Bloom Bash turned Balboa Park into a Toulouse‑Lautrec‑tinged night to kick off Art Alive, even as museums warn that parking fees and proposed budget cuts threaten programming.

A new nonprofit gallery on Rose Avenue will showcase vintage surfboards, Dogtown skate artifacts and free youth programs in Venice Beach. The Chameleon Museum launches with a grand opening next Wednesday.

The 30th Market Street Festival returns Saturday, May 2, with music, a car show and more than a hundred craft vendors in downtown Columbus.

Howell’s upstairs theater came alive again as Gilbert and Sullivan’s Pirates of Penzance opened a short run on the unrestored 1881 stage, raising funds for restoration. Limited seating and original acoustics made opening night feel like a rare, local moment.

A Manhattan jury awarded Morgan Art Foundation $102 million after finding Michael McKenzie sold forged works attributed to Robert Indiana.

Phyllis 'Sentiva' Ochoa spoke from the Hilltop Unit about the viral 'Where We Roll' hook, her convictions and what she says she plans after parole. The KSAT interview recasts a meme as a personal reckoning.

Carnaval San Francisco returns to the Mission District May 23–24 with a Grand Parade, headliner and a soccer-themed community focus. Here’s what to know about route, closures and transit.

Owner Marina Texeira says repeated fines and a lapsed security permit threaten the nearly 100-year-old Torch Club. City staff and a councilmember are arranging a meeting to try to resolve compliance issues.

After an eight‑month renovation, MOCAD reopens this weekend with new street‑facing windows, a Learning Studio and a spring slate of Detroit artists. Mayor Mary Sheffield attended the preview.

Lupe Fiasco led a free master class at the Walters and is teaching rap as part of Peabody’s new Bachelor of Music in Hip Hop.

The Smithsonian’s restored National Carousel — once at Gwynn Oak — returns to the National Mall on April 24, bearing a civil‑rights history and new conservation work.

Refik Anadol’s Dataland opens June 20 in downtown L.A. with a rainforest‑themed, multisensory debut that uses the studio’s Large Nature Model.

The Avett Brothers’ shipwreck musical Swept Away opens at SpeakEasy’s Calderwood Pavilion April 24. The band is also touring with Mike Patton and plays the Wang Theatre June 10.