Artillery was always skeptical about the selection of Jeffrey Deitch as director of MOCA. In 2010 we did a cover story musing on the idea of Deitch at the helm. Preposterous! was our first reaction. And we backed it up with interviews from Los Angeles and New York...
"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, 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...
In January, 2012, National Geographic ran a piece called "TWINS: Alike But Not Alike," that used the August, 2011 Twins Days Festival (held annually in Twinsburg, Ohio) as a launching pad for a discussion of the latest scientific advances in twin studies, including...
I awoke at dawn, fuming. I had been having a drink with an actor friend the night before when he dropped the news on me that his buddy, "Josh," whose latest movie he had appeared in, wanted to “do something.” “He’s a great guy,” I was assured, “very funny.” The bar we...
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...
It doesn’t seem long ago that the sight of a young white face in this supermarket was a rare thing, but now the place is swarming with them. They look like the death of youth culture: mopey advertisements for their own redundancy, they sport an awkward array of...
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...
"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...
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...
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...
“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...
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....
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...
"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...
I found myself at a dinner gathering attended by CalArts graduates. Weak-witted art-damaged blather drizzled around the table. A bearded young man sitting opposite me adopted a tone of authority as he held forth on the subject of Chris Marker, explaining who he was to...
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...
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...
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