Articles
Dong Hoon Jun
I often feel the need to escape the insincerity of Los Angeles for the non-ironic nature of the desert. Hollywood’s slapstick tradition seems to have similar desires. A rock, maybe a bit browner than his companions, sits at the bottom of a boulder-pile. We watch the...
Jim Skuldt
During a studio visit, Jim Skuldt points out that milk crates around the world don’t come in a single standard size and shape, as one might have thought. He points to a few of his that are filled and stacked beneath a large desk and loaded onto roadie carts that came...
Kim Stringfellow
Kim Stringfellow’s photographs of derelict cabins that sit within the high-desert landscape of the Mojave provide a necessarily familiar entry point into “Jackrabbit Homestead: Tracing the Small Tract Act in the Southern California Landscape.” This, the artist’s most...
Farrah Karapetian
It’s been a productive year for Farrah Karapetian, a participant in “The Black Mirror” group show at the Diane Rosenstein Gallery, L.A. Louver’s 2013 “Rogue Wave” survey, and the 2013 California-Pacific Triennial at the Orange County Museum of Art. She has also been...
Stellar Stoller
“Insights into Architecture,” inspired by architectural photographer Ezra Stoller (1915–2004), who is known for chronicling modernist architecture from the late 1930s to the 1970s was on display at the Palm Springs Art Museum from May 25 to October 6. To comment on...
Post-Classici
The Palatine Hill, and the Roman Forum beneath it, is a marvelous place to visit if just for the archeology and history. Now a viewer can see how contemporary artists interact with these ruins on a large scale. The exhibition “Post Classici,” curated by Vincenzo...
Doug Aitken’s Mystery Train
The traveling art bash “Station to Station” concluded its nationwide tour in Oakland last week and it just goes to show: There’s nothing like a road trip fueled by a cool million in corporate donations for having a good time.
New Season Openings at Pacific Design Center
"NEW SEASON OPENINGS on Sept 18, 2013. Some great shows and people..." From PACIFIC DESIGN CENTER. Posted by Artillery Magazine on 9/27/2013 (18 items) Alisa Yang Annie Wharton Stephanie Duton and Cathy Stone at Another Year in LA Darrick Stone and Michael Hawley...
Magic Carpet Ride
From the shaded parking lot, a stark beam of light shines through the loosely shut double doors of a nondescript white brick building. It is late morning, and the sun is already beginning to assert its presence as I approach the now-defunct Regen Projects gallery. It...
HOLLYWOOD IS THE SEXIEST
Since the 2012 opening of his eponymous Hollywood gallery, Perry Rubenstein has exerted considerable influence on the contemporary art world, while imbuing several exhibitions, such as his recent “The Humors,” with intellectual and symbolic perspectives that reference...
DESTINY TRUMPS DESTINATION
La Cienega Boulevard, as it traverses Beverly Hills, West Hollywood and Los Angeles, appears not to have changed much over the last few decades, until you hit Venice Boulevard. Trailing south into Culver City, the character of the boulevard shifts dramatically. What...
RECREATING RECREATION
while a long wait line at an LA museum is a rarity, here in New York you could easily pass an hour chatting in the line for the Met or MoMA or merge with the crowds in Chelsea. Late spring, the visceral experience of looking at art together with so many other curious...
SF Report: PERFORMANCE LAB
“And there it is...” Sage Charles smiled as he deftly inserted the business end of a baseball bat into the supine body of Ron Athey as part of the initial preparations for “Messianic Remains,” the latest installment in Athey’s “Incorruptible Flesh” performance series....
The Road at Luis De Jesus Los Angeles
""THE ROAD" JULY 13–AUGUST 17, 2013" From Luis De Jesus Los Angeles. Posted by Artillery Magazine on 9/03/2013 (9 items) Aaron Wrinkle, Margaret Haines Lily Stockman Jonathan VanDyke Masood Kamandy, Brandon Andrew Chris Engham Molly Larkey Britton Tolliver John...
FILM: SECOND ACTS
While sagas of personal transformation are a staple of recent nonfiction filmmaking—from U.N. peacekeeper Roméo Dallaire’s inexorable drift into despair (and back) in the CBC’s Rwanda documentary Shake Hands With the Devil, to crack-mom Kirk White’s unexpected ascent...
Books: To (Richard) Hell and Back
Richard Hell swaggers up the side-walk, as if in a private movie that is being played out for the pleasure of others, as if he is being watched—which he is. Full of himself. Happy: yes, I suppose that’s another word for it. And why wouldn’t he be happy? He is about to...
Fort Worth’s Modern Celebrates 10 Years
Jenny Holzer’s “Kind of Blue” was the show-stopper at the recent “Tenth Anniversary Acquisitions” exhibit at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. Holzer’s blue LED strips cascading from ceiling to floor in a 12-hour loop of “truisms and quotes” floated from the...
Sister Act: Perform Chinatown After-Party at HRLA
Nao Bustamante kicked off Human Resources LA’s July 27th benefit and Perform Chinatown After-party with characteristic mischievous flair. In the preamble to her performance, as she was thanking HRLA for inviting her and thanking us for being there to support the...
Scrawling for Dollars
The large brightly-lit room of the Armory at last month’s Monster Drawing Rally was crowded with people—and it was hot. I’m one of the artists participating in this fund-raising event where around 25 artists draw for one-hour shifts, hang the completed work on a...
Blood, Salt Water and Gasoline
Through the heart of every true Southern Californian, there flows a passionate mixture of blood, salt water and gasoline. "Kustom Kulture II" is a celebration of this Life and Style. Grab your sweetie and a blanket, revv the rod and head down to the sands of...