“Raymond Pettibon: A Pen of All Work”

As this New Museum survey shows, Raymond Pettibon has been a chronicler of America’s dark side for more than three decades, first as the in-house designer for the L.A. punk band Black Flag, then as a zine publisher and finally as an art star. Completely self-taught, Petition channels comic books, pulp fiction and film noir into text heavy drawings bristling with cynicism and spleen. The visual profusion on display here also speaks to his prodigious output of pieces, one that numbers in the ten of thousands at this point.