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RIOT MATERIAL is LA’s premier literary-cultural magazine with an eye on art, word and forward-aiming thought. We likewise focus on niche cinema — Cinema Disordinaire is our best of — Riot Sounds (tracks representing the best in new music) and the latest in Jazz. Our vision, much in the spirit of this great city, is ever-global, working as we do with the best writers, artists, critical and imaginative thinkers from around the world.
We welcome your ideas for reviewing art, literature, music and film, and will consider interviews, profiles of interesting personalities and scenes, social and political commentary, and illustrations entering the public discourse from angles preferably humorous, satirical or of lacerating wit. Source
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| Language | English |
| Country | United States of America |
| Media Market | Los Angeles |
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Search ArticlesA Fierceness Greater Than the Beast She Births: A Review of Chouette
Reviewed by Jennifer Kurdyla Chouette by Claire Oshetsky Ecco Press, 256pp., $13.29 HR If men are from Mars and women are from Venus, then Claire Oshetsky’s delightfully disturbing novel, Chouette, offers a nonplanetary paradigm through which to view the female experience: the bestial. Equal parts magical realist and radical feminist, the novel follows the plight of Tiny, a woman whose journey through pregnancy and motherhood vies with the most dramatic of Hollywood depictions.
Our Babes as Offerings to the Judicial Slaughter
by Garry Wills We are the disgrace of nations because we can’t stop killing our children—along, of course, with their teachers, relatives, and innocent bystanders. We don’t even seem to want to stop doing it, not effectively, at any rate. We say we should, but we don’t. We just can’t. We are worse than the drunk who says he should stop drinking but doesn’t. At least drinking is (or was) pleasant in its early stages. But how can killing be pleasant at first?
Fontaines D.C. Dance the Feet with this Fleet Ditty
Moonage Daydream Dir. Brett Morgan Reviewed by Nicholas Goldwin As one of the greatest shapeshifters in the expansive history of rock music, it seems only fitting that the documentary with David Bowie as its subject never seems content to express the trials, tribulations and artistic triumphs of Bowie in any one fixed way. This is […]
American Agri-Giants Are Swallowing Us Whole
Reviewed by Ian Frazier Perilous Bounty: The Looming Collapse of American Farming and How We Can Prevent It by Tom Philpott Bloomsbury, 246 pp., $28.00; $17.00 (paper) The Farmer’s Lawyer: The North Dakota Nine and the Fight to Save the Family Farm by Sarah Vogel Bloomsbury, 407 pp., $19.89 NYR We are eating a big hole in the middle of the Midwest and sucking up California’s ancient aquifers until the land collapses like an empty juice box.
An Interview with Julian Lennon
by Amadour In this conversation, I speak to Julian Lennon from his home in Monaco about his recent exhibition, Atmospheria, at William Turner Gallery in Santa Monica. These works capture magnificent aerial landscapes from the vantage point of an airplane. A fascinating, multi-hyphenate creator, Lennon shares his insights on photography, the curiosity behind his painterly images, and the world travels that cultivate his passion for humanity and the natural environment. AMADOUR: Hi, Julian.
An Interview with Naama Tsabar
AMADOUR: Hello Naama! Your work is outstanding. I’ve seen your work for many years now. I’m your fan. NAAMA TSABAR: Thank you so much. AMADOUR: I was introduced to your work at Art Basel Miami Beach two years ago at Shulamit Nazarian’s booth. I saw your work, and I remember that’s when I met Seth Curcio at the gallery too. He showed me how your works function sonically, and it is incredible. TSABAR: I’m happy you got to see the booth. Did you check out the Bass Museum that year?
Let the Fountaines Take the Skin Off Your Blister
Moonage Daydream Dir. Brett Morgan Reviewed by Nicholas Goldwin As one of the greatest shapeshifters in the expansive history of rock music, it seems only fitting that the documentary with David Bowie as its subject never seems content to express the trials, tribulations and artistic triumphs of Bowie in any one fixed way. This is […]
Martin Puryear and the Volumes Voiced From Within
at Matthew Marks Gallery, Los Angeles (through 8 April 2023) Reviewed by Lorraine Heitzman In the midst of the frenzy of Frieze week, the quiet of Martin Puryear’s show at Matthew Marks Gallery was practically deafening. Admittedly, Puryear’s art has always been somewhat monastic, even restrained, and the sculptures in this show are no less hushed.
New From the Mods: "Force 10 From Navarone"
Moonage Daydream Dir. Brett Morgan Reviewed by Nicholas Goldwin As one of the greatest shapeshifters in the expansive history of rock music, it seems only fitting that the documentary with David Bowie as its subject never seems content to express the trials, tribulations and artistic triumphs of Bowie in any one fixed way. This is […]
"The Rot," Though a Rose by Any Other Name
by Sue Halpern The Metaverse: And How It Will Revolutionize Everything by Matthew Ball Liveright 352pp., $18.89 NYR In October 2021, when Mark Zuckerberg announced that Facebook would now be called Meta and its business interests would be pivoting to the metaverse, there was almost universal confusion: most observers had no idea what he was […]