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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...
Perform Chinatown 2013
"Photos By Lynda Burdick" From Perform Chinatown 2013. Posted by Artillery Magazine on 7/30/2013 (30 items) Claudia Bucher Charlie James, Katrina Umber Natalie Loveless Kate Gilbert Kate Gilbert Vela Phelan Skip Arnold with Olivia Tim Youd Tim Youd Mat Gleason of...
Robbie Conal: Fever Dreams
"Robbie Conal, Amir H. Fallah, Mark Licari, Stas Orlovski" From Fever Dreams at Koplin Del Rio. Posted by Artillery Magazine on 7/15/2013 (13 items) L.C. Stas Orlovski and Ruth Weisberg Actress Meagen Fay Kelly and Andy Moses Amir H. Fallah and Robbie Conal Penelope...
The Legend of Lee Reynolds
Ten years ago, I was driving down Venice Boulevard one morning, late to work as usual, when I spotted a large modern artwork among the bric-a-brac in front of a thrift store. It’s got to be a poster, I thought as I circled the block. But no, it was a framed abstract...
The Big Cheese
I’m listening to Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass’ Classics, Volume 1 as I write this. Besides being famous for his ’60s music, Alpert has apparently been making art for almost as long. I ran into his formidable sculptures again recently, this time at the Robert...
Margie Schnibbe; Aberrant Abstractions; Raven Servellon
"Great shows last Saturday in Chinatown. Margie Schnibbe at Charlie James Gallery and Coagula Curatorial's Aberrant Abstraction group show and Raven Servellon's show in the basement." From Chinatown openings June 18, 2013. Posted by Artillery Magazine on 6/18/2013 (18...
The Cell Singer
See Ave Rose do a spoken word and dance performance as The Cell Singer From Aliens in LA at The Standard for Artillery Magazine June 18th, 2013. This was part of Artillery Magazine's book reading series and Aliens in LA did an enhanced reading from the book published...
Hooking up with Margie Schnibbe
Margie Schnibbe has a jungle thing going on in the front reception area of her house, as it seems to be filling with artsy-crafty sculptures made of stuffed pre-dyed and hand-painted fabrics. Some of them have a vaguely Nikki de Saint-Phalle aspect; others could only...
Thoroughly Contemporary
“We are not solely regionally focused,” says Miki Garcia, executive director of Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, which will change its name to Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara next week. “The artists that we show are local, national and international, so...
Venice Biennale Report
A symposium I attended in Italy, “Venice Agendas,” featuring leading curators from institutions such as Tate Britain, Sotheby's and Serpentine Gallery pondering the future of performance art in museums and galleries, initially brought me to Venice this summer....
Samuel Bayer: Diptychs and Triptychs
Perhaps the most impressive thing about Samuel Bayer’s series of photographic “Triptychs,” recently on view at ACE Gallery Beverly Hills, is the complexity of the meditation on desire and representation that they can engender in a [male] viewer. These 16 12-foot...
Happening 2013: LACE Benefit Art Auction
"LACE auction this year was a blast. Pieces went for cheap... a Mike Kelley for only 3K, a Richard Jackson for about the same, Raymond Pettibon for a mere $4000. You missed it. And the liquor was flowing. Copious vodka drinks where the bartendars ending up getting...
IN LOVE WITH THE ANIMALS
Born in the late 1970s, contemporary artist and neo-muralist Fernando Corona grew up in and around Mexicali’s vivid and visceral street culture. Receiving a scholarship to study fine art, he traded tagging for painting, establishing himself as one of the city’s most...
Lisa Adams: Second Life
Steve Rogers Betty Brown, David Eubank Llyn Foulkes, Lisa Adams, Dark Bob Nancy Evans, Karen Carson Calvin Phelps, Paul Redmond Barry Markowitz Dave Shulman, Jeffrey Vallance Tracey Harnish, Dark Bob, Llyn Foulkes, Peter Frank Dark Bob, Barbara Smith...
Gary Baseman:
The Door Is Always Open
Jessy Schwartz and ChouChou Shepard Fairey Gary Baseman Profile Gary Baseman and Tobys Gary Baseman With Sketchbook Gary Baseman and Orange Girl Gary Baseman and Carina Round Christian Clayton Henry Clayton Christian Clayton Coleman Clayton Mark Ryden and Marion Peck...