conceptual art

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

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...

The Take Room First impressions on LA Art Week 2026

The Take Room
First impressions on LA Art Week 2026

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...

Amelia Lockwood (quick review) at Morán Morán

Amelia Lockwood (quick review)
at Morán Morán

Amelia Lockwood’s ceramics push up against the natural constraints of their medium in novel ways. Rather than the earthbound, closed forms associated with this medium, we get vine-like, open lattices, expanding outward from a central axis. These echo Rococo decorative...

Terry Powers (quick review) at Guerrero Gallery

Terry Powers (quick review)
at Guerrero Gallery

Powers’ paintings—which range from landscapes to still lives to paintings of mechanical detritus—recall Impressionism, albeit in its most restrained instances: more Pissarro than Monet. That is, there’s a withholding quality towards light and a painterly restraint...

Zoe Alameda (quick review) at Cheremoya

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...

MONUMENTAL GRAFFITI & GLITTERACY RETNA's indecipherable language of pop power

MONUMENTAL GRAFFITI & GLITTERACY
RETNA's indecipherable language of pop power

The glittering paintings wouldn’t be out of place in Giza or Athens or Persepolis. RETNA’s bold scripts are the kind that shout down at you from the tops of ancient monuments. Sometimes elements of the painted characters resemble ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs,...

MOUNTAIN AS METHOD A Look Inside the Mountain School of Arts, LA's Most Mysterious Art Institution

MOUNTAIN AS METHOD
A Look Inside the Mountain School of Arts, LA's Most Mysterious Art Institution

I missed the party. A party that promised nothing less than to reveal the nature of reality. I wanted to go, but the promised revelation of full reality was curtailed by immediate financial reality—I had to go to a wedding out of town the night before and couldn’t...

DUELLING REVIEWS: BRUCE NAUMAN at LACMA

DUELLING REVIEWS: BRUCE NAUMAN
at LACMA

COLLECTING THOUGHTS Erin Saluti

COLLECTING THOUGHTS
Erin Saluti

Tell us who you are in 50 words or less. I am a multi-hyphenate creative and collector, founder of The Edicurial Collection, and founder and creative director of Eittem, a functional sculpture studio in Manhattan. Trained in art history and interior design, my...

LESS THAN ZERO On Risk and Art in Los Angeles

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...

Nadya Tolokonnikova at Honor Fraser

Nadya Tolokonnikova
at Honor Fraser

Nadya Tolokonnikova, the exiled Siberian performer and conceptual artist infamous for her Pussy Riot anti-authoritarian protest disruptions in Moscow—whose Putin’s Ashes artworks landed her on Russia’s most wanted list—has found a home away from home at Honor Fraser...

Duelling Reviews: Joseph Beuys at The Broad

Duelling Reviews: Joseph Beuys
at The Broad

The 40-Year Funeral By Pat Williams There are very few people alive today that can remember a time when conceptual art was considered to be unusual. To most of us it came as a given, buried in among our earliest memories of museum-going. You enter with a parent or two...

Gustav Metzger at Hauser & Wirth

Gustav Metzger
at Hauser & Wirth

The re-examination—some would say reawakening—of radical artistic movements in the postwar era has exposed the technological as well as ideological stew out of which the digital activism of today’s art emerged. The performance and conceptual art of the 1960s...

Excavating Natural History Mark Dion Explores the Sticky Wonders and Legacy of the La Brea Tar Pits

Excavating Natural History
Mark Dion Explores the Sticky Wonders and Legacy of the La Brea Tar Pits

As an urban kid growing up on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, I adored the American Museum of Natural History. The low-lit museum seemed like a palace of wonders to me. In its inner chambers the glowing dioramas of exotic animals in their native habitats appeared like...

FIELD REPORT Art For All: The Gilbert & George Centre, London

FIELD REPORT
Art For All: The Gilbert & George Centre, London

Gilbert & George, the quintessentially British pioneering queer artist-duo have staked a clear position within the milieu in which they operate. They have scant tolerance for art-world conventions, yet it is precisely that peevishness and their enduring, long-term...

ABSTRACTION STUDIES George Legrady's Collaborations and Mythic Narratives

ABSTRACTION STUDIES
George Legrady's Collaborations and Mythic Narratives

Generative AI image synthesis, exemplified by software like Midjourney, DALL-E, Stable Diffusion and similar tools, has captivated widespread attention enabling on-the-fly image creation through text prompts and image prompts. While either text or image quickly...

GALLERY ROUNDS: Louise Lawler Sprüth Magers

GALLERY ROUNDS: Louise Lawler
Sprüth Magers

Since the early 1980s, Louise Lawler has been making photographic works that focus on the collection and presentation of fine art, and the various meanings of “in-situ.” Her early images were straightforward, black-and-white photographs that documented artworks in...

Poncili Creación: No limits, no bounds—only possibilities Hauser & Wirth

Poncili Creación: No limits, no bounds—only possibilities
Hauser & Wirth

Poncili Creación is in LA, preparing to take us by storm with the glory of trash at Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles. In advance of their November 11 performance, Our Name is Moving, I took part in their creative workshop POSSIBILITIES OF MATTER and sat with them for an...

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