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Contact: Melinda Machado Media Contact,National Museum of American History T: (202) 633-3129The National Museum of American History to Exhibit Artworks by Presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower, Ronald Reagan, and George W. BushThe National...
Ryan Trecartin Reaches for the Supporting Stars
If you have not seen Ryan Trecartin’s videos, imagine flipping at break-neck speed through 500 channels of reality TV contestants in garish makeup reading random fragments of text from the Internet out loud. More readily, you could also just go check them out on Vimeo...
Silly Putty – The Selling of Jeff Koons
One thing that came across in Jeff Koons’ recent Broad-sponsored (“Un-Private”) conversation with John Waters was a sense of the satisfaction Koons took from his work as a bond salesman and commodities trader on Wall Street. His fascination with commercial exchange...
Lydia Emily “Bound” at Garboushian Gallery
"Opening Receptionat Garboushian Gallery in Beverly Hills Saturday, May 17, 2014 http://www.garboushian.com/index.php" From Lydia Emily "Bound". Posted by Artillery Magazine on 5/27/2014 (9 items) Evan Senn, Steve Baxter Jim Morpheses, Roxene Rockwell Juri Koll...
GUEST LECTURE: Mike Kelley
Mike Kelley participated in our Guest Lecture series by providing this spread that he designed specifically for the centerfold of our March/April issue of 2009. John Waters is also the featured cover story in this very special issue.
The Un-Private Collection: Jeff Koons and John Waters
"An art talk co-presented by The Broad museum and the Library Foundation of Los Angeles’s ALOUD series and held at the Orpheum Theatre on Tuesday, February 24, 2014 in Los Angeles. Photos by Ryan Miller/ The Broad © Ryan Miller/The Broad, 2014." From The Un-Private...
To Protect & Serve: Philippe Vergne
The word he kept returning to was “conversation,” which, under less pressing circumstances, might have described our interview, except that Philippe Vergne, MOCA’s new director, was on a something of a treadmill. He had scarcely been on the job 10 days, and had...
Mike Kelley: Part 2
Mike Kelley said for years that he would agree to be profiled in Artillery. That was practically a running joke when we would see each other at art events. Finally, in early November 2011, I contacted him to make it happen. He emailed to say he was very busy but he...
American Gumbo: Wayne Thiebaud
While most people half his age are searching for their car keys, Wayne Thiebaud, now 93, peppers conversations with literary references and recalls in vivid, sensual detail the coat that Hans Hoffman wore at an art reception 50 years ago—“it was so thick that it...
The Unruly Muse
When I first read about Beatriz da Costa’s exhibition last year in Southern California, it sounded intense; I was intrigued and determined to see the show at the Laguna Art Museum. It featured da Costa’s most recent work drawing on the practice of engaging the...
Jeffrey Vallance Presents A Seance with Andy Warhol
Who knew? Who knew that Andy Warhol would become an angel, full of love and the love of God and the beauty that surrounds him in the heavens above? Last night, at the Underground Museum in Los Angeles, artist Jeffrey Vallance conducted a séance with psychic medium...
Roberto Gil de Montes: Hecho en Mexico at Lora Schlesinger Gallery
"Lora Schlesinger Gallery photos by Eric Minh Swenson" From Roberto Gil de Montes: Hecho en Mexico. Posted by Artillery Magazine on 4/23/2014 (10 items) Roberto Gilde Montes, artist talk Molly Barnes, Lora Schlesinger, Roberto Gil de Montes, Joan Quinn Farrah...
William Kentridge’s “The Refusal of Time”
William Kentridge's dazzling "The Refusal of Time," at New York’s Metropolitan Museum, marries science and art in an installation that comprises a 30-minute, 5-channel video featuring live stop-action animation, the spoken word and music projected on three walls of a...
Spectacular Subdivision in Wonder Valley
The desert is a surprising place, and we see it anew when artists are drawn there by site-specific projects such as “Spectacular Subdivision,” which took place recently in Wonder Valley over the weekend of April 4 through 6. About 35 artists made work for two sites,...
Robbert Flick: “Freeways,” at Rose Gallery
When I was just out of school and began my first regular daily commute of the Southern California freeways, I remember stealing glances to either side of the road. I caught brief glimpses of the fleeting vistas, noting how with every quarter mile, my vantage point...
POP-EYECONIC Group Show at Corey Helford Gallery
POP-EYECONIC Group Show, posted by Artillery Magazine on 4/01/2014 (17 items) Artist Chris Anthony and his girlfriend, Jessica Spotts, with his piece "Josephi... Artist Eric Joyner with his piece "Life Before Hamburgers". Artist Joey Remmers with his...
Alexandra Manukyan’s “Beautiful Disaster” at Corey Helford Gallery
"Images courtesy of @[362039667819:274:COREY HELFORD GALLERY] http://www.coreyhelfordgallery.com/shows/alexandra-manukyan/info-press/" From Alexandra Manukyan's "Beautiful Disaster" Opening Night. Posted by Artillery Magazine on 4/01/2014 (6 items) Alexandra Manukyan...
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...
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...