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Excerpt from Jaki Liebezeit: The Life, Theory and Practice of a Master Drummer
by John Payne Jaki Liebezeit: The Life, Theory and Practice of a Master Drummer edited by Jono Podmore Unbound, 320 pp., $16.94 The drum master Jaki Liebezeit pursued over a decades-long career an...
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Tales Of The Unconfined: Alison Saar’s Defiant Women Warriors
Syncopation, at L.A Louver, Los Angeles (through 29 February) Chaos in the Kitchen, at Frieze Los Angeles Reviewed by Lita Barrie Alison Saar’s work combines the raw power of tribal art with the...
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The Haunting, Half-Lit World Of Yelena Moskovich’s Virtuoso
Reviewed by John Biscello Virtuoso by Yelena Moskovich Two Dollar Radio, 272 pp., $12.74 “But I see my mind’s asleep. Were it to remain wide awake from this point on, we should quickly arrive at the...
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Dust My Broom: Southern Vernacular From The Permanent Collection
at California African American Museum, Los Angeles (through 15 March) Reviewed by Seren Sensei Folk art and folk artists tend to be an underserved discipline in the contemporary American art world. We...
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Plagued by Fire: The Dreams and Furies of Frank Lloyd Wright
Reviewed by Christopher Benfey Plagued by Fire: The Dreams and Furies of Frank Lloyd Wright Paul Hendrickson Knopf, 624 pp., $35.00 Frank Lloyd Wright isn’t just the greatest of all American...
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Epic Battles In The Epoch Of Streamers
by Steven Rosenthal WORLD WAR MEDIA is fast developing at home and around the globe as some of the biggest players in the home and mobile viewing entertainment arena are gearing up to compete for...
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McCoy Tyner, Greatest Jazz Pianist Of All Time, Is Dead at 81
by Henry Cherry McCoy Tyner’s death was announced on his Facebook page earlier today. Tyner, most famously linked to John Coltrane, was a gale force of rhythmic complexity and ingenuity on the piano....
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Abandoned To The Voice In My Head: King Krule’s Man Alive!
on XL Recordings/Matador Records Reviewed by Henry Cherry Archy Ivan Marshall is a 25-year-old musician who performs under the nom de guerre King Krule. As Krule, he has delivered a stunning portrait...
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Dr. Cornel West Speaks Black Prophetic Fire
An always-welcomed dose of Cornel West, who is the focus of Arturo O’Farrill’s The Cornel West Concerto, a timely recording to be released this week. O’Farrill is onstage tonight with Jacques Lesure...
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Cornel West’s “Democracy Matters in Race Matters”
Preface to the 25th Anniversary Edition to Race Matters Race Matters by Cornel West Beacon Press, 110pp., $11.60 Black people in the United States differ from all other modern people owing to the...
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Organized Anarchy in OOIOO’s Nijimusi
on Thrill Jockey Reviewed by John Payne What are we looking for when we listen to new music? What is most important? It’s not so much that each and every musical experience has to be formally...
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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...
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Connecting The Community
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...
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Subversion As Transmission In klipschutz’s Premeditations
Reviewed by James McWilliams Premeditations by klipschutz Hoot n Waddle, 120pp., $16.00 Premeditations is a poet’s ode to poets. With wry nostalgia, klipschutz (the name author Kurt Lipschutz goes by),...
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In This Moment Of Collective Anxiety, New Images of Man Ponders The Human...
at Blum & Poe, Los Angeles Reviewed by Genie Davis Curated by Alison M. Gingeras, the expansive exhibition New Images of Man is a both a revisiting of and expansion on a 1959 exhibition of the same...
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The LA Times And The Question Of Crisis Deliverance
by C von Hassett The LA Times, once a towering, globally respected newspaper, has become a click-bait web of invasive ads and circus-style barking for subscription servicing that, though intolerable...
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Myth-Making, Storytelling, In The Conversive Contemporary Identities
at LAUNCH LA, Los Angeles (through February 8) Reviewed by Genie Davis Shula Singer Arbel, Carla Jay Harris and Christina Ramos each offer gorgeous, personal, figurative work in Contemporary...
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A Labyrinth Of Interlocking Lives In Jokha Alharthi’s Celestial Bodies
Reviewed by Ruth Franklin Celestial Bodies by Jokha Alharthi, translated from the Arabic by Marilyn Booth Catapult, 243 pp., $16.95 (paper) Review courtesy of The New York Review of Books In an...
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The Beguiling Desolations Of Trisha Donnelly
at Matthew Marks Gallery, NYC by Brian Block In this era of pervasive promotional storytelling, Trisha Donnelly consistently chooses to go the other way and expunge. Her works carry no titles, her...
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Cinema Disordinaire: A List Of Infectiously Strange Must-See Films For The...
Cinema Disordinaire, aka Riot Cinema, is a uniquely selective entry of films that showcase the singular in all of cinema, the seminal, and the utterly sublime come to screen this past half century. And...
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