Riot Material magazine, like so many of us at the moment, is cash-strapped and unable to pay for new content in the short run, so I wanted to reach out to friends in editorial around the country and internationally to offer paid writing gigs to RM’s outstanding team of writers and critics: Artillery, Art in America, Frieze, Juxtapoz, ArtForum, Aesthetica, Little White Lies, Fangoria, Cinema Scope, Pitchfork, Rolling Stone, Spin, Vibe, DownBeat, JazzTime, Los Angeles Review of Books, New York Review of Books, Paris Review, Atlantic Monthly… to call out but a few. You can’t go wrong with the Riot Material regulars listed, with links to their work in the magazine, below. Feel free to check in with me here for an introduction to any of the writers below to review art (LA, NYC, London), film, literature, music, et all: [Read more…]
Archives for February 2020
LA’s Lynn and John Tejada, Reggie Watts and Wajatta
La Corona | Connecting the Community | LA
LA Power-Couple Extraordinaire, Lynn and John Tejada, along with John’s collaborative cohort, Reggie Watts, make up a loose team of artists and publicists worthy of our attention and celebration. Lynn’s company, Green Galactic, is at the forefront of representing and promoting some of the best artists working in Los Angeles today. If you’re ever in need of a publicist, an intelligent strategist, a good friend, Lynn is your Woman! John and Reggie, both exceptional men individually but together are nothing less than Wajatta, have just released their second album, Don’t Let Get You Down, on Brainfeeder. Here is but one of many fine tracks from this latest release, “Little Man”:
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Supporting The Neighborhood
Riot Material Magazine Is Supporting Its Neighborhood Restaurants During This Unprecedented Crisis.
Osteria La Buca
Amongst The Best In Any Neighborhood
Would Love Your Patronage, and You Will Love What They Deliver!
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Zilia Sánchez’s Sinuous, Overtly Sensual Forms
at Galerie Lelong & Co (ended) and El Museo Del Barrio, NYC (through March 22)
Reviewed by Pheobe Hoban
Cuban-born Zilia Sánchez, 93, has always been ahead of the curve, even if she has remained for the most part unknown outside her adopted country, Puerto Rico. Her elegant, shaped canvases, many of them takeoffs on the female form, hold their own with the best of Minimalism, as does the work of that other long-forgotten and now much-acclaimed Cuban-born artist, Carmen Herrera. But unlike Herrera’s hard-edged geometric Minimalism, Sánchez creates overtly sensual sculptural paintings, with undulating curves and rounded protuberances that resemble breasts and genitalia, while simultaneously evoking spare, pneumatic topographies. [Read more…]