Tastes of Culture

L.A.’s Museum of Contemporary Art is interested in running the city-owned Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery in Hollywood’s Barnsdall Park, as the cash-starved city government tries to outsource eight arts facilities in hopes of saving about $1.3 million a year….

“Candide” — failed book by Lillian Hellman, delicious lyrics by Richard Wilbur, inspired score by Leonard Bernstein — opens on Dec. 1, 1956, in New York and closes two months later after 73 performances. Broadway applies the f-word. A flop?…