Articles

MOUNTAIN AS METHOD
A Look Inside the Mountain School of Arts, LA's Most Mysterious Art Institution

I missed the party. A party that promised nothing less than to reveal the nature of reality. I wanted to go, but the promised revelation of full reality was curtailed by immediate financial reality—I had to go to a wedding out of town the night before and couldn’t afford the only flight that would get me back in time for the event. I grudgingly accepted that I might be on too tight a budget to...

RECONTAMINATION

by Gerd Ludwig

LA-based photographer Gerd Ludwig has been recording the aftermath of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster for the last two decades. Here, Artillery presents a selection of Ludwig’s most recent images, focusing on the ghost town of Pripyat. The near-classically surreal tableaus shown in Ludwig’s new work are the result not merely of the meltdown itself, but also of the following decades of disaster...

ARTIST TAKEOVER: PETER TOMKA

by Emma Christ

DUELLING REVIEWS: BRUCE NAUMAN
at LACMA

by Casey Ash, Janelle Zara

AMONG THE THANATOIDS

by Stephen Piccarella

He owns a mobile home he drives from place to place, crashing where he can for as long as he can, depending on the language in the local zoning ordinances. He works remote contract data entry jobs on a laptop, always connected to free public WiFi, and accepts all payments under the table via money transfer apps. He doesn’t pay for insurance but manages to treat his chronic illness with one-time...

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Reviews

YUVAL PUDIK
at NOON Projects

Men in nice suits do not often crawl around on their hands and knees; there’s too great a risk of their shoes getting scuffed, their knees wearing through, or, God forbid, their seams splitting right along their backside. But brave men in suits defied the norms on...

NANCY BUCHANAN
The Brick

Desire can make you sick, or it can make you try. Los Angeles-based artist Nancy Buchanan, working steadily since the 1970s, has consistently chosen the latter. Hair Room (1973/2025), a closet-sized chamber where strings of hair caress the top of your head as you walk...

ADAM ALESSI
at Hoffman Donahue

“fullmoon” is a bit of a homecoming for Adam Alessi. The artist has been averaging around one solo show a year since his sudden art world ascent about five or six years ago, but with the last two having taken place in Italy and New York, Los Angeles has rarely seen...

FLORIAN KREWER
Michael Werner

There’s an easy attractiveness to Florian Krewer’s paintings that obscures the complex formations of desire within them. At times they seem stripped of everything but their earnestness, but then at others, they are scattered with bold and reckless impulses. There is...

IT SMELLS LIKE GIRL
at Jeffrey Deitch

“It Smells Like Girl,” at Jeffrey Deitch, in conjunction with Company Gallery, shares its title with a Tala Madani painting depicting a suspiciously phallic object, a lone actor against a cloudless blue sky. Stark and funny, the phallus is the main character, but its...

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