No wonder your president has to be an actor. He's gotta look good on television. Emmett Lathrop "Doc" Brown, Ph.D. Back to the Future, 1985 It stands triumphantly—a voracious junkyard goat surmounting a catafalque of the written word, a bier of...
The day I sat down to write this opinion piece, I was moved to do so by a feature in The New York Times that both irritated and alarmed me. “Now Virtual and in Video, Museum Websites Shake Off the Dust” the headline read, and the text informed me that the Louvre, our...
Pomp & Zoom Spring usually heralds a spate of art-school grad ceremonies and shows—the equivalent of debutante balls for young artists and designers trained at our august art schools. This year with shelter-at-home and social-distancing mandates in place, there...
The saga of British art dealer Inigo Philbrick is testimony to the pitfalls of the trust and handshake deals that have become customary at the highest levels of the art world. The fall of Philbrick—a protégé of Jay Jopling, the principal of London’s most prestigious...
Dear Babs, As an artist practicing social distancing I’ve begun feeling guilty for not doing more with all this new free time. I look on social media and everyone is being so productive, making art, and learning new skills. I’m not making art or much of anything....
If you weren’t around for the 1970s, it’s a hard era to explain. And thanks to AIDS, there are fewer people left alive to explain the queer experience of that decade. Happily, there are movies. The reason that these movies exist is almost accidental. Budding auteurs,...
Quarantine isn’t much different from my old normal. In case you hadn’t noticed, this column is 99% reviews of things that I receive through the mail or via the web - anything that doesn’t require me to leave home and interact with my fellow art world and academic...
Prior to the arrival of the Spanish in 1771, the Serrano and Paiute indigenous people of Southern California created outdoor parietal rock drawings called petroglyphs in an area of the southern Mojave Desert known as Victor Valley. This once-remote desert is where the...
Congratulations to our winner Bettina Hubby and our finalists. Hubby's photo is seen above and first in our photo gallery in the May/June online issue of Artillery. The following photographs are the finalists. Please see the info below on how to enter for our next...
Delight in past photos from the LA art openings from January thru May 2019. Please tag yourself in these photos our our Facebook page. Enjoy the thrill of seeing people getting together and perhaps little by little we will start to rewind and begin to see art in the...
Fast on the heels of Lari Pittman's most comprehensive solo exhibition in decades, which ran until January at the Hammer Museum in the artist’s hometown of Los Angeles, "Found Buried" is his first at New York City gallery Lehmann Maupin. The exhibition features a...
Currently on display at the Center of Contemporary Art in Santa Fe is the 30-year survey of Mark Spencer’s paintings. Entitled "Beings," this is a rare and all too brief opportunity to experience an important artist. Some artists' practice is to work slowly and...
The outdoor entryway to Various Small Fires is a narrow corridor often used for sound installations. This long passageway opens up into a large gravel back yard perfect for exhibiting sculptures. In "Variation in Mass 1-3," Jacqueline Kiyomi Gordon creates an...
Kathleen Ryan’s second solo show at François Ghebaly, "Bad Fruit," is a masterclass in contemporary object-making. In her massive fruit sculptures, the duality of decay and the cycle of life is on display as Ryan combines the industrial with the natural, the glamorous...
The repetitive quality of the overall patterns in the grids in Ave Pildas' show at Tufenkian Fine Arts create an almost animated effect, a little like standing in one place over a long period of time and blinking slowly. The different figures traverse the space that...
LA-based artist Hayley Barker graces the cover of our special online May/June 2020 issue. Barker is profiled by Julie Schulte and will be showing her new paintings this fall at Shrine NYC.
Red is a color that should never be messed with, diluted, bastardized, cross-pollinated or otherwise appropriated, which calls into question the reason the color oxblood exists at all. If you cut open the belly of an ox, would the seepage of viscera reveal this...
With the help of Zoom and Facetime, I recently paid a virtual studio visit to Megan Marlatt in Orange, Virginia, where she lives in a former commercial building next to the railroad tracks with her husband, photographer Richard Knox Robinson, an Affenpinscher...
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