Emma Christ

Los Angeles

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She Sees What He Says

2 days ago | artillerymag.com | Emma Christ

Sophie Madeline Dess, who has written clever short stories and perceptive pieces on Cormac McCarthy, Eva Hesse, and many other things for many prestigious and worthwhile publications, has produced a novel about Ava and Demetri, a critic and an artist. They are brother and sister, unusually close, with fates entirely entwined. That was a good idea. What remains of our creative class should inventory itself while it still can.
IN SEARCH OF A CITY — (print exclusive) - Artillery Magazine

2 days ago | artillerymag.com | Emma Christ

I came to the screening wearing the outfit compulsory for all such events: a faded and frayed sweater in a neutral color, sexless jeans, and a dirtied canvas tote. I had composed this outfit to signal my status as a true believer—my monkish intent to remain forever materially impoverished but spiritually rich.
Helmut Lang's Burdensome Bodies

2 days ago | artillerymag.com | Emma Christ

The R.M. Schindler House is unexpectedly quiet. Despite being smack-dab in the middle of West Hollywood, there’s a noticeable lack of noise around the house and grounds, as if the air is somehow thick enough to deaden dog barks and car horns. The silence somehow feels borne of the house rather than its surroundings. As one of three Los Angeles headquarters for the MAK Center for Art and Architecture, the Schindler House—the namesake of architect Rudolph Schindler—feels like a break in time.
MOURNING SICKNESS

2 days ago | artillerymag.com | Emma Christ

Thérésa Tallien, the French Revolution’s ‘it’ girl, knew how to manipulate perception. Once an emblem of revolutionary glamour, she played the game until it turned against her. Even in captivity, awaiting execution, she refused to become a simple object of pity. The mirror sent to her cell each day wasn’t punishment; it was a tool. Stripped of adornment, starved, pale, she studied herself—not to break, but to refine the performance.
COLLECTORS CORNER: Danny First — (print exclusive) - Artillery Magazine

2 days ago | artillerymag.com | Emma Christ

Tell us who you are in 50 words or less:I live, collect, and breathe art. For the past ten years, I’ve run the La Brea Studio Artist Residency,The Cabin LA (according to ArtNewspaper: “Per square foot, the most influential gallery in LA”), and The Bunker LA. Two alternative exhibition spaces in LA. I also sculpt. What do you require from an artist you collect? Originality. Even if other artists heavily influence them. Favorite place to meet with an artist outside of their studio or your home?
Ramsey Alderson - Artillery Magazine

2 days ago | artillerymag.com | Emma Christ

It’s a matter of complete coincidence that Ramsey Alderson’s show “d’Or” at Tiffany’s—an East Hollywood artist-run garage space programmed by Adam Verdugo—coincides with the 17th anniversary of the notorious Emos vs. Punks Fight held in Mexico City’s Glorieta de Los Insurgentes (2025) in early March of 2008.
Jacqueline Humphries

2 days ago | artillerymag.com | Emma Christ

We recognize the legacy Jacqueline Humphries is working from the moment we set foot in Matthew Marks’ two gallery spaces; yet something throws the viewer slightly off.
Gregg Bordowitz - Artillery Magazine

2 days ago | artillerymag.com | Emma Christ

I left Gregg Bordowitz’s recently-closed exhibition at The Brick, “This is Not a Love Song,” thinking the same thing as upon leaving The Brutalist: “I didn’t know it was going to be so Jewish.” In both, the artist’s Jewish identity weaves through a deep consideration of form as such. I might even cheekily add that in both cases, the interest in form manifests in concrete specifically.
Alex Israel - Artillery Magazine

2 days ago | artillerymag.com | Emma Christ

To prepare for his current show “Noir” at Gagosian, Alex Israel claims to have walked about fifteen thousand steps per day around Los Angeles. This is highly unusual and, honestly, suspect. As the saying goes, no one walks in LA. Yet Israel insists on it and says that all this walking clued him into the more subtle, textured aspects of the city —things “[he] wouldn’t ever clock from the car window”—which ultimately informed his paintings.
Duelling Reviews: Jon Rafman

2 days ago | artillerymag.com | Emma Christ

The precepts of psychoanalysis—that each person has an ego and a subconscious, that some explanation for who we become can be found in childhood—so thoroughly shape the way we think about contemporary life that it hardly matters if Freud got it right. Our language and stories are now irreversibly determined by the collective embrace of the discipline. Chief among Freud’s innovations, now de facto, was his idea that our dreams have meaning and can be interpreted.