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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.
How Disrupted Can an Art Fair Actually Get?
Days before the opening of the 61st International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale began, there were news reports of protests and disruption due to the Biennale’s inclusion of pavilions from Russia and Israel, two countries that are each involved in highly unpopular wars.
Best and Worst of the Biennale The Best Exhibition and the Best and Worst Country Pavilions Ranked at the 61st Venice Biennale
Turns out that there is bad art everywhere in the world, even at the Biennale. There was some good, some bad, some boring, and much of it was expected (cue lots of video art and fabric hanging from the ceiling). Here are our top picks of the best (and worst) of the (Venice) Biennale.
ARTIST TAKEOVER: PATRICK MARTINEZ
Signs of Life in the Ruins of Movieland On the Values and Architecture of Hollywood
Today, Hollywood is like a ghost ship, an empty dream factory with abandoned equipment. Unmoored and directionless, Los Angeles shivers in the void of the fantasy it can’t forget.
GALLERY DOGS (Print only) July/August 2026
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ART DAMAGED The Higher the Art, The Closer to GOD
ARTIST TAKEOVER: KYRA COLE
AN ARTIST ANSWERS QUESTIONS Julia Haft-Candell
About me: I primarily work in ceramics and bronze, using these materials to rupture perceived binaries, create community, and envision a symbolic utopia. My recent sculptures pay tribute to things we typically overlook or deem nuisances, such as costume jewelry,...
GALLERY DOGS May/June 2026
STAYING SANE(ish) WITH DR. TRAINWRECK Advice
Question: My friend diagnoses everyone she dates as a narcissist as soon as the relationship ends. She never seems to understand that some men just want different things than she does or they just aren't into her. Is there a way to explain the difference between a...
The Julia Stoschek Foundation Asks: What if a lot of videos were in one place and it was spooky? "What a Wonderful World" at the Variety Arts Theater
The Renaissance Revival-style Variety Arts Theater normally sits dormant at the chaotic corner of Figueroa and Olympic. However, for six weeks, from February 6th to March 20th, the theater hosted “What A Wonderful World: An Audiovisual Poem,” a presentation from the...
IN SEARCH OF A CITY May/June 2026
“Los Angeles is 72 suburbs in search of a city.” —Dorothy Parker Last weekend, Lily Monbouquette and Eric Bach, Los Angeles’s cutest couple, had their wedding in New Orleans. It was a gorgeous, moving affair in the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden, adjacent...
BRAD NEELY HAS A BOOK OUT AND THAT IS GOOD On Brad Neely's Creased Comics
In Spanish, the term feísmo is used to denote ugly technique in the pursuit of ugly truth. In its canonical expressions, it pairs the slapdash with a luxuriant emphasis on the grotesque. It’s a useful concept for the art of Brad Neely: looking at it closely, you can...
How does an entire family of artists work? Essay
When Liv, my middle sister, was three years old, she drew a perfect still life in sidewalk chalk. She rendered a side table and vase of flowers with a consistent perspective as if second nature, like a spider spinning a web. My dad loves this story and has told it so...
Why art week LA is more fashionable than fashion week NY
At New York Fashion Week this February, the biggest story wasn’t any of the actual clothes (although Rachel Scott had a banger of a debut collection for Proenza Schouler. I was particularly impressed with Look 9). It was looksmaxxing freak Clavicular walking in MAGA...
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LOS ANGELES FESTIVAL OF MOVIES 2026 Artillery on the Street
DAY ONE It is the cardinal sin of every writer who’s been based in LA long enough to wax poetic about the various versions of the city that seem to exist in conversation and contradiction with one another at any single point of time. A dilemma that filmmaker and film...
POEMS
The Summer I Couldn’t Sleep Yew trees branched into my veins. Needles pricked my hands my wrists— needles punctured my chest, a harbor for a man-made conduit. Nothing stemmed my desire for you. Nothing stopped the waking hours filled with longing for— I am expected...
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...