“I was on my way to that dank oasis in the middle of the concrete depths, Cole’s, the disputed French dip originator and pre-Prohibition bar that nourished countless L.A. workers, politicians, mobsters, poets, and artists alike"—Marius Sosnowski

“Even Angelenos' preferred defense mechanism, selective amnesia, can be seen as a precondition for regeneration." —Henry Staley

"There was much else going on in Oxford philosophizing, despite all the “meanings” analytical philosophers hoped to extract from “thought.”—Josef Chytry

"The trip to Georgia showed me that some of us survive wars—not just physically but also spiritually—by preserving culture."—David Stromberg

"A football hits Mary Wollstonecraft firmly on her side. Inscribed below: 'I do not wish women to have power over men but over themselves.'"—Kitya Mark

"For every chapter of Bay Area bohemianism there was Ariel, carving her own channels between 'Beat then Hip, then Rock, Love, the Natural World.'"—Zully Adler

"Motion sensor east hall. Glass break guest room. Patio door open, west hallway motion sensor, panel overheat. Then silence."—Christopher Fudurich

"Donald Trump, in office or on the campaign trail, is not like any other American president."—Jesse Larner

"To accept the Cybertruck as a truck—despite all its futuristic contradictions—is to sign on for Musk’s personal and idiosyncratic utopia"—Rose McMackin

Marius Sosnowski & Sky O'Brien's coverage of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois.

"Mailer repelled reductive, singular definitions and it’s his extravagance of spirit that is clearly the film’s guiding light."—Marius Sosnowski

"Good poetry is always song... Song precedes writing."—Willis Barnstone

"Warhol's works have an uncanny ability to project the viewer, and their preconceptions about the West, back at themselves."—Jacqui Devanay

"Bodies in furious motion here awaiting four minutes in which we yearn to be overcome, rapt in attention, heads upturned for the infinite"—Marius Sosnowski

"'TINM' is full of scenes where everyday life and indiscriminate violence exist side by side until they... flip some unfortunate soul’s life upside-down."—Colm McKenna

"There’s something reverent, even religious, about all these layers. The screen’s protector—its image—is elevated to the status of artwork."—Sky O'Brien

"Art for the People showcases a unique period in American art history... seemingly impossible to imagine today."—Julian Harake

"Bibi, who is a master of manipulation, will hang everyone out to dry before taking responsibility for what has happened to our people."—David Stromberg

"There’s even an argument to be made that Van Gogh effectively ended painting’s landscape genre with these last works"—Jamie Aylward

"Losing a way of life will always be painful. Once lost, the people and places that defined it are gone. All we can do is remember them."—Jeff Hewitt

"Dear California... creates a kind of flipbook effect, collapsing the centuries as patterns emerge and recur across time and place"—David Kipen

"The best books about scientists working together also offer portraits of brilliant individuals in great depth."—Emmerich Anklam

"Through the use of color and shape and his eye for light, Biberman endowed the built environment with a sense of mystery"—Marius Sosnowski

Christopher Nolan's "Oppenheimer," as discussed by the editors and friends of Dispatches magazine—rants, raves, reviews and more.

"The show was called 'The Human Condition' but... you should have called your show 'The Human Condition in Zurich and Chicago'."—Bedri Baykam, by Marius Sosnowski

"She seemed to be suggesting that by having to fight for something that feels so basic, we had somehow lost it already."—David Stromberg

"This latest presentation of Butterworth’s distinctive and sometimes daunting works has bolstered an already formidable underground reputation."—Zara Kand

"As a painter, I’m always trying to ask, How can I say the most with the least amount... How do you edit things out? " —Susan Chen

“A recent exhibition in Paris focuses on the 1930s when the painter’s output reached new peaks"—Jamie Aylward

“In this liminal state between self-hatred and misanthropy, Nakamatsu is left without anyone to turn to, and can only look upon himself with shame"

“I was twenty-two when I last wrote to you. ... How dissimilar you had become to the person I held in my memory." —G.V. Rindborg

“Wang’s feminine characters take on the guise of warriors with metal swords as an empowering symbol... to challenge the status quo." —Xixi Wang

“Steinberg’s line is full of gaps, and, therefore, invites the finest bliss."—Sky O'Brien on Joe Milutis on Roland Barthes on Saul Steinberg

“The Polish master’s Berkeley period is surveyed as one man’s battle to translate struggle into wisdom, despair into perseverance."—Marius Sosnowski

"The restaurant was full. I looked down at the evening sun poking through my Monet mashed potato." —Sky O'Brien

“A film star is not bound by the rules of time and space. Her true currency—imagery—affords her a shot at bliss, a privilege ever stalked by horror."

“Godard's life is a masterpiece of art and commerce and cultural impact and one of the most impressive—and complete—bodies of artistic fulfillment on record."

“I was no longer sure I could trust my senses or my memory. The country seemed corrupted by a latent sadomasochistic impulse." —G.V. Rindborg

"...Perl and Lefebvre’s writing ultimately bears directly on an aspect of the discourse that can get lost in the din: the art itself."

“Thus the present conflict between “Russia” and the “Ukraine” is the latest version of an historic rivalry..." by Josef Chytry

“Today, this overwhelming exhibit still begs the question—what was in the air back then? Maybe trauma, debauchery, or nihilism?"—Jamie Aylward

Chantal Akerman, From the Other Side, an "exhibition as absorbing as seeing the original films on the big screen"—Jamie Aylward

“First and foremost then, one must return to the question already posed: What did the composer himself want?"

“We grew under the sky rather than under a ceiling. We worked to the sounds of nature, rather than the hum of fluorescent lights.”

“The Academy Museum has the potential to be a beacon for the artform—if it can just own its place in the culture." —Marius Sosnowski

“An exhibition of recent works by 32 Los Angeles-based artists, designers, architects, and creative practitioners...inspired by Neutra VDL's numerous structures."—Zara Kand

“These landscapes seem destined to return to what they were before central California was transformed into, what conservationists might call, drowned cathedrals.” —Cole Hersey.

“Hours later, lying in bed half-drunk, I...thought: ‘the intimacy of architecture has been surmounted by sociability.'" —Julian Harake

“With installations spread across miles of the desert landscape, strategic selection is key." —Paris Cotz

“A nonconformist to the end, the New York Times reported that Ferlinghetti died of lung disease, not the virus. He was 101 years old. The lawyers had taken their time." —Sky O'Brien

“What Daub is referring to are those trimmings of pseudo-philosophy and intellectual posturing that tech industry mouthpieces use to pat themselves on the back." —Einam Livnat