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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...
Fashion at Frieze (print exclusive)
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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...
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.
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...