LACMA is being gifted more than 100 works of Austrian Expressionism, including its first paintings by Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele, by the family of the legendary Viennese art dealer Otto Kallir.

On a few occasions, I’ve had a visitor who looks aghast and murmurs something to the effect of, “I didn’t think it would be so expensive.”

Paintings” presented by American Repertory Theater and The Huntington’s “Sardines (a comedy about death)” delve deeply into the writer-performers' personal lives and "offer honesty, hope and lots of laughter,

CAMBRIDGE – The process of artistic creation is inherently mysterious. So, too, in many respects, is mental illness. In the case of Australian performer Sam Kissajukian, who has bipolar disorder, the result was a wild, six-month roller-coaster ride in the grip of a creative fever.