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- Contributors
- Luke Studebaker, Namik Mačkić, Angella d’Avignon, Dalya Benor, Shane Reiner-Roth, Ben Derlan, Jasmine Benyamin, Enrique Ramirez, Piper French, A. V. Marraccini, Sasha Plotnikova, Katya Tylevich, Steffie Nelson, Russell Fortmeyer, Renée Lynn Reizman, Robert Nashak, Caroline Tracey, Eric Lawler, Nicolas Kemper, David Michon, John Southern, Aubrey Bauer, Maddie Connors, Eva Hagberg, Claudia Ross, Alissa Walker, Steven Chodoriwsky, Wendy Gilmartin, Mimi Zeiger, Ian Volner, Katy Barkan, & Katie Angen
- Editor
- Samuel Medina
- Deputy Editor
- Marianela D’Aprile
- Guest Editor
- Mimi Zeiger
Articles
As a place shaped by mass media from above and below, Los Angeles begs for criticism composed of the very same stuff.
In Los Angeles, the fantasy and the reality of the movies live side by side.
Is a plan to restore the Sepulveda Basin the equitable climate action LA needs?
At Hollywood Forever, the California lifestyle may be dead and buried.
There’s plenty still unknown about the Lucas Museum, but one thing’s for sure: It’ll look good on the screen.
The garden is a livewire biology of gossip, a thing heard through—but also is itself—a grapevine.
I can’t disentangle dingbat apartments from the memories of the years I have spent in Los Angeles.
Van Nuys Government Center is a stand-in for downtown democracy flung out to the suburban hinterlands.
Disney’s desert expansion brings magical thinking to the Coachella Valley.
The organizers behind Los Angeles’s latest Olympics run seem content with standing still.
Reviews
Los Angeles: The Development, Life, and Structure of the City of Two Million in Southern California by Anton Wagner, Edward Dimendberg (ed.), and Timothy Grundy (tr.). Getty Research Institute, 384 pp., $70.
To read Anton Wagner reflexively means to engage with his Los Angeles not as a product of its historical context, but a refraction of our own.
ED RUSCHA / NOW THEN, curated by Christophe Cherix with Ana Torok and Kiko Aebi, ran at the Museum of Modern Art from September 10, 2023 to January, 13, 2024. The exhibition opens at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in April.
What is it that we want from Ruscha? What does New York want from the idea of LA?
Visions2030: Earth Edition Festival ran from September 15 through 24 at the California Institute for the Arts.
For the team behind this eco-futures festival, optimism is radical. But is it enough?
Catalyst: In Collaboration with EPOCH Gallery ran from June 16 to August, 26, 2023, at Honor Fraser Gallery.
Here’s another thing about gamification: It doesn’t work.
Sphere, designed by Populous, opened in Las Vegas in October 2023.
Without its umbilical connection to the Venetian Expo, at any time this Sphere might just roll away.
From Within: The Architecture of Helena Arahuete, curated by Silvia Perea, ran from September 23 to December 17, 2023, at the Art, Design & Architecture Museum at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
An exhibition’s celebration of Helena Arahuete’s draftsmanship reiterates the incredible technical facility and breadth of knowledge required to be a good architect.
M³: modeled works [archive] 1972–2022 by Thom Mayne and Morphosis. Rizzoli Books, 1008 pp., $50.
But if models are a myriad of things and also not those things, what is a hefty volume full of discourse-heavy texts and chockablock with photographs of models?
