Jim Hodges
Hammer Museum
I will not lie, Jim Hodges is one of my favorite artists, and the reasons why are innumerable. Like the poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning once…
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LOOKING A GIFT HORSE IN THE MOUTH
Holding Los Angeles County hostage with a ‘gift’: the LACMA Zumthor project revisited
“I’m gonna make him an offer he can’t refuse.” Don Vito Corleone to Johnny Fontane, The Godfather (Paramount, 1972) written by Francis Ford Coppola and…
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Lizzie Fitch and Ryan Trecartin
Regen Projects
Ryan Trecartin and Lizzie Fitch seem to have channeled the Bauhaus’ Oskar Schlemmer—not an easy task, but one certainly worth considering. Working in the vein…
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“Racial Imaginary” at Pitzer College
at Nichols Gallery through December 5, 2014
Pitzer College’s exhibition, “Racial Imaginary,” the visual art component of a larger project that includes a book of essays, musings and poems, demonstrates the fecundity…
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Carole Bayer Sager at William Turner Gallery
New Works, September 18, 2014
“New Works: Paintings by Carole Bayer Sager at William Turner Gallery, September 18, 2014” From Carole Bayer Sager at William Turner Gall. Posted by Artillery…
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Blur and conquer: How Hello Kitty made pets of us all
Hello! Exploring the Supercute World of Hello Kitty, Japanese American National Museum, through April 26, 2015
In case you didn’t notice, Hello Kitty invaded Los Angeles last month. If you were anywhere near Little Tokyo, you could scarcely escape the impression…
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Hurricane Blues
Long Island Artists Still Digging Out from Sandy
During the summer of 2012, artists Eddie Rehm and Kenneth Ian Husband were enjoying something of a personal Golden Age in their tiny shared studio…
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Robert Olson
Luckman Fine Art Complex
Robert Olson was a colleague and fellow art world traveler. From the beginning his work was marked with a deep sense of isolation, and it…
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I’m A Stranger Here Myself: Soundtracks for scary screens and scarred landscapes
Los Angeles Philharmonic, Walt Disney Concert Hall November 7, 2014 – Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor; Susan Graham, mezzo-soprano soloist; video installation by Refik Anadol
The center of the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s Friday evening program was a shimmering pulsation of musical color, both harmonic and timbral, in a field of…
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The Michelle Andrade Story of My Life
Michelle Andrade: Kind of Blue, Charlie James Gallery, through December 20, 2014
There was a moment between the late 1960s and early 1970s when mainstream American mass culture seemed to heave a collective sigh of relief. With…
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New York TimesA 40-foot banner was unfurled inside the central rotunda of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum on Wednesday evening.. . . READ MORE
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We all know what brought us to Los Angeles; the question is what makes us stay. I hate driving; but the one good thing about…
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Editor’s Letter
November/December 2014
Dear Readers,Yes, this is still Artillery. We’ve got a new look, but we’re still the same on the inside. We feel that our revamped design…
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The Guerilla in the Room
Govan and Zumthor’s Big Floor plans for LACMA
From the beginning, the plans for the new Los Angeles County Museum of Art building have been a private collaboration between Director Michael Govan and the Swiss architect Peter Zumthor. This latest chapter in the quest for a new building for the county museum began at a preview I attended in the LACMA auditorium for the exhibition The Presence of the Past on June 3, 2013. More than a preview, it was a show of its own for a project that had advanced without public review, all the way to finalizing the mass, the shape and the exterior circulation of an apparently unconventional new building.
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Ry Rocklen’s Quotidian Bling
Found in LA
Ry Rocklen saved oyster shells, along with some rocks, then tried to unload them one day at a garage sale. “I didn’t sell a thing,“…
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Taisha Paggett Emphasizes Experience
Body Present
Bodies are complicated. Choosing to work with the body as an artistic material complicates its complications. The resulting nest, where taisha paggett settles in to…
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