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JULY/AUGUST
2026
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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
GARY BASEMAN at Johnie's Coffee Shop Restaurant
Dorothy Parker allegedly said that Los Angeles wasn’t a city. It was “72 suburbs in search of a city.” Maybe it wasn’t Parker, maybe it was Aldous Huxley, or H.L. Mencken. Probably not Ray Bradbury, who argued vociferously for a monorail to connect the 72 suburbs...
EREWHON AT LACMA
Every year for decades, legions of tourists have flocked to the same SoCal landmarks: Hollywood Boulevard, the Griffith Observatory, Disneyland (or Universal, if you swing that way). For a certain subcategory of traveler straddling the line between hippie and yuppie,...
JORDAN WOLFSON for Prada Spring / Summer 2026
I have always felt uncomfortable around birds. I often trace my repulsion to a family viewing of Hitchcock’s The Birds during my tender years, when anything could feel like a personal reference. In that sense, I may be biased—but when a PR pitched me a preview of...
JOHN GIORNO at Marciano Art Foundation
John Giorno seems like a fun guy to have been around. Lively, ready for hijinks. I mean, anyone who’d turn his slumbering nakedness over to Andy Warhol’s camera for six hours must be pretty game. A long-time cultural purveyor within NYC demimondes, Giorno’s...
NANCY HOLT at MAK Center
Who could ask for anything more exquisite and tasteful than Nancy Holt’s rhythmic and spare documentary artworks, installed in R.M. Schindler’s Kings Road house, a place that LA loves to love so much? The land art goddess fits right in among its sun-dappled redwood...
KELLY AKASHI & PHIL PETERS for Los Angeles Nomadic Division
Over Memorial Day weekend, I trekked up to Altadena to visit “Field Set,” a two-day exhibition of works by sculptor Kelly Akashi and sound artist Phil Peters. I was hesitant about visiting Altadena. The sheer emptiness of the area is oppressive and as a longtime fan,...
DEPTS
IN SEARCH OF A CITY July/August 2026
“Los Angeles is 72 suburbs in search of a city.” —Dorothy Parker I awoke this morning, as I often do, in a cold sweat of existential dread, cucked and dwarfed by the infinite. The universe echoed inside of me: thousands of years from now, when future steps on the...
AN ARTIST ANSWERS QUESTIONS Lita Albuquerque
Top 3 dead artists? Yves Klein, Kazimir Malevich, and Ana Mendieta. Each of them understood art as a force larger than the object itself — something elemental, immaterial, and transformative. Their work continues to expand consciousness long after their physical lives...
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...
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
ROLL CALL (Print only) July/August 2026
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GALLERY DOGS (Print only) July/August 2026
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