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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 reclaimeddesire to intuitions still forming. Top 3 songs? “Azotea”—Luisa Almaguer, “Funnel of Love”—Wanda Jackson, "New...

ART DAMAGED
The Higher the Art, The Closer to GOD

by Justin Gradin

STAYING SANE(ish) WITH DR. TRAINWRECK — (print exclusive) COPY
Essay

by Dr. C. Barnabas Westlake

I am about to get married. Maybe. Probably. And as a part of this whole thing, I find myself spending hours—hours—discussing the particulars of what this marriage is going to look like. What rules are we going to have? How are we going to keep each other safe and make one another feel chosen, loved, and special? How indeed. How, when I know for a fact that he is going to stick his dick in other...

ROLL CALL

by Artillery Staff

LUDOLOGY

by Artillery Staff

lu·dol·o·gy /l(j)uˈdɑlədʒi/ n A field of cultural studies that examines games, the act of playing them, and the players and cultures that surround them. It is also known as game studies or gaming theory. Find an artist who created a portrait of another artist in any medium and then a portrait by the second artist of a third artist in any medium, and then a portrait by the third artist of a...

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Reviews

FLORA YUKHANOVICH
at Hauser & Wirth

Ah, yes, the front room at Hauser & Wirth: the room you usually walk past on the way to the better shows in the back. There’s a certain type of painting one expects here: Blue Chip filler, the type of young artists who get mentioned in Vanity Fair articles. Where...

GRETCHEN BENDER
at Matinée

You get a brief shot of Matinée, a new project space thought up by Los Angeles-based artist Andrew J. Greene, at around minute one of a video posted by a daredevil urban explorer YouTuber, Davy, titled “EXPLORING THE ‘WARNER BROS’ THEATRE IN DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES.” In...

ROOM 8: A CAT IN THE CLASSROOM
at Central Library

Though I grew up with pets, I’ve never taken to them. As a boy, we had a beast of a dog, Soxy. She was scary and insane, except for when my older brother could tame her long enough to let me ride her around like a pony. My mother preferred fish, silent and remote,...

KEN GONZALES-DAY
Luis De Jesus Los Angeles

At Luis de Jesus Los Angeles, Ken Gonzales-Day: Afterlife, shows new digital collages furthering his body of “nevermades;” a term coined by the artist to describe his revisionist reimaginings of Western historical moments and figures bringing into question the long...

YUVAL PUDIK
at NOON Projects

Men in nice suits do not often crawl around on their hands and knees; there’s too great a risk of their shoes getting scuffed, their knees wearing through, or, God forbid, their seams splitting right along their backside. But brave men in suits defied the norms on...

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