Articles

AT HOME IN THE CHAOS
In the studio with Zak Smith

by Casey Ash, with additional reporting by Artillery Staff

What do CNN chief international correspondent Clarissa Ward, three-time Adult Video News All-Girl Performer of the Year Charlotte Stokely, and art-world rising star landscape painter Emma Webster all have in common? They’ve all posed for Zak Smith. The Ward portrait was one of his earliest works, back when her hair was riot grrrl red instead of Peabody-winning blonde, the commissioned portrait...

MONUMENTAL GLITTER & GLITERACY
RETNA's indecipherable language of power

by Eddy Gibb

The glittering paintings wouldn’t be out of place in Giza or Athens or Persepolis. RETNA’s bold scripts are the kind that shout down at you from the tops of ancient monuments. Sometimes elements of the painted characters resemble ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, sometimes Arabic calligraphy, sometimes a more European-looking, Knights Templar-esque code of crosses and keys. The texts of RETNA’s...

DUELLING REVIEWS: MARILYN MINTER
at Regen Projects

by Janelle Zara, Peter Frank

ARTIST TAKEOVER: DEIRDRE O’DWYER & MOLLY ZUCKERMAN-HARTUNG

by Deirdre O'Dwyer, Molly Zuckerman-Hartung

COLLECTING THOUGHTS (print exclusive) COPY
Jessica Fredericks & Andrew Freiser

by Artillery Staff

Tell us about yourself: We see ourselves as both gallerists and collectors. Since opening Fredericks & Freiser in 1996, we’ve spent nearly thirty years championing and collecting idiosyncratic, psychologically charged work. Our personal collection has been built slowly and with real intention, reflecting a long-term commitment to building depth within a core group of artists. Q&A: Q:...

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Reviews

DUELLING REVIEWS: MARILYN MINTER
at Regen Projects

R. CRUMB
at David Zwirner

R. Crumb’s “tales” (even filtered through psychedelics and cannabinoids) weren’t always so paranoid—though they were frequently calamitous. The street-hip graphic domain Crumb freely improvised during the 1960s and 1970s across densely cross-hatched black-andwhite...

MOSIE ROMNEY
at Sebastian Gladstone

I felt dizzy at mosie romney’s show “every Spiral has its law” at Sebastian Gladstone. I could chalk it up to external factors (fatigue, harsh gallery lighting), but I suspect that the work itself was the incubator of disorientation. My previous visits to the space,...

TRENTON DOYLE HANCOCK & PHILIP GUSTON
at Skirball Cultural Center

Entrusted to the sprawling Skirball Cultural Center in Brentwood by New York’s Jewish Museum, “Draw Them In, Paint Them Out” presents a handful of Philip Guston’s depictions of cowled Ku Klux Klan figures, alongside Trenton Doyle Hancock’s ambitious, mixed media...

MONUMENTS
at MOCA Geffen & The Brick

150 years after the Civil War, it seems American art institutions are finally ready to discuss Confederate statuary. Seizing this opportunity, curator Hamza Walker (along with co-curators Bennett Simpson and Kara Walker) has gone to unusual lengths in his sprawling...

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