Articles

POINT OF NO RETURN
The life, death and rebirth of No Mag— stapled-together staple of the LA punk scene

When Ewa Wojciak met Bruce Kalberg, she had just received her MFA and landed a job as the art director of the recently launched LA Weekly. Kalberg was working as a temporary assistant in the accounting office. Their first lunchbreak together, Kalberg told Wojciak he wanted to show her something. He led her out of the building to his VW Bug, parked right out front on Sunset Boulevard. The car was...

DUELING REVIEWS: ALAKE SHILLING
Two takes on Alake Shilling’s Buggy Bear at the Hammer Museum

by Brittany Menjivar, RC Peck

ARTIST TAKEOVER: OLIVIA MOLE

by Olivia Mole

The Take Room
First impressions on LA Art Week 2026

by Artillery Staff

At the tail-end of LA Art Week 2026, Artillery presented The Take Room at Wilshire Online where LA's cleverest writers and critics delivered and discussed their impressions on what they saw and heard during art week. Critics included Matt Stromberg, Janelle Zara, Keith J. Varadi, Brittany Menjivar, Paige Greco, Sampson Ohringer, Renee Reizman and NiggaCorp. [video width="720"...

AT HOME IN THE CHAOS
In the studio with Zak Smith

by Casey Ash, with additional reporting by Artillery Staff

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.

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Reviews

CANDICE LIN
at Whitechapel Gallery

At first, the installation in London’s Whitechapel Gallery seems childish: flimsy cardboard walls covered in forests, foliage and animals, all painted with loose brushwork, like set design the adults painted for their kids’ school play. In Candice Lin’s world of...

RADICAL PRINTS: Chicano Prints from the Smithsonian American Art Museum
at The Huntington

The Smithsonian, the nation’s cultural voice established by Congress in 1846, is under attack. Financially seeded by Englishman James Smithson, who was ostensibly enamored by the great American Experiment, it has since morphed into the world's largest museum,...

JAKE SHEINER
at Tyler Park Presents

The title of this exhibition, “Disappear Here,” is a reference to Bret Easton Ellis’s novel Less Than Zero. It alludes to the reality of anonymity in a city in which fame and glamour are the reigning myths. However, the works on hand only reflect these themes in a...

LILY CLARK AND ASH ROBERTS
at François Ghebaly

At the center of “Dew Point,” the current exhibition at François Ghebaly, hangs artist Lily Clark’s Inyo (2025), a sculpture of much poetry and power. Clark suspends a large hunk of alabaster from the rafters where water drips from the rock, filling up a steel basin...

ART’S BIRTHDAY: The Anatomy of a Celebration
at Marciano Art Foundation

“Thus time goes by,” Robert Filliou writes at the end of Whispered Art History (1963), the short document in which he declares January 17th the official birthday of art. In Filliou’s telling, art begins not with genius or mastery but with an ordinary gesture made...

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