Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles (Carla) is a quarterly magazine and online art journal, committed to providing an active source for critical dialogue surrounding L.A.’s art community. Carla acts as a centralized space for art writing that is bold, honest, approachable, and focused on the here and now.

Carla issue 19 Contents include: 

Letter from the Editor
-Lindsay Preston Zappas

Parasites in Love
-Travis Diehl

To Crush Absolute: On Patrick Staff and
Destroying the Institution
-Jonathan Griffin

Victoria Fu: Camera Obscured
-Cat Kron

Resurgence of Resistance: How Pattern & Decoration's Popularity Can Help Reshape the Canon
-Catherine Wagley

Trace, Place, Politics: Julie Mehretu's Coded Abstractions
-Jessica Simmons

Exquisite L.A.: Featuring: Friedrich Kunath, Tristan Unrau, and Nevine Mahmoud
-Claressinka Anderson & Joe Pugliese

April Street at Vielmetter Los Angeles
–Aaron Horst

Chiraag Bhakta at Human Resources
–Julie Weitz

Don’t Think: Tom, Joe and Rick Potts at POTTS
–Matt Stromberg

Sarah McMenimen at Garden
–Michael Wright

The Medea Insurrection at the Wende Museum
–Jennifer Remenchik

(L.A. in N.Y.) Mike Kelley at Hauser & Wirth
–Angella d’Avignon

-KJ