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AN ARTIST ANSWERS QUESTIONS Lita Albuquerque
What is the most beautiful thing in the world?
Consciousness awakening to itself through nature. Standing in the desert at dawn, looking into the night sky, feeling suddenly connected to something infinite — that, to me, is beauty.
STAYING SANE(ish) WITH DR. TRAINWRECK Advice
Question: Dear Dr Trainwreck, I'm a straight man. When I ask my female friends about problems with women (if I can make it so clear that a partner is doing something wrong that they don't immediately take the woman's side) they all just go "Well why would you be...
ART DAMAGED The Higher the Art, The Closer to GOD
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...
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...
