

Two LACMA Shows that Wow: Marc Chagall: “Fantasies for the Stage,” and a Carlos Almaraz retrospect
Although housed in separate buildings, these two shows benefit from being seen together. I would not have immediately thought of them in the same breath, but after seeing the shows I felt this Jewish émigré who escaped Nazi-occupied Paris in 1941 and this groundbreaking L.A. Chicano artist have a lot in common. Both go to dizzying, imaginative, and fanciful heights to retell personal stories — for Chagall, shtetl life, or for this show, his love of opera; or, in Almaraz’s