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DUELLING REVIEWS: DYNATON
JULIA WEIST at New Theater Hollywood
As a kid, spaghetti westerns made me sweat. Not the violence, the dubbing—that quality where a mouth moves at one rhythm and the voice lands just slightly off it, as if the sound had come loose from the body and traveled through some other room to reach me. I hadn’t thought about that in years until I sat down for Julia Weist’s Questioning at New Theater Hollywood and felt my whole body go back...
ALONE, ALONE, ALL, ALL ALONE at Ehrlich Steinberg
Everyone seemed to agree that "Alone, alone, all, all alone was topical. The word hovered around the opening at Ehrlich Steinberg with the peculiar force of consensus: loneliness, online life, avatars, algorithms, the thinning distinction between connection and its simulation. One hardly needs convincing. The exhibition’s premise arrives already confirmed by the conditions outside it. Its title,...
RODRIGO RAMIREZ at Murmurs
When is a human no longer a human? When is the body no longer a body? These questions have been turned over by all manner of modern philosophers, from abortion activists to judges handling necrophilia cases to science fiction filmmakers. Now Mexican-American artist Rodrigo Ramírez Rodríguez enters their ranks. In “Lonely Never Knows Jealousy, Only Despair,” Rodríguez uses painting, sculpture,...
SPENCER FINCH at Lisson Gallery
The soft, subtly enhanced lighting and sheer airiness of the main part of the gallery were the first indications that viewers were in for something slightly different in this exhibition — the artist’s first in Los Angeles (and first with this gallery). I had no idea what was intended in the exhibition title until the first work, Gorgeous Nothing 26, Come slowly—Eden! (all works 2026) reproduced...
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DUELLING REVIEWS: DYNATON Two takes on "Dynaton: Convocation of Radiant Beings" at Chateau Shatto
JULIA WEIST at New Theater Hollywood
As a kid, spaghetti westerns made me sweat. Not the violence, the dubbing—that quality where a mouth moves at one rhythm and the voice lands just slightly off it, as if the sound had come loose from the body and traveled through some other room to reach me. I hadn’t...
THE HATS OF HEDDA HOPPER Counterpoint Records and Books
Hollywood has always needed a narrator, because the creation of real-life mythology relies on being understood and, more importantly, being believed. The unscripted stories of backstage life were exclusive precisely because there appeared to be no obvious writer or...
ALONE, ALONE, ALL, ALL ALONE at Ehrlich Steinberg
Everyone seemed to agree that "Alone, alone, all, all alone was topical. The word hovered around the opening at Ehrlich Steinberg with the peculiar force of consensus: loneliness, online life, avatars, algorithms, the thinning distinction between connection and its...
RODRIGO RAMIREZ at Murmurs
When is a human no longer a human? When is the body no longer a body? These questions have been turned over by all manner of modern philosophers, from abortion activists to judges handling necrophilia cases to science fiction filmmakers. Now Mexican-American artist...