Film, music, books and creative life around the world.
A dispute over the Palais Garnier ceiling is moving towards legal action, with a descendant of Jules-Eugène Lenepveu seeking to uncover his original nineteenth-century painting. Marc Chagall’s later ceiling remains installed above the auditorium.
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The Beach Boys played their first public show since July in Cincinnati, with co-founder Mike Love joining the performance. His appearance followed cancelled comeback dates and statements that he was facing significant health difficulties.
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Laika’s Wildwood follows a Portland girl named Prue into a hidden forest after her baby brother is carried away by crows. Adapted from the book by Colin Meloy and Carson Ellis, the film is directed by Travis Knight and written by Chris Butler.
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End of the World and Hard-Boiled Wonderland adapts Haruki Murakami’s dual-narrative novel for the Barbican. Director and choreographer Philippe Decouflé uses the theatre’s scale to distinguish a noir-like Tokyo from a dangerous dream world.
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Branford Marsalis and singer Dianne Reeves revisit the musical relationship between John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman on Dedicated to You. The 1963 album provides a model for a tribute commissioned in Coltrane’s centenary year.
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Jess Williamson’s A Mile South of Heaven explores competing impulses to remain in Los Angeles or leave it behind. The Texas-born singer opens the album with a track borrowing the title of Joan Didion’s essay Goodbye to All That.
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Margaret Atwood’s Book of Lives gathers personal history, relationships and literary experience into a memoir that she initially resisted writing. The Canadian author presents it as a partial, shaped account rather than a complete catalogue of every year.
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