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Linda Rosenkrantz’s Day We talk with the writer behind Peter Hujar's Day about the art of reconstructing a reconstruction
In filmmaker Ira Sachs’ Peter Hujar’s Day (2025), over the course of 76 minutes we hear acclaimed queer New York City photographer Peter Hujar (Ben Whishaw) recount the contents of his previous day on 18 December 1974 to writer and personal confidant Linda Rosenkrantz...
POINT OF NO RETURN The life, death and rebirth of No Mag— stapled-together staple of the LA punk scene
When Ewa Wojciak met Bruce Kalberg, she had just received her MFA and landed a job as the art director of the recently launched LA Weekly. Kalberg was working as a temporary assistant in the accounting office. Their first lunchbreak together, Kalberg told Wojciak he...
DUELING REVIEWS: ALAKE SHILLING Two takes on Alake Shilling’s Buggy Bear at the Hammer Museum
ARTIST TAKEOVER: OLIVIA MOLE
GALLERY DOGS March/April 2026
The Take Room First impressions on LA Art Week 2026
At the tail-end of LA Art Week 2026, Artillery presented The Take Room at Wilshire Online where LA's cleverest writers and critics delivered and discussed their impressions on what they saw and heard during art week. Critics included Matt Stromberg, Janelle...
AT HOME IN THE CHAOS In the studio with Zak Smith
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...
MONUMENTAL GRAFFITI & GLITTERACY RETNA's indecipherable language of pop power
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,...
GALLERY DOGS
DUELLING REVIEWS: MARILYN MINTER at Regen Projects
ARTIST TAKEOVER: DEIRDRE O’DWYER & MOLLY ZUCKERMAN-HARTUNG
COLLECTING THOUGHTS (print exclusive) Jessica Fredericks & Andrew Freiser
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...
AN ARTIST ANSWERS QUESTIONS Carolina Fontoura Alzaga
Tell us about yourself I explore reclaiming personal and collective agency in a world that erodes it, often through sculpture and light. Lately, I’vebeen returning to painting and collage and trying ceramics to loosenconstraints and follow what emerges—from...
ART DAMAGED The Higher the Art, The Closer to GOD
STAYING SANE(ish) WITH DR. TRAINWRECK Essay
I am about to get married. Maybe. Probably. And as a part of this whole thing, I find myself spending hours—hours—discussing the particulars of what this marriage is going to look like. What rules are we going to have? How are we going to keep each other safe and make...
ROLL CALL
LUDOLOGY
lu·dol·o·gy /l(j)uˈdɑlədʒi/ n A field of cultural studies that examines games, the act of playing them, and the players and cultures that surround them. It is also known as game studies or gaming theory. Find an artist who created a portrait of another artist in any...
World AIDS Day 2025: Artists and Activism Panel Discussion at the Broad (Photo Recap)
Photo recap of an incredible event to commemorate World AIDS Day 2025 held at The Broad on December 3, 2025 featuring a panel discussion with multidisciplinary artists Rubén Esparza, Ken Gonzales-Day, Joey Terrill, and photographer/documentarian Judy Ornelas....
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...
RECONTAMINATION
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...