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JULY/AUGUST
2026
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The Rock Makes a Parade
Every morning, I look for two things on my drive down 6th. The first is a girl curled on her apartment building’s alley stoop, smoking a morning cigarette and swiping on her phone. She never looks up. The second is Levitated Mass (2012) by Michael Heizer. Over the...
DUELING REVIEWS: DAVID GEFFEN GALLERIES Two takes on the David Geffen Galleries at LACMA
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...
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...
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. It can’t remember how to recreate what it has lost, or how to dream a new dream. So it...
REVIEWS
LA’S SUMMER THAT WAS A Parade Through the Valley of Ashes
In 1969, just months before Neil Armstrong allegedly walked on the moon, Queen Elizabeth rang in London’s brand-new,ten-mile-long Victoria tube line with a ceremonial ride in thetrain’s front car. Her celebration was warranted: the line was the first of its kind to be...
DEPTS
IN SEARCH OF A CITY September/October 2026
“Los Angeles is 72 suburbs in search of a city.” —Dorothy Parker "We need blood. Quite a bit of it." I was growing desperate; this was probably the eleventh kosher deli I had called that morning. “Don’t worry, it’s not for anything antisemitic,” I clarified. “I’m...
COLLECTING THOUGHTS Tim Zeleny
– Tell us who you are in 50 words or less. Native Californian who views myself as a frustrated artist. I have such an admiration for artists and their talent. Since I could not create art, I made the decision to collect art. My parents were collectors and got the bug...
ART DAMAGED Puppeteer's Iron Hand
STAYING SANE(ish) WITH DR. TRAINWRECK Advice
This month is a tough one. Because this month, I, your trustworthy bona fide font of wisdom and advice, have got nothin’. Yes, I still have my degrees and my experience and years of making mistakes so you don’t have to. But I am also someone’s daughter. Or I was....
AN ARTIST ANSWERS QUESTIONS Jacob Rosenberg
Tell us about yourself in 50 words or less. Mid life. Heavy on nostalgia. Direct and tell stories, make photographs, make books, make commercials. Documented an incredible movement in skateboarding in the early 1990’s; somehow that always keeps coming back. I saved a...
COLLECTING THOUGHTS James Arriaga
My name is James Arriaga. I'm born and raised in Southern California and have been collecting art for twenty-plus years. What started with just collecting Mars Volta concert posters and work from underground graffiti artists that I met at hip hop shows, led me down a...
ROLL CALL (Print only) July/August 2026
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GALLERY DOGS (Print only) July/August 2026
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