What is the most beautiful thing in the world?
Consciousness awakening to itself through nature. Standing in the desert at dawn, looking into the night sky, feeling suddenly connected to something infinite — that, to me, is beauty.
Articles
AN ARTIST ANSWERS QUESTIONS
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 interested in such a terrible person?" When I ask men, they understand why you might be interested in a less-than-perfect woman but...
ART DAMAGED The Higher the Art, The Closer to GOD
ARTIST TAKEOVER: KYRA COLE
The Julia Stoschek Foundation Asks: What if a lot of videos were in one place and it was spooky? "What a Wonderful World" at the Variety Arts Theater
The Renaissance Revival-style Variety Arts Theater normally sits dormant at the chaotic corner of Figueroa and Olympic. However, for six weeks, from February 6th to March 20th, the theater hosted “What A Wonderful World: An Audiovisual Poem,” a presentation from the collection of the Dusseldorf-based Julia Stoschek Foundation. The exhibition spanned everything from contemporary video art to...
Reviews
Zoe Alameda (quick review) at Cheremoya
The centerpiece of this show is From Here On Out (2025): a large, ramshackle, free-standing, scrap-wood armature supporting two plexiglass panels, embedded with four small assemblage-paintings, themselves containing collaged, miscellaneous photographic imagery...
DUELLING REVIEWS: MARILYN MINTER at Regen Projects
R. CRUMB at David Zwirner
R. Crumb’s “tales” (even filtered through psychedelics and cannabinoids) weren’t always so paranoid—though they were frequently calamitous. The street-hip graphic domain Crumb freely improvised during the 1960s and 1970s across densely cross-hatched black-andwhite...
MOSIE ROMNEY at Sebastian Gladstone
I felt dizzy at mosie romney’s show “every Spiral has its law” at Sebastian Gladstone. I could chalk it up to external factors (fatigue, harsh gallery lighting), but I suspect that the work itself was the incubator of disorientation. My previous visits to the space,...
TRENTON DOYLE HANCOCK & PHILIP GUSTON at Skirball Cultural Center
Entrusted to the sprawling Skirball Cultural Center in Brentwood by New York’s Jewish Museum, “Draw Them In, Paint Them Out” presents a handful of Philip Guston’s depictions of cowled Ku Klux Klan figures, alongside Trenton Doyle Hancock’s ambitious, mixed media...