Short Takes

Gillian Sneed on Rosemary Mayer
1:1 invites writers to reflect on a single work of art with focus, care, and imagination to expand how we view, receive, and write about art.
Jan 26
Get Yourself a Human Barbell
Jamie Peck on what happens when bicoastal feminist DIYers use one another as exercise equipment during a punk show.
Jan 24
Bukowski and Li Po
Ever wondered where Charles Bukowski would take a travel companion of his choice in California? Well, wonder no longer.
Jan 20
By the Sea
Danielle Monique decided not to go to Jamaica, but found herself at the beach anyway (and without even having to go to the Westside).
Jan 19
Sharp, Creamy, Fresh, Funky, Nutty
Brandon Sward attends a reading at a Downtown L.A. gallery and finds a well-balanced cheese board of the literary present.
Jan 18
Walk on the Wild Side
Brittany Menjivar was so preoccupied with whether or not she could, she didn't stop to think if she should (luckily, she was right).
Jan 16
L.A.’s Uncool School
Damon Willick returns to an important moment in Los Angeles art history and finds it more diverse than some might remember.
Jan 15
Looking Back on “Art Inside”
Ginny Emiko Oshiro reflects on Annie Buckley’s Art Inside series and her work with the Prison Arts Collective.
Jan 14
Currant Jam, Customland, and the “Vagina Dream Cave”
A. J. Brown attends the latest alt-lit reading in Frogtown and is still picking stick-on face gems out of their hair.
Jan 13
Backseat Filming
Emma dePaulo Reid explores what it might mean to experience the Russian invasion of Ukraine from the backseat of a van.
Jan 11
Ama Codjoe on Robert Pruitt
1:1 invites writers to reflect on a single work of art with focus, care, and imagination to expand how we view, receive, and write about art.
Jan 10
Theme Park or Museum?
Jack Skelley tours Luna Luna, an art theme park recently resurrected by Drake, containing work by Basquiat, Haring, and others.
Jan 6
Reporting Live from Hell
Madeleine Connors shells out for fascism cosplay and finds that sometimes the games are best left on screen.
Jan 5
Revolutionary Blake-splaining
For Jack Skelley, William Blake has it all: from colonization and sex to post-structuralism and the superego.
Jan 4
Into the Red, White, and Blue Twilight
On the occasion of Tom Smothers's death, John Kaye reflects on words unsaid, questions unasked, avenues unpursued.
Jan 3
How the West Was Revised
Rebecca Giordano considers the transformation of the Western genre, both its limitations and its possibilities.
Dec 24, 2023