"Launch party of the Hennessy V.S Limited Edition bottle designed by Shepard Fairey. July 11, 2014 Photos by KirillWasHere" From Hennessy X Shepard Fairey Launch. Posted by Artillery Magazine on 7/15/2014 (12 items) Ludovic Leroy, Pratt Institute; Ed Schilling, Ralph...
Kara Walker’s BITTER SUGAR
Pierced by the oblique rays of a setting sun pouring in from the yellowing skylights, the bowels of the abandoned Domino’s sugar refinery in Brooklyn appear like the nave of a rusted cathedral. For two months this spring that majestic industrial ruin was the setting...
Happening Benefit at LACE
"http://www.welcometolace.org/events/view/happening-2014-lace-benefit-art-auction/ Photos by Lynda Burdick" From Happening 2014 LACE Benefit Art Auction. Posted by Artillery Magazine on 7/01/2014 (16 items) Jonathan Silverman, Giles Miller, Kelly Coats William Moreno,...
Editor’s Letter
Dear Readers,When I started writing as opposed to making art, there was a lot of disapproval from my friends and colleagues. I was thrilled with my new creative outlet and found it to be more gratifying than painting. One comment from an editor was a little puzzling....
Jemima Kirke: The Girl Can Paint
A small crowd gathers around the entrance to Fouladi Projects gallery at Market and Guerrero in San Francisco. A doorman with a long list in his hand gives me the uneasy fear that I won’t be allowed into the opening, on account of the über-hip celebrity inside. But I...
PRIVATE EYE: Edward Goldman
One rainy afternoon, Edward Goldman’s parents popped into the winter palace of the Russian Czars, known today as the state Hermitage Museum of Russia, with their young son. The next time it rained, Edward asked to go again to the “place where naked men and women are...
Incognito: JR, Banksy, Fairey
Remaining anonymous coupled with becoming a globally recognized figure is no easy feat; it seems almost a requirement of celebrity status that the entire world know your name and face. The crux of what has catapulted some into the spotlight also necessitates a need...
More Pricks than Kicks
I have often been encouraged to launch a Kickstarter campaign, but I have never been able to decide on a specific project that justifies urging potential donors to dig deep into their pockets on my behalf. There are so many Kickstarters these days and there is only so...
Celebrity in the Art World’s Iron Age
THAT WAS THEN THIS IS NOW. Ed Ruscha’s lithograph and the banner image for his 40-year survey at Gagosian Madison Avenue says it all: it was a different art world when Ruscha arrived in Los Angeles in 1956. Now, he’s blue chip and according to my editor, a...
C.O.L.A. at LA Municipal Art Gallery
"Opening Reception hosted by the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery Associates. Sunday, May 4 Photos by Lynda Burdick" From C.O.L.A. @ L.A. Municipal Art Gallery. Posted by Artillery Magazine on 6/30/2014 (22 items) Elena Rosa Carole Ann Klonarides, Jordan Biren Carole...
BUNKER VISION: La Dolce Vita
In a recent documentary called $ellebrity, we are treated to the spectacle celebrities face every time they try to leave their abodes. If a good shot of a celebrity can fetch a high price, there might be 50 photographers yelling insults to get a dirty look. Such an...
DECODER: Shades of Fame
Art fame is a weird fame: I know artists whose work has been seen by millions who can’t pay the rent. I know artists with unrecognizable names who could pay rent for a year with half a piece.Unlike the film or music industry, fine art isn’t based on selling lots of...
Starchitecture Now!
Editor’s Note: With the highly-coveted Pritzer-Prize awarded this year to architect Shigeru Ban—known just as much for his disaster relief projects and elegant, temporary paper-tube architecture as for his commercial and institutional works—we asked Martina to weigh...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Melinda Machado Media Contact,National Museum of American History T: (202) 633-3129The National Museum of American History to Exhibit Artworks by Presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower, Ronald Reagan, and George W. BushThe National...
Return of the Vile Vampire
And the vampire pendulum swings back to another extreme: vile, wretched, diseased and genocidal. The FX channel is due to air The Strain this July based on a trilogy written by Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan: The Strain (2009), The Fall (2010), and Night Eternal...
Altered States: Lygia Clark
“The Abandonment of Art, 1948–1988” at MoMA showcases more than 300 pieces by the groundbreaking Brazilian artist Lygia Clark whose ultimate emphasis was on the sensorial experience of art. Altering the viewer’s perception and experience of her objects permeates...
Giuseppe’s Factory
Celebrity can be problematic. In fact, celebrity is one of the most poisonous influences on individual and collective human psychology at work in contemporary society, undermining the concept of individual creative autonomy as it unilaterally erases millennia-old...
GET THEE TO THE GETTY
I am so glad I made sure to see the just-visiting Jackson Pollock painting at the Getty before it leaves this weekend—I did procrastinate a little. The painting, Mural (1943) has been at the Getty for an extended facelift. It’s now beautifully restored and has been on...