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LOS ANGELES FESTIVAL OF MOVIES 2026
Artillery on the Street

DAY ONE It is the cardinal sin of every writer who’s been based in LA long enough to wax poetic about the various versions of the city that seem to exist in conversation and contradiction with one another at any single point of time. A dilemma that filmmaker and film critic Thom Andersen more or less had the final say on when it comes to cinema through his, now canonical, essay film Los Angeles...

Linda Rosenkrantz’s Day
We talk with the writer behind Peter Hujar's Day about the art of reconstructing a reconstruction

by Matthew Chan

In filmmaker Ira Sachs’ Peter Hujar’s Day (2025), over the course of 76 minutes we hear acclaimed queer New York City photographer Peter Hujar (Ben Whishaw) recount the contents of his previous day on 18 December 1974 to writer and personal confidant Linda Rosenkrantz (Rebecca Hall), leaving no detail unturned, no cultural figure (ranging from Fran Lebowitz to Susan Sontag) unmentioned. Sachs’...

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

by Stephen Piccarella

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

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Reviews

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

MARINA STERN
at Bel Ami & CW American Modernism

All of Marina Stern’s work is weighty. The objects in her intensely matte, sleek oil paintings and densely packed graphite drawings receive an egalitarian touch. In contrast to often airy and delicate subjects—paper, string, and flowers—Stern’s quality of paint is...

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...

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