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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 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...

Linda Rosenkrantz’s Day We talk with the writer behind Peter Hujar's Day about the art of reconstructing a reconstruction

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...

ART DAMAGED The Higher the Art, The Closer to GOD

ART DAMAGED
The Higher the Art, The Closer to GOD

AT HOME IN THE CHAOS In the studio with Zak Smith

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...

POEMS

POEMS

The Bride of Frankenstein Late at night, I glimpse my ideal woman. Problem is, she exists only on TV. Nonetheless, I am smitten. Seams divide one perfect cheek into three continents. Her impersonation of an angry swan is so feral that I long to fill my mouth with...

Desert X

Desert X

Since 2017, I have been among the 1.7 million people who have participated in the art biennial-cum-treasure hunt to seek out large-scale, site-specific contemporary art installations scattered throughout the Coachella Valley desert, the land of the haves and...

STAYING SANE(ish) WITH DR. TRAINWRECK Ask Dr. Trainwreck

STAYING SANE(ish) WITH DR. TRAINWRECK
Ask Dr. Trainwreck

Trying to Navigate LA Dear Dr. Trainwreck, Can you talk about chasing fame and how that affects friendship? I’m from the Midwest and came out to California for art school. I’m fresh out of school (one year) and was able to get pretty good gallery representation early...

LUDOLOGY

LUDOLOGY

Mary Woronov: A Survey West Hollywood

Mary Woronov: A Survey
West Hollywood

Mary Woronov, Chelsea Girl, writer, actress and painter, is currently displaying her luscious punk-rock paintings in a Pop-up exhibition at an old Land Rover/Jaguar dealership in West Hollywood. This is a rare opportunity to see this extraordinary survey of her unique...

Musing on the Island The Catalina Museum for Art and History

Musing on the Island
The Catalina Museum for Art and History

The Catalina Museum for Art and History invited Artillery for its 70th anniversary fundraiser and art auction. Who knew, maybe we could bid on some donated art and enjoy a day trip for a good cause. The rather large Spanish-tiled building—surrounded by vacation-rental...

PICK OF THE WEEK: Martine Syms Sprüth Magers

PICK OF THE WEEK: Martine Syms
Sprüth Magers

Martine Syms’ solo exhibition, “Loser Back Home,” is an epic, multidimensional collage of material and media. It's a labyrinthine of various avatars and personal significations spanning video, photography, painting, drawing, and sculptural installation, forming a...

Here and There The Art at Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival 2023

Here and There
The Art at Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival 2023

The first weekend of the 2023 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival has come and gone, celebrating not only the best of music but of visual art, both locally and internationally. I was invited to meet with the slate of artists chosen by Paul Clemente with Raffi...

OUTSIDE LA: Printed Matter San Bernardino Valley College

OUTSIDE LA: Printed Matter
San Bernardino Valley College

Linguistic determinism suggests that language dictates perception and perceptions are reflected in one’s language. Therefore, when art intersects with politics, the result is "Printed Matter," the current exhibition at San Bernardino Valley College’s Gresham Gallery....

Mr. Brainwash Goes to Beverly Hills And the Richest Man in the World has plans for a Luxury Hotel in Beverly Hills

Mr. Brainwash Goes to Beverly Hills
And the Richest Man in the World has plans for a Luxury Hotel in Beverly Hills

The late-morning crowd lining up under the sports-car replicas on the wall of the old Paley Center was in a buzzy mood. Patiently waiting to gain access to the “Mr. Brainwash Museum” were an assortment of retirees, matrons and members of the spray-tanned classes—a...

More Diverse, The LA Art Show LA Convention Center, February 15-19

More Diverse, The LA Art Show
LA Convention Center, February 15-19

The opening of the LA Art Show Wednesday night attracted thousands of art lovers, collectors and celebrities who came to meet artists and view artworks from around the globe. Visitors of should expect an endless stimulation of artistic imagination and creations that...

Black Diaspora Emerging Artillery and Glendale Library Panel Discussion

Black Diaspora Emerging
Artillery and Glendale Library Panel Discussion

Chance the Rapper, the announced headliner of Artillery’s “Black Diaspora Emerging” forum at Glendale Public Library January 28, was sidelined by a sudden illness, disappointing the organizers and many attendees. But even if the "Black Star Line" failed to dock in...

Publication in the Age of Negation, Part VI An Old White Male, Inconveniently Still Alive

Publication in the Age of Negation, Part VI
An Old White Male, Inconveniently Still Alive

Why even catalog these grievances? I just wanted to get a book published. The documentation of this tedious process wasn’t something that could hold much interest for the average reader, whoever that was, or any reader, if there were any left. I had wrongly assumed...

BOUNCING IN THE ARTIST’S BUBBLE, PART TWO

BOUNCING IN THE ARTIST’S BUBBLE, PART TWO

Click Here for Part One “Bouncing in the Artist’s Bubble" The womb of an artist’s bubble reflects one's spirit; the exoskeleton can expand with joy and contract in pain. A new project ballooned into bliss. I was having a chat at Coffee Talk in Kaimuki with friend...

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