Ars longa, feriae dubius: Art Los Angeles Contemporary
Barker Hanger, Santa Monica – through Sunday, February 1st
I sometimes wonder what the point of an art fair is anymore. I mean, isn’t that why we ‘let our fingers do the walking’ through…
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Jason McLean
Wilding Cran Gallery
First of all, soda and gardeners don’t usually go together; that’s not to say that all gardeners must abstain from soda or that soda doesn’t…
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The Middle Passage – Andrew Voogel’s Black Water
Dark Work for Dark Stars at Young Projects [PDC]
It’s a commonplace of urban life that certain social or cultural venues exert disproportionate influence simply because of their size and leverage in the community. …
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Calling A Moratorium On The American Dream
Your American Dream is someone else’s nightmare
Like many other American citizens, I listened to President Obama’s State of the Union address Tuesday evening. Full disclosure: I was an early supporter of…
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Monique Prieto
LAM Gallery
Monique Prieto’s newest exhibition aptly titled Hat Dance, on view at the brand new LAM Gallery on Highland Avenue, charts like the banned Mexican dance…
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Figaro “Unbound”—but undocumented: ¡Figaro! (90210)
Los Angeles Opera’s “Off-Grand” prelude to its “Figaro Trilogy”
It’s been said that The Marriage of Figaro (or, more precisely, The Mad Day, or The Marriage of Figaro, as it was originally titled) was…
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HIKE, HACK / HIC et NUNC
XPO Gallery at Paris
I was generally sympathetic to the examination of remote machinic vision on display at XPO Gallery, with their presentation of a Brooklyn-heavy group show that…
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The opening night of the LA Art Show offered the usual enticements—free food and drink, opportunities for schmoozing and networking, celebrity-gawking—but it also happened to…
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Max Presneill
Garboushian Gallery
Max Presneill has broken through to the “other side” and by this I do not mean he’s cavorting with spirits, but simply that he has…
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“I have no choice but to be optimistic,” a friend of mine remarked to me the other day; and I get it. But I ‘m…
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Robert Heinecken Object Matter
Hammer Museum
Robert Heinecken was truly obsessed with modern culture and all its sometimes unfortunate and always ubiquitous vicissitudes. Using a wide range of materials including photography,…
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Je suis Charlie. Je n’ai pas peur—mais je vis dans le déni complet. (Part I)
Conflicting ‘freedoms’ and the global assault on free speech
Let me first say that I did not expect to be revisiting the issue of free speech so soon after examining the overblown rhetoric and…
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Western Project
11-years Anniversary Group Show
“11-Years Anniversary Group Show” From Western Project. Posted by Artillery Magazine on 1/07/2015 (11 items) Kohl King, Christian TedeschiMargaret Griffith John Weston Samantha Fields Carole…
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Editor’s Letter
January/February 2015
Dear Readers Happy New Year! We start off 2015 with a survey of Asian art. I’ve been wanting to cover contemporary Asian art for quite…
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China: Ai Weiwei on Alcatraz
Flowers in His Hair
On a clear sunny day there’s a press preview for the ambitious “@Large: Ai Weiwei on Alcatraz” exhibition. Famous for its former use as a…
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