Dear Reader, My late husband was a historical biographer with four published books; three of them were written during our marriage. It was an eye-opener to live with someone who writes for a living. For one thing, it seemed like he did a lot of nothing. He would...
From the Editor
PICK OF THE WEEK: American Artist REDCAT
Octavia E. Butler's speculative fictional imagining of Los Angeles seems to inch closer and closer to nonfiction as our apocalyptic reality grows louder and hotter by the day. At REDCAT, the exhibition of new work by American Artist shows how Butler’s words are so...
CODE ORANGE: The Exhibit A Curatorial Photography Project by Laura London
CODE ORANGE: THE EXHIBIT. A Curatorial Project by Laura London JUNE 11–JULY 9 OPENING RECEPTION SATURDAY, JUNE 11, 5-7 ROBERT BERMAN GALLERY Bergamot Station Arts Center CODE ORANGE is an Artillery column conceived in 2016, the year Trump got elected. It is designed...
From the Editor May-June, 2022; Volume 16, issue 5
Dear Reader, This issue is about art being made outside of Los Angeles and New York. If art is being made and shown at reputable galleries in those cities, it has the stamp of approval: Collectors can feel safe that their taste is superb and their investments are...
New York Art Week Future Fair and NADA report
New York is buzzing with art. The city is currently playing host to four fairs: New Art Dealers Alliance (NADA), the European Fine Art Fair (TEFAF), Future Fair and Independent. The inaugural Art Week (May 5-12) resembles pre-pandemic days where every hour seems to be...
THEATER REVIEW: Ann Pasadena Playhouse
To do a one-woman play is a challenge; to do a one-woman play about a noted public figure and keep the audience enthralled for two hours is a tour de force. That’s what Holland Taylor manages to do in Ann, which just opened at the Pasadena Playhouse (through April...
OUTSIDE LA: Greater New York 2021 MoMA PS1
Having opened after an entire year’s delay even as the COVID-19 pandemic entered its third year, the fifth iteration of MoMA PS1’s signature major survey of art in New York City, titled "Greater New York 2021," finds the curatorial team of in-house Curator Ruba Katrib...
Letters in Exile By Maria Agureeva
Since her residency at the 18th Street Arts Center four years ago, artist Maria Agureeva has been based in Los Angeles. Born in Ukraine and attending art school in Moscow, she travels periodically to Moscow, where a gallery supports her work and various collaborative...
GALLERY ROUNDS: Tidawhitney Lek Sow & Tailor
LA-based painter Tidawhitney Lek’s first solo show “House Hold” at Sow & Tailor comprises 10 paintings and two sculptures, examining the personal dichotomies experienced by living in contemporary LA while concurrently being “held” by familial trauma—particularly,...
GALLERY ROUNDS: The Brand Library & Art Center "Let Me Talk"
“Let Me Talk” at The Brand Art Center has a lot to say. Curated by artists Ada Pullini Brown and Jill Sykes, the group exhibition’s inspiration comes from a fierce quote by Toni Morrison, stating “In times of dread, artists must never remain silent.” This varied body...
LA Art Show is Back Highlights, Fair ends this weekend.
Commandeering a mere 180,000 square feet the of the Los Angeles Convention Center’s 760,000, the LA Art Show Modern + Contemporary, resurrected after last year’s COVID cancellation, offers a brief glimpse of the offerings of more than 80 galleries—foreign, domestic,...
From the Editor November-December, 2021; Volume 16, issue 2
Dear Reader, I had the unexpected pleasure of spending four hours at Harvard’s Fogg Art Museum with my 93-year-old mother-in-law recently. Not that visiting the Fogg is unusual—we’ve done it for years, practically every summer. But this time we spent four hours...
GALLERY ROUNDS: Christina Ramos; Jack Winthrop; Judy Ostro Gabba Gallery
Three vastly different solo exhibitions make up the current exhibition at Gabba Gallery. Vivid and dense color is the keystone of Judy Ostro’s abstract patterned work in Never Too Late. Both mosaic and kaleidoscope, Ostro draws the eye and keeps viewers unbalanced in...
From the Editor September-October, 2021; Volume 16, issue 1
Dear Reader, Happy Birthday to Artillery for turning 15 this year! And to celebrate this milestone we are covering how the world is going to hell! The climate crisis is our September theme and it wasn’t an impromptu decision or stop-the-presses situation because of...
DOUG CHRISMAS ARRESTED AND CHARGED WITH EMBEZZLEMENT
Art dealer Douglas Chrismas, the former long-time owner of LA’s storied Ace Gallery, was arrested July 27, 2021 and charged with embezzling $260,000 from Ace Gallery’s bankruptcy estate. Chrismas pleaded not guilty and was released on $50,000 bond. He was spotted by a...
In Living Color: Felix LA 2021 Art IRL at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel
Felix LA, the fair that for two years has run concurrently with Frieze LA, is once again at the Roosevelt from July 29 through August 1. This time it is going up without the auspices of the larger Frieze fair, which first delayed in February, then fully cancelled in...
Sugar Houses at REDCAT Rosanna Gamson/World Wide
“Sugar Houses” is another production that was stopped in its tracks last year by COVID, but fortunately REDCAT has managed to stage it as their first live production since the pandemic shutdown, if only for a week (July 8 -11). This kinetic piece of dance-theater is...
GALLERY ROUNDS: Desire Encapsulated at Make Room
Make Room's new location in Hollywood is a private garden courtyard leading into two exhibition spaces. This space, on a balmy, LA-summer evening, infused with the ethereal charm of director Emilia Yin, leant an alluring hush on opening night and afforded the...