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LESS THAN ZERO
On Risk and Art in Los Angeles

I’m at a bar in Palmdale and it’s nearly empty. From where I am sitting, I can see two men playing chess. Or, rather, they’re not really playing—they’re afraid to make a move. It’s Pawn to E4, followed by the all-too-familiar analysis paralysis: finger steadies the piece, eyes tighten, neck cranes and turtles to check for danger, and then…Pawn back to E2. Let’s start again. Every move...

FASHION AT FRIEZE

by Artillery Staff

COLLISION ENSURES REACTION
Getty PST: Art and Science Collide

by Anuradha Vikram

This past fall, I saw over twenty PST ART exhibitions offering contrasting visions of how “art’ and “science” might collide or collaborate. The shows addressed topics from surveillance to biotech to space exploration with dives into artificial intelligence, Indigenous textile-based technologies of the early modern era, and reflections on the environmental precarity of Los Angeles. There were as...

DUELLING REVIEWS: Doug Aitken
at Regen Projects and the Marciano Art Foundation

by Daniela Soberman, Pat Williams

Gallery Dogs & Cats

by Artillery Staff

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Ed Gomez
at the MXCL BNL LAB

The long-running MexiCali Biennial got a recent boost from Mellon Foundation and is currently making its mark in the eastern LA suburb of Whittier. The space, which also houses an archive, MXCL BNL LAB545, is located in an unpretentious storefront, betraying an...

DUELLING REVIEWS: Doug Aitken
at Regen Projects and the Marciano Art Foundation

PAUL THEK
at Hannah Hoffman

I ring the buzzer three, maybe four times at 725 N. Western. No one answers. While I debate whether to abandon my mission, a man with a ladder leaves a side gate open and I slip in. Wandering through a courtyard, I find Hannah Hoffman tucked in the back. This is the...

ANGELYNE
at Melrose Botanical Garden

As I fought through crosstown traffic, the messages came in fast and furious. Hurry up!... Where are you?!... She’s about to arrive!... You’re gonna miss her corvette pull up! When I finally parked and made it to Melrose Botanical Garden, the crowd was spilling onto...

FAYE DRISCOLL
at REDCAT

I’ve always said that I have a crush on dance—on the medium itself, its libidinousness, its structural uninhibitedness, the insanity of memorizing your body’s movements on command and then repeating them. As a writer, I cling to permanence on the page, but...

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