Tell us about yourself: I’ve been collecting for more than forty years. During that time, I’ve advised collectors on building collections and helped revive interest in several important artists’ estates. Right now, I’m helping a gallery in Hangzhou, China get started....
1. Top 3 songs “Crisi Metrepolitani” Giuni Russo “My Man’s Gone Now” Latonia Moore “Una Voce Poco Fa” Maria Callas 2. Top 3 dead artists Philip Guston Lee Bontecou Philadelphia Wireman 3. Most valuable lesson learned in art school? I think John Baldessari taught me...
At the tail-end of LA Art Week 2026, Artillery presented The Take Room at Wilshire Online where LA's cleverest writers and critics delivered and discussed their impressions on what they saw and heard during art week. Critics included Matt Stromberg, Janelle...
Tell us about yourself: We see ourselves as both gallerists and collectors. Since opening Fredericks & Freiser in 1996, we’ve spent nearly thirty years championing and collecting idiosyncratic, psychologically charged work. Our personal collection has been built...
Tell us about yourself I explore reclaiming personal and collective agency in a world that erodes it, often through sculpture and light. Lately, I’vebeen returning to painting and collage and trying ceramics to loosenconstraints and follow what emerges—from...
lu·dol·o·gy /l(j)uˈdɑlədʒi/ n A field of cultural studies that examines games, the act of playing them, and the players and cultures that surround them. It is also known as game studies or gaming theory. Find an artist who created a portrait of another artist in any...
Photo recap of an incredible event to commemorate World AIDS Day 2025 held at The Broad on December 3, 2025 featuring a panel discussion with multidisciplinary artists Rubén Esparza, Ken Gonzales-Day, Joey Terrill, and photographer/documentarian Judy Ornelas....
Why do you collect art? Because I can’t not. Art keeps me awake, thinking, and alive. It’s a rush for me. The emotions it evokes for me are some of the most visceral feelings I have experienced. When a piece stirs something in me, curiosity, joy, or even discomfort,...
Describe yourself as an artist. I find it interesting to capture fragments of contemporary life on planet Earth and document them through sound, vision, and movement. Top 3 songs? “Satisfaction” by The Rolling Stones; “Satisfaction” by Devo; “Satisfaction” by Otis...
lu·dol·o·gy /l(j)uˈdɑlədʒi/ n A field of cultural studies that examines games, the act of playing them, and the players and cultures that surround them. It is also known as game studies or gaming theory. Have you read about art that “investigates transcultural...
Artillery catches up with GWAR for their sprawling retrospective at Beyond the Streets. ARTILLERY: Some of GWAR’s songs are actually good—if you’re into thrash. Does it ever bother you that this sometimes gets lost in the focus on GWAR’s wild stage shows? BLOTHAR:...
We asked 12 artists to show us their shoes...
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