of the new Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center.

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A night in the life, and after-life, of a professional scare actor latimes.com/entertainment-ar…
A night in the life, and after-life, of a professional scare actor

A night in the life, and after-life, of a professional scare actor

October unleashes a wave of spooky seasonal work for local actors, but all that creeping and crawling isn't easy.

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Trump administration might be using golf course strategy for Garden of Heroes: L.A. arts and culture this weekend latimes.com/entertainment-ar…
Trump administration might be using golf course strategy for Garden of Heroes: L.A. arts and...

Trump administration might be using golf course strategy for Garden of Heroes: L.A. arts and...

Is the government misrepresenting its plans for President Trump's National Garden of American Heroes in West Potomac Park?

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The YMCA and Center Theatre Group partner to offer free tickets, make live theater more accessible latimes.com/entertainment-ar…
YMCA and Center Theatre Group partner to offer free tickets, make live theater more accessible

YMCA and Center Theatre Group partner to offer free tickets, make live theater more accessible

The Center Theatre Group (soon to show 'Oh, Mary!') and L.A.'s YMCA have joined forces to bring live theater to the whole city with 'Every Age. Every Stage.'

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'Yamel Cucuy' is hunted by immigration agents and haunted by Mexican folklore latimes.com/entertainment-ar…
'Yamel Cucuy' is hunted by immigration agents and haunted by Mexican folklore

'Yamel Cucuy' is hunted by immigration agents and haunted by Mexican folklore

'Yamel Cucuy' — at the Latino Theater Company, inside the Los Angeles Theatre Center in downtown L.A. — follows a 13-year-old girl hunted by ICE agents.

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Reggie Burrows Hodges prefers to disappear. Now his art and music are everywhere in L.A. latimes.com/entertainment-ar…
Reggie Burrows Hodges prefers to disappear. Now his art and music are everywhere in L.A.

Reggie Burrows Hodges prefers to disappear. Now his art and music are everywhere in L.A.

Reggie Burrows Hodges is the subject of three concurrent L.A. exhibitions at the Getty, the California African American Museum and Art + Practice. These will mark his first-ever solo presentations in...

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The Broad will move more than 160 works to Paris and Leimert Park during construction latimes.com/entertainment-ar…
The Broad will move more than 160 works to Paris and Leimert Park during construction

The Broad will move more than 160 works to Paris and Leimert Park during construction

The Broad will display more than 160 works in a major exhibition at the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris during its final phase of construction. It will also partner with Art + Practice in Leimert...

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She moved to L.A. as Hollywood moved out. She got a one-woman show, but will the TV pilot sell? latimes.com/entertainment-ar…
She moved to L.A. as Hollywood moved out. She made a one-woman show, but will the TV pilot sell?

She moved to L.A. as Hollywood moved out. She made a one-woman show, but will the TV pilot sell?

Last year 34-year-old actor Katie Folger moved from Austin into a Silver Lake casita to pursue her acting dream. Now she's performing a one-woman show called "Getting in Bed With the Pizza Man" at...

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As one charismatic Venezuelan conductor leaves, another arrives: Meet L.A. Opera's Domingo Hindoyan latimes.com/entertainment-ar…
As one charismatic Venezuelan conductor leaves, another arrives: Meet L.A. Opera's Domingo Hindoyan

As one charismatic Venezuelan conductor leaves, another arrives: Meet L.A. Opera's Domingo Hindoyan

L.A. Opera's new music director, Domingo Hindoyan, who succeeded the company's longtime leader, James Conlon, makes his debut with 'Carmen.'

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LA28 still not prepared for Cultural Olympiad, critics say at legislative hearing latimes.com/entertainment-ar…
LA28 still not prepared for Cultural Olympiad, critics say at legislative hearing

LA28 still not prepared for Cultural Olympiad, critics say at legislative hearing

A state legislative hearing Wednesday revealed that L.A.'s plans for its Cultural Olympiad are woefully behind schedule as the LA28 Summer Games approach.

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Reservations open next week for Space Shuttle Endeavour’s new permanent L.A. home latimes.com/entertainment-ar…
Reservations open next week for Space Shuttle Endeavour’s new permanent L.A. home

Reservations open next week for Space Shuttle Endeavour’s new permanent L.A. home

Reservations for the California Science Center’s new Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center, home to Space Shuttle Endeavour, open Oct. 21.

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At 80, artist Lita Albuquerque is queen of the desert with two new shows latimes.com/entertainment-ar…
At 80, artist Lita Albuquerque is queen of the desert with two new shows

At 80, artist Lita Albuquerque is queen of the desert with two new shows

At 80, artist Lita Albuquerque is the subject of a significant museum survey in Palm Springs amid a convergence of projects affirming her influence.

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The Hammer Museum's director is on a mission to create a Westside Arts District latimes.com/entertainment-ar…
The Hammer Museum's director is on a mission to create a Westside Arts District

The Hammer Museum's director is on a mission to create a Westside Arts District

Nearly two years into her tenure as the director of UCLA's Hammer Museum, Zoë Ryan is taking bold steps into the future with expansive new education programming and a new way of looking at L.A. art.

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Review: 'Home of the Future' at LACMA explores dark side of American dream latimes.com/entertainment-ar…
Review: 'Home of the Future' at LACMA explores dark side of American dream

Review: 'Home of the Future' at LACMA explores dark side of American dream

Across six decades, designers and corporations sold the home as a route to health, freedom and security. The exhibition raises the harder question of who paid for that dream.

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