Articles

LA’S SUMMER THAT WAS
A Parade Through the Valley of Ashes

In 1969, just months before Neil Armstrong allegedly walked on the moon, Queen Elizabeth rang in London’s brand-new,ten-mile-long Victoria tube line with a ceremonial ride in thetrain’s front car. Her celebration was warranted: the line was the first of its kind to be built in London in over 50 years. It was also completed at an astounding pace, having been approved for construction by...

The Rock Makes a Parade

by Chela Simón-Trench

Every morning, I look for two things on my drive down 6th. The first is a girl curled on her apartment building’s alley stoop, smoking a morning cigarette and swiping on her phone. She never looks up. The second is Levitated Mass (2012) by Michael Heizer. Over the past year, the two have become my good luck charms. The girl, however, is a bad charm. She doesn’t want a cigarette at the same time...

IN SEARCH OF A CITY
September/October 2026

by Ben Lee Ritchie Handler

A few weeks ago, Pilar Zeta and I visited the new David Geffen Galleries at LACMA, where on a clear day, one can almost see Venice, California, with his back turned to Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud (1969).

COLLECTING THOUGHTS
Tim Zeleny

by Artillery Staff

What started with just collecting Mars Volta concert posters and work from underground graffiti artists that I met at hip hop shows, led me down a rabbit hole of collecting art from all over the world.

ART DAMAGED
Puppeteer's Iron Hand

by Justin Gradin

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Reviews

DUELING REVIEWS: DAVID GEFFEN GALLERIES
Two takes on the David Geffen Galleries at LACMA

Following what felt like an eternity of delays—budget-related, structural and otherwise—LACMA opened its new Peter Zumthor-designed David Geffen Galleries this spring, finally unveiling its long-awaited proposal to reinvent the encyclopedic museum.

GARY BASEMAN
at Johnie's Coffee Shop Restaurant

Gary Baseman hosted a pop-up show in the long-shuttered Johnie’s Coffeeshop, kitty-corner from the Wilshire/Fairfax stop. Which is fun, because Baseman is big into kitty cats. “Off the Menu” shows a collection of drawings Baseman has done on menus of restaurants across Los Angeles.

EREWHON AT LACMA

Every year for decades, legions of tourists have flocked to the same SoCal landmarks: Hollywood Boulevard, the Griffith Observatory, Disneyland (or Universal, if you swing that way). For a certain subcategory of traveler straddling the line between hippie and yuppie, however, another attraction has recently been added to the mix: none other than grocery paradise Erewhon.

JORDAN WOLFSON
for Prada Spring / Summer 2026

I have always felt uncomfortable around birds. I often trace my repulsion to a family viewing of Hitchcock’s The Birds during my tender years, when anything could feel like a personal reference. In that sense, I may be biased—but when a PR pitched me a preview of Prada’s new Spring/Summer 2026 campaign, I knew immediately I didn’t like it.

JOHN GIORNO
at Marciano Art Foundation

John Giorno seems like a fun guy to have been around. Lively, ready for hijinks. I mean, anyone who’d turn his slumbering nakedness over to Andy Warhol’s camera for six hours must be pretty game.

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