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THE EJACULATORY ESTATE
On a quiet, hilly residential street in Echo Park, behind an unassuming fence, there is a cathedral to freewheeling sexuality, a place where art and sex mingle to such an extent it can be hard to tell the difference. Most Angelenos will be familiar with the Tom of...
FURRY ARTISTS WILL REMAKE THE WORLD The Next Avant-Garde is at Anthrocon
I’m not sure exactly when I accepted that the future of contemporary art belongs to the furries. It likely happened at the waterfront rave in Pittsburgh—where, flanked by gyrating, half-clad wolves and sexy tigers—I spent the late hours of July 4th lounging with a...
BRINGING FORM TO THE FUNCTION Meet the Artist-Designers Redefining LA’s Art (and Fashion) Scenes
For decades, art and fashion have occupied parallel but distinct tracks. There have been moments of convergence—think Oskar Schlemmer’s Bauhaus ballet costumes, Salvador Dalí’s sartorial collaborations with Elsa Schiaparelli, and Keith Haring’s “Pop Shop”—but the art...
WHAT ARTISTS WEAR Studio Shoes
We asked 12 artists to show us their shoes...
ARTIST TAKEOVER Brett Westfall
CHLOE SHERMAN RENEGADE Interviewed by Ezrha Jean Black
The first thing that catches my eye upon walking into the Von Lintel Gallery for an exhibition of photographs from Chloe Sherman’s renowned 1990s series “Renegades” is a large black-and-white print (17.3 × 24 in.) of a half-dozen young women, perhaps in their early...
DUELLING REVIEWS: MARY CORSE at Pace Gallery
REVIEWS
AND ALL AT ONCE: SUMMER at Various Locations
If you’re reading this, it’s too late. Summer came and went. Pool parties in the Valley? Over. Midnight drives on Mulholland? Gone. We don’t care that you went to Sicily, that your credit score’s crippled because of it, or that you haven’t k-holed at Marcelino’s since...
NOAH DAVIS at Hammer Museum
For those familiar with the late painter Noah Davis and the lasting influence of his Underground Museum—the Arlington Heights exhibition space he operated with his wife and collaborator, Karon Davis—the Hammer Museum’s eponymously titled retrospective survey of the...
2025 CALIFORNIA BIENNIAL: Desperate, Scared, But Social at Orange County Museum of Art
Navigating the tension between impulsive expression and mastery of one’s craft is a fundamental aspect of the artist’s journey. A similar tension underscores the construction of personal identity that defines adolescence, and hence, the Orange County Museum of Art’s...
HOT! AND READY TO SERVE at American Museum of Ceramic Art
In her 1986 essay The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction, Ursula K. Le Guin reimagines human history not as a tale of conquest, but as one of containment. She proposes that the first human tool was not a spear, but a vessel—a bag, a bowl, a bottle. If stories are “carrier...
THE NEW DAVID GEFFEN GALLERIES at LACMA
Once, when I was 12 or 13, I was looking at Fernand Léger’s 1925 painting Composition in the European wing of LACMA’s since-demolished Ahmanson Building when I noticed a small termite crawling across the surface. Slightly alarmed, I notified an elderly gallery...
WILHELM SASNAL at BLUM
The news of BLUM’s abrupt closure after 30 years in Los Angeles reframed the landmark gallery’s final exhibition, Wilhelm Sasnal’s “AAAsphalt,” into an inadvertent elegy for contemporary art in Los Angeles. Entering the massive complex on an early July afternoon, I...
KAORU UEDA at Nonaka-Hill
The night I saw Kaoru Ueda’s self-titled show at Nonaka-Hill, I found myself later at a friend’s house watching YouTube videos of marine life. The viewing experience of the vibrating patterned creatures felt nearly identical to Ueda’s obsessively precise paintings of...
JULIANA HALPERT AND CHRIS KRAUS (With Additional Art by Luis Baez) at Bel Ami
To read a novel is to play detective. The detective novel leverages this symmetry: the reader identifies with Sherlock Holmes’s or Philip Marlowe’s driving curiosity. Our favorite sleuths want to get to the heart of the crime; we want to get to the end of the story....
DEPTS
IN SEARCH OF A CITY
Summer is museum season. I’m writing this in early August, a month during which the Angeleno art viewer’s options are fairly clear: Sweat it out on Melrose in pursuit of every lackluster group show; escape to the beach, like the dealers who phoned in those group shows...
STAYING SANE(ish) WITH DR. TRAINWRECK — (print exclusive) Remember the Plan?
Remember I had a plan to discuss overused and oversimplified terms in a way that anyone can understand? In an accessible, user-friendly but without being patronizing manner. Well fuck that. I quote NWA: “Fuck crossing over to them; let them cross over to us.” And to...
AN ARTIST ANSWERS QUESTIONS B. Anele
Tell us who you are. Hi, I go by the name of B. Anele. I am a trans disciplinary artist originally from the South, but somehow, I consistently find myself in other locations. My work as an artist has found me in the midst of being someone who is looked out for while...
COLLECTING THOUGHTS Erin Saluti
Tell us who you are in 50 words or less. I am a multi-hyphenate creative and collector, founder of The Edicurial Collection, and founder and creative director of Eittem, a functional sculpture studio in Manhattan. Trained in art history and interior design, my...
ART DAMAGED Prologue to the Metamorphosis
POEMS
Drink On It Palm Springs is a white blur, scorched into the fabric of time, an escape from the density of sycophants, uggos, and sadsacks. Until now, I had only seen desert flowers on Instaflam, posted by those true believers eager to reveal their sensitivity to...
GALLERY DOGS
LUDOLOGY
Deliver to us, in JPEG form, a pair of artworks—one from before 1900 and one from anytime after—that have an interesting visual connection (that is: one any viewer can plainly see). Most interesting juxtaposition wins! Artillery will choose a winner from the entrants....
STAYING SANE(ish) WITH DR. TRAINWRECK — (print exclusive) Dear Dr. Trainwreck
Dear Dr. Trainwreck, How can I, a layman, tell the difference between someone I have to cut some slack for because of their mental health diagnosis, and someone who is just being a jerk and blaming their diagnosis? Don't some conditions make conversations around this...