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Month: March 2014
Into the Widening Gyre
How will the end of the world play out? With a bang or a whimper? With mournful lamentation or furious dies irae? Vengeful and wrath-laden or becalmed? In paroxysms of grief or a hemorrhage of hilarity and hysteria? Well of course it will be all of these...
Doug Harvey at Jancar Gallery
Doug Harveyat Jancar GalleryDoug Harvey, whose a regular contributor to Artillery, is also a terrific artist as his newest exhibition entitled, Found Moldy Slides, at Jancar Gallery can attest. Weirdly haunting, and sometimes just plain haunted, these images celebrate...
Hans Ulrich Obrist: the art of curation
The GuardianI think a good curator is like a good chef. They understand the city's needs – and fulfil and challenge them. How do curators and artists work with each other? Ideally, it's a collaboration in which one inspires and challenges the other. The best thing a...
Puke Performance Artist Paints The Standard
Puke performance artist Millie Brown just returned from the South by Southwest Festival where she “performed” with Lady Gaga. The UK artist has recently relocated to Los Angeles and painted her colored vomit canvas to a very small crowd in a rare performance at club...
Julie Adler at Campbell Hall Art Gallery
Julie Adlerat Campbell Hall Art GalleryJulie Adler’s recent exhibition of paintings, monoprints, etchings, linocuts and more at Campbell Hall Art Gallery suggests a fiercely compelling and singular mind at work. Mining an intensely personal vein and responding to the...
Still Howling – Ron Athey
I wasn’t even sure I would be admitted to the room where most of the performance took place. There was a small throng gathered in the courtyard. Another part of the audience was already assembling in the Billy Wilder Theatre, where the performance would be...
Guest Lecture: F. Scott Hess
The subject matter of several of my recent paintings derives from screwed-up iPhone panorama photographs. For centuries art linear perspective has ordered the space of paintings, determining how we look at an image. In panorama mode my iPhone-5 liberates the mind from...
Marc Selwyn’s Inaugural Opening
"Art luminaries came out to celebrate a new gallery for Marc Selwyn Fine Art: On February 16, 2014, invited members of Los Angeles’ vibrant art scene convened in the newly renovated historic 1940s Al Grimmet’s Garage, that has been transformed into the sleek, new...
Zackary Drucker and Rhys Ernst put queer consciousness on the front burner
NY TimesIn “Relationship,” a photo exhibition currently on view at the Whitney Biennial, the two have chronicled that process and the evolution of their own love affair. (In a recent preview of the Biennial, Holland Cotter of The New York Times wrote that the...
Mary Jo Bole at Jose Drudis Biada Art Gallery
Mary Jo Boleat Jose Drudis Biada Art Gallery/Mount St. Mary's CollegeOne does not necessarily equate tombs with toilets, or more metaphorically speaking, these two types of “evacuation” – one of the body, the other of the soul, yet Mary Jo Bole creates an exquisite,...
Heart of Darkness – Britten’s Billy Budd
From its troubled (I almost want to say stuttering) conception and creation, through its earliest publication – barely stitched together, edited, revised, corrected, re-edited – Melville’s Billy Budd is steeped in ambiguity – ambiguities integral to the dramatic and...
Paige Wery Opens Good Luck Gallery
uncompromising tangPaige Wery’s latest endeavor takes her full-circle back to her interest in self-taught artists with the opening of The Good Luck Gallery, Chinatown, Los Angeles, which will exclusively exhibit non-formally trained artists. The Good Luck Gallery’s...
ARMORY SHOW 2014
And all the Rest: ADAA, Independent, SCOPE, (UN)FAIROn Friday, I started the day off with another VIP event, this time at Scandinavia House hosted by the Nordic consulates. (You’ve got to hand it to the Scandinavians. In addition to everything else they get right,...
Birds of a Feather
Was that a review I just read or did the snooze alarm go off again? The way they box up the art reviews in the Los Angeles Times, it’s sometimes hard to tell. The reviewer, Sharon Mizota’s focus seems to be on formula – which is not inappropriate here: the subject...
Editor’s Letter
Dear Readers,Troublemaker Dave Hickey blew into town last month. The outspoken art critic held forth at the Grand Central Market, gracing Angelenos with his caustic observations about the corroding art world. There was much tweetin’ and hollerin’ after (and apparently...
TRADING PLACES
When I drove up to Zackary Drucker’s home off San Fernando Road, the front door was wide open—a startling sight since most of the surrounding houses have metal bars over the windows and doors. The Los Angeles video and performance artist lives in Glassell Park, an...
Psychedelic Shack
If one thinks of the essence of Modernism as being about direct experience rather than recreated experience, the artist who has really continued to expand possibilities is James Turrell. A striking aspect of his retrospective exhibition at the Los Angeles County...
