“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...
Sugar Houses at REDCAT
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...
From the Editor July-August, 2021; Volume 15, issue 6
Dear Reader, It is inexcusable to not be well read, mainly because it’s so easy to fix. Just read more! But who has time? Only recently, when a friend asked what book I was reading, I had to admit that all I’d been reading was art copy. He found that unacceptable and...
OUTSIDE LA: Venice, Italy The 17th International Architecture Exhibition, Venice
The "17th International architecture Exhibition of Venice" is one of the first international events opening in time of COVID-19. The open question that Hashim Sarkis, the artistic director of the current Biennale Architettura, articulates in his proposal seems to be a...
GALLERY ROUNDS: Cristian Castro Building Bridges Art Exchange
Cristian Castro’s latest exhibition, “Robotix: Intersections of Art and Technology,” features new work expanding on his practice repurposing vintage appliances and found objects. Each room is defined by different themes that pertain to the entire exhibition: beauty,...
Frieze New York Fairgoers' Delight sans the Fashion
Frieze New York is back for the first major in-person art fair since the pandemic—and it felt shockingly and refreshingly normal. In a time when the success or failure of an event is often based on how COVID-safe it felt, Frieze did a remarkable job at emphasizing...
From the Editor May-June, 2021; Volume 15, issue 5
Dear Reader, Spring is in the air, skies are blue, daffodils are blooming and the art galleries are opening up. Makes you want to paint or write poetry or string along happy clichés! Yes, the world—at least here in Los Angeles—seems to be emerging from a long dark...
OUTSIDE LA: Tim Simonds Cathouse Proper, New York
Tim Simonds explores the whimsical and political dimensions of pedagogy in his sparse installation of sculptures and drawings at Cathouse Proper. With large trays of bleached-out collard greens on top of semicircular children’s tables, the main room of the gallery...
From the Editor March-April, 2021; Volume 15, issue 4
Dear Reader, It’s been a year now since our world started shrinking; lockdowns and quarantining made our worlds smaller. It was a foregone conclusion that the magazine would also start shrinking. One irony though, is that we gained two editorial pages. But this gain...
ON OUR COVER March-April, 2021; Volume 15, issue 4
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From the Editor January-February 2021; Issue 3, Volume 15
Dear Reader, I was going to start this letter with a Happy New Year! I should, right? It will be 2021 when this January/February issue comes out. We will have brought in the New Year, albeit with less fanfare than usual—it doesn’t take a soothsayer to predict that...
Christmas in the Bunker Free Movies to Hunker Down with during the Holidays
CHRISTMAS IN THE BUNKER With the idea that many readers will be in bunker mode during the holidays, I have rounded up a variety of things that you can watch for free with an internet connection. Some of these were covered in previous dispatches, and some of them are...
From the Editor November/December 2020; Issue 2, Volume 15
Dear Reader, As I write this, the election is little more than a week away. It is possible we still might not know who the next president will be when this November/December issue hits the streets. We will either be celebrating or crying. The already surreal fact that...
Film: Hometown Proud Debut Documentary by Tyler Stallings and Naida Osline
Hometown Proud, the debut documentary by Tyler Stallings and Naida Osline, speaks volumes to our current political and cultural environment. The project grew out of their interest in exploring social issues through their individual practices, for Stallings, as a...
Pick of the Week: Brian Atchley Matter Studio Gallery
Exiting the 110 degree heat at the end of a brutal Los Angeles summer and entering into Matter Studio Gallery to view Brian Atchley’s Being Matter, one name immediately jumped to mind: Robert Mapplethorpe. And for those who visit this show who are familiar with...
From the Editor September/October 2020; Issue 1, Volume 15
Dear Reader, It was unanimously decided that the theme for our September issue would be Democracy. There was no question about it: September is the Fall issue, the grand opening of the art season and more importantly, it’s two months before THE election. We weren’t...
THE GEORGE FLOYD PROTESTS IN LOS ANGELES Photographs by Lara Jo Regan
The uprisings and protests over the death of George Floyd erupted in Los Angeles not unlike its legendary wildfires. The flare-ups were largely spontaneous and unpredictable, some small and contained, others massive and out-of-control. Yet all were fueled with an...
Letter from the Editor
Dear Reader, Black artists have always mattered to Artillery. While we are always interested in representing all races within our pages, we are also aware that we can do more. Everyone can, and the recent protests all over the world are demanding that. As a...