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Nuria Noba: "Kopfsprung in Nil" : "Ich habe nicht gewusst, wie mein Vater, wie das Land, wie die Kultur ist" | BR.de
Die Entscheidung, nach Kairo zu fliegen und ihre Familie, ihre zweite Heimat nach 24 Jahren kennenzulernen, ist keine leichte: "Ich hatte einfach krasse Angst.
RECONTAMINATION - Artillery Magazine
LA-based photographer Gerd Ludwig has been recording the aftermath of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster for the last two decades. Here, Artillery presents a selection of Ludwig’s most recent images, focusing on the ghost town of Pripyat. The near-classically surreal tableaus shown in Ludwig’s new work are the result not merely of the meltdown itself, but also of the following decades of disaster tourism, legal and otherwise.
JASMINE JOHNSON - Artillery Magazine
“All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players.” Thus begins the most (and perhaps only) captivating scene from Jasmine Johnson’s film PCH & Heroin, which premiered recently alongside her film Tweakernam at New Theater Hollywood. The line, from Shakespeare’s As You Like It, is one we’ve heard so often as to make its recitation rote. Here, however, it’s not. Perhaps it’s because of the dissonance. The actress on screen runs her lines, changes pitch, starts over.
AMERICAN ARTIST - Artillery Magazine
In a small gallery of the California African American Museum, a wooden table hosting just short of two dozen drawings and a life-size sculptural replica of a chicken coop invoke a perplexing story about institutional partnerships in the contemporary arts. In “Shaper of God: Apple Valley Autonomy,” American Artist—known for their work across sculpture, video, and new media as well as the pointed legal change to their name—presents snapshots from their sprawling archival project.
MARINA WEINER - Artillery Magazine
In a backyard in Glendale, Marina Weiner’s solo exhibition, “Stripe Machine,” cleverly redefines the term “public art.” The art is not shown in public; the gallery, Hermitage Los Angeles, is a small, beautifully built shed behind a private home. Rather, Weiner’s ceramic sculptures take inspiration from public municipal infrastructure, “accidental sculptures” in the artist’s words.
FLORIAN KREWER - Artillery Magazine
There’s an easy attractiveness to Florian Krewer’s paintings that obscures the complex formations of desire within them. At times they seem stripped of everything but their earnestness, but then at others, they are scattered with bold and reckless impulses.
IT SMELLS LIKE GIRL
“It Smells Like Girl,” at Jeffrey Deitch, in conjunction with Company Gallery, shares its title with a Tala Madani painting depicting a suspiciously phallic object, a lone actor against a cloudless blue sky. Stark and funny, the phallus is the main character, but its melodrama gives it a pathetic quality.
ARTIST TAKEOVER: PETER TOMKA
ARTIST TAKEOVER: PETER TOMKA by Emma Christ | Nov 5, 2025
YUVAL PUDIK - Artillery Magazine
Men in nice suits do not often crawl around on their hands and knees; there’s too great a risk of their shoes getting scuffed, their knees wearing through, or, God forbid, their seams splitting right along their backside.
ADAM ALESSI - Artillery Magazine
“fullmoon” is a bit of a homecoming for Adam Alessi. The artist has been averaging around one solo show a year since his sudden art world ascent about five or six years ago, but with the last two having taken place in Italy and New York, Los Angeles has rarely seen his work since his 2022 show at Smart Objects.
NANCY BUCHANAN - Artillery Magazine
Desire can make you sick, or it can make you try. Los Angeles-based artist Nancy Buchanan, working steadily since the 1970s, has consistently chosen the latter. Hair Room (1973/2025), a closet-sized chamber where strings of hair caress the top of your head as you walk through, distills Buchanan’s ethos of seizing what repels—hair, bones, surveillance, environmental and social collapse—and making work from the very point where desire flips into disgust.
IN SEARCH OF A CITY
“Los Angeles is 72 suburbs in search of a city.” —Dorothy Parker I like to go to parties. If you invite me, I’ll come. I never plan to stay long (“I’m just going to make an appearance,” I tell myself), but once I arrive, I end up having a great time and linger until some regrettable hour of the morning. I’ll dance if there’s dancing, sing if there’s singing, eat and drink whatever’s handed to me, and give 200% to a conversation with people I’ll never see again.
AMONG THE THANATOIDS
He owns a mobile home he drives from place to place, crashing where he can for as long as he can, depending on the language in the local zoning ordinances. He works remote contract data entry jobs on a laptop, always connected to free public WiFi, and accepts all payments under the table via money transfer apps. He doesn’t pay for insurance but manages to treat his chronic illness with one-time visits to free urgent care centers and off-label meds sourced overseas.
COLLECTING THOUGHTS (print exclusive)
Why do you collect art? Because I can’t not. Art keeps me awake, thinking, and alive. It’s a rush for me. The emotions it evokes for me are some of the most visceral feelings I have experienced. When a piece stirs something in me, curiosity, joy, or even discomfort, it has to come home with me. Collecting is less about ownership and more about living alongside energy that keeps me awake and thinking. What current art trend are you obsessed with? The return of maximalism.
DUELLING REVIEWS: BRUCE NAUMAN
Playing Bruce Nauman for Beginners At LACMA, Bruce Nauman’s For Beginners (all the combinations of the thumb and finger) (2010) is a large-scale video of two pairs of hands, palms out, holding up—you guessed it— different combinations of their fingers and thumbs.
MOUNTAIN AS METHOD
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 afford the only flight that would get me back in time for the event. I grudgingly accepted that I might be on too tight a budget to leave Plato’s Cave. And what did I miss?
DINNER AND A SHOW
Dinner and a Show offers vehicle-bound and spatially-perplexed Angelenos the plan for a complete night out in LA. I go see an exhibition and tell you where to eat within walking distance of the venue, offering a few thoughts on the show and even more on the restaurant.
AN ARTIST ANSWERS QUESTIONS
Describe yourself as an artist. I find it interesting to capture fragments of contemporary life on planet Earth and document them through sound, vision, and movement. Top 3 songs? “Satisfaction” by The Rolling Stones; “Satisfaction” by Devo; “Satisfaction” by Otis Redding. Top 3 shoe brands? Vans, Bathing Ape, Alexander McQueen. How do you like your eggs? Scrambled with things like veggies, meat and/or cheese, and then burnt to a crisp so they don’t taste like eggs.
ART DAMAGED - Artillery Magazine
ART DAMAGED The Higher the Art, The Closer to GOD by Justin Gradin | Nov 5, 2025
STAYING SANE(ish) WITH DR. TRAINWRECK — (print exclusive) - Artillery Magazine
Dear Dr. Trainwreck, I have a friend with a few mental health diagnoses confirmed by doctors. She has many symptoms, including “rejection sensitive dysphoria”—meaning (as I understand it) she has a hard time accepting any criticism and overreacts to it. I like my friend and want to hang out with her, but this trait makes it very hard to have any kind of serious conversation or resolve any disagreement.
STAYING SANE(ish) WITH DR. TRAINWRECK — (print exclusive) - Artillery Magazine
In no way am I looking forward to writing this particular piece. Truth? I am a little bit afraid to do it at all. Not that the previous columns have been chock full of levity and good times, but this one might piss some people off. Because it is time. We are here. We are going to talk about autism.
GALLERY DOGS - Artillery Magazine
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LUDOLOGY - Artillery Magazine
lu·dol·o·gy /l(j)uˈdɑlədʒi/ n A field of cultural studies that examines games, the act of playing them, and the players and cultures that surround them. It is also known as game studies or gaming theory. Have you read about art that “investigates transcultural neo-hybridity” or “undermines normative articulations of gender” lately? Send us the single most art-bullshit-riddled sentence you’ve read in a published source in 2025, along with a link or photo of the source.
DUELLING REVIEWS: MARY CORSE
A central figure in Southern California Light & Space art, Mary Corse is not a conventional example of the practice, but she is an orthodox one. That is, since her student days, Corse has applied materials and techniques readily associated with “perceptualist” abstraction to ends that exemplify, and indeed have helped to define, its precepts. Corse has realized works and series in standard and experimental formats.
Corita Kent's Fight for Love
Deep in the Los Feliz hills of a more verdant Los Angeles, during the Civil Rights movement, Sister Corita Kent spread messages of joy and feminine power through her art. “Corita,” as she became known, is widely known for her colorful serigraph prints which called for love and justice.
ARTILLERY HAS QUESTIONS FOR GWAR
Artillery catches up with GWAR for their sprawling retrospective at Beyond the Streets. ARTILLERY: Some of GWAR’s songs are actually good—if you’re into thrash. Does it ever bother you that this sometimes gets lost in the focus on GWAR’s wild stage shows? BLOTHAR: Don’t seem so surprised that we write good music! After forty years, we should have learned something.
THE EJACULATORY ESTATE
On a quiet, hilly residential street in Echo Park, behind an unassuming fence, there is a cathedral to freewheeling sexuality, a place where art and sex mingle to such an extent it can be hard to tell the difference. Most Angelenos will be familiar with the Tom of Finland House, the charming 1912 gabled Craftsman where artist Touko Laaksonen drew thousands of horny pictures of cartoonishly sexy gay men in fetish gear in varying states of arousal and intercourse.
COPY WILHELM SASNAL COPY
The news of BLUM’s abrupt closure after 30 years in Los Angeles reframed the landmark gallery’s final exhibition, Wilhelm Sasnal’s “AAAsphalt,” into an inadvertent elegy for contemporary art in Los Angeles. Entering the massive complex on an early July afternoon, I played business-as-usual with the gallery’s skeleton crew, but BLUM’s routine silence was changed—vacuous, tense, and terminal—the swan song of a soon-to-be bygone way of gallery life.
The Exploding Drummer and Me
With one notable exception, the original cast of This Is Spinal Tap were wildly successful thespians playing complete fuckups. Arguably the most iconic character of the lot, the exploding drummer “played” by everyman Ric Parnell, was another story altogether. The tall, angular skin pounder shown pondering the fate of his predecessors—while lounging in a bubble bath with a shower cap on his head—was the role.
FURRY ARTISTS WILL REMAKE THE WORLD
I’m not sure exactly when I accepted that the future of contemporary art belongs to the furries.
BRINGING FORM TO THE FUNCTION
For decades, art and fashion have occupied parallel but distinct tracks. There have been moments of convergence—think Oskar Schlemmer’s Bauhaus ballet costumes, Salvador Dalí’s sartorial collaborations with Elsa Schiaparelli, and Keith Haring’s “Pop Shop”—but the art world generally likes to consider itself above the fickle trends and blatant commercialism of fashion, while fashion, even at its most elite, presents an air of aspirational egalitarianism.
WHAT ARTISTS WEAR
We asked 12 artists to show us their shoes…
DUELLING REIVEWS: MARY CORSE
A central figure in Southern California Light & Space art, Mary Corse is not a conventional example of the practice, but she is an orthodox one. That is, since her student days, Corse has applied materials and techniques readily associated with “perceptualist” abstraction to ends that exemplify, and indeed have helped to define, its precepts. Corse has realized works and series in standard and experimental formats.
CHLOE SHERMAN RENEGADE
The first thing that catches my eye upon walking into the Von Lintel Gallery for an exhibition of photographs from Chloe Sherman’s renowned 1990s series “Renegades” is a large black-and-white print (17.3 × 24 in.) of a half-dozen young women, perhaps in their early twenties, lined up at the counter of a coffee bar, butch-femme-styled in casually improvised variations inspired by everything from bordello-risqué to leather-bar dom, from mock-jock to the street itself.
HOT! AND READY TO SERVE
In her 1986 essay The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction, Ursula K. Le Guin reimagines human history not as a tale of conquest, but as one of containment. She proposes that the first human tool was not a spear, but a vessel—a bag, a bowl, a bottle. If stories are “carrier bags,” containers for experience rather than arrows of action, then ceramics—cups, plates, teapots—tools designed to hold, not to puncture, are their material analogs.
KAORU UEDA - Artillery Magazine
The night I saw Kaoru Ueda’s self-titled show at Nonaka-Hill, I found myself later at a friend’s house watching YouTube videos of marine life. The viewing experience of the vibrating patterned creatures felt nearly identical to Ueda’s obsessively precise paintings of food and other objects floating on off-white or gray backgrounds. Ueda enlarges his subject matter to sometimes overwhelming proportions, with no glint of light too inconsequential to be left unexamined.
THE NEW DAVID GEFFEN GALLERIES
Once, when I was 12 or 13, I was looking at Fernand Léger’s 1925 painting Composition in the European wing of LACMA’s since-demolished Ahmanson Building when I noticed a small termite crawling across the surface. Slightly alarmed, I notified an elderly gallery attendant, who, upon examining the painting for a moment for herself, conjured a crumbled Kleenex from the pocket of her windbreaker and flicked the bug away in an efficient swoop. This was probably not her first rodeo.
NOAH DAVIS - Artillery Magazine
For those familiar with the late painter Noah Davis and the lasting influence of his Underground Museum—the Arlington Heights exhibition space he operated with his wife and collaborator, Karon Davis—the Hammer Museum’s eponymously titled retrospective survey of the artist ten years after his untimely passing may shake up memories of life in a recent, but nearly forgotten, pre-pandemic Los Angeles.
IN SEARCH OF A CITY
Summer is museum season. I’m writing this in early August, a month during which the Angeleno art viewer’s options are fairly clear: Sweat it out on Melrosein pursuit of every lackluster group show; escape to the beach, like the dealers who phoned in those group shows from the shores of the Adriatic(I prefer the South Bay); or spend the day at MOCA, where admission is free and the air is a perfectly calibrated 67°F.
2025 CALIFORNIA BIENNIAL: Desperate, Scared, But Social
Navigating the tension between impulsive expression and mastery of one’s craft is a fundamental aspect of the artist’s journey. A similar tension underscores the construction of personal identity that defines adolescence, and hence, the Orange County Museum of Art’s 2025 California Biennial was wise to set its sights on the Golden State’s rich youth culture.
AND ALL AT ONCE: SUMMER
f you’re reading this, it’s too late. Summer came and went. Pool parties in the Valley? Over. Midnight drives on Mulholland? Gone. We don’t care that you went to Sicily, that your credit score’s crippled because of it, or that you haven’t k-holed at Marcelino’s since you’ve been back. None of that matters anymore. It’s September now. Reality’s calling—time to pick up. I, however, can’t (pick up, that is), because I’m not in September yet. I’m coming to you LIVE! from the past. Late July 2025.
JULIANA HALPERT AND CHRIS KRAUS (With Additional Art by Luis Baez)
To read a novel is to play detective. The detective novel leverages this symmetry: the reader identifies with Sherlock Holmes’s or Philip Marlowe’s driving curiosity. Our favorite sleuths want to get to the heart of the crime; we want to get to the end of the story.
WILHELM SASNAL - Artillery Magazine
The news of BLUM’s abrupt closure after 30 years in Los Angeles reframed the landmark gallery’s final exhibition, Wilhelm Sasnal’s “AAAsphalt,” into an inadvertent elegy for contemporary art in Los Angeles. Entering the massive complex on an early July afternoon, I played business-as-usual with the gallery’s skeleton crew, but BLUM’s routine silence was changed—vacuous, tense, and terminal—the swan song of a soon-to-be bygone way of gallery life.
AN ARTIST ANSWERS QUESTIONS
Self-portrait courtesy of B. Anele. Tell us who you are. Hi, I go by the name of B. Anele. I am a trans disciplinary artist originally from the South, but somehow, I consistently find myself in other locations. My work as an artist has found me in the midst of being someone who is looked out for while being someone who is on the outskirts of those being looked at. I consider my practice to be an ongoing spiritual, physical, and mental endurance and expansion test.
ART DAMAGED - Artillery Magazine
ART DAMAGED Prologue to the Metamorphosis by Justin Gradin | Sep 10, 2025
COLLECTING THOUGHTS
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 background spans interiors, historic preservation, event creative direction, and theatre – writing, directing, and set design What is your art? My art is the walnut sculptures I have designed for Eittem.
LUDOLOGY - Artillery Magazine
Deliver to us, in JPEG form, a pair of artworks—one from before 1900 and one from anytime after—that have an interesting visual connection (that is: one any viewer can plainly see). Most interesting juxtaposition wins! will choose a winner from the entrants. That winner will receive a multi-slide carousel post on our Instagram feed and have their work appear, credited however you like. Game lasts until October 10, 2025. Send your answer to editor@artillerymag.com
POEMS - Artillery Magazine
Drink On It Palm Springs is a white blur, scorched into the fabric of time, an escape from the density of sycophants, uggos, and sadsacks. Until now, I had only seen desert flowers on Instaflam, posted by those true believers eager to reveal their sensitivity to nature. For which I thank them, as I can now recognize flowers in reality, which is revelatory. Do you have it in you to have it in you? Do I have it in me to be the it? Your vanity is an aphrodisiac to me, even more potent than jealousy.
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