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...
From the Editor
From the Editor July/August 2020 Issue 6, Volume 14
Dear Reader, You may have noticed there was no May/June print edition of Artillery. Due to COVID-19, funds were low and galleries were shuttered, so we did an online-only issue. But we are back now with a Summer print edition, and we owe it all to a GoFundMe campaign...
Letter from the Editor
Dear Reader, Our weekly newsletter has been addressing our shelter-in-place current status and with that I just want to chime in with most of our like-minded readers; we stand in solidarity with the present justified civil unrest. No one is proud of our country now,...
EDITOR’S LETTER
Dear Reader, The sun is sinking slowly outside my window as I sit at my desk with my trusty old cur by my side. I can feel the cool evening breeze and the quietude is almost alarming. This is a milestone for Artillery’s 13 years in publication: We put all our content...
EDITOR’S LETTER
Dear Reader, The art world as we know it today is an industry. Like it or not, it is a conglomerate not unlike the film or music industry. It is a hierarchical system to be sure, but towards the top, the question of who rules is a little blurry. Is it the art museums...
EDITOR’S LETTER
Dear Reader, This is our sex issue, and I regret to say that since my husband passed away last year I haven’t had much to say on the subject. I haven’t stopped thinking about it, or listening to other people talk about it—it’s just more remote, that’s all. And I don’t...
EDITOR’S LETTER
Dear Reader, Interviews have become my specialty as a journalist, especially if the subject is someone I have admired and whose career I have followed. I still can’t believe my good fortune at having been able to sit down and talk with some of my true heroes. An...
EDITOR’S LETTER
Dear Reader The number 13 is usually considered to be a sign of misfortune, but when you land on it in an unexpected way it can sometimes feel lucky. This September marks Artillery’s 13th year. It seems like a long time, especially for a magazine in this century. When...
EDITOR’S LETTER
Dear Reader, Traveling can sometimes seem like a pursuit for the privileged. But many of us have the wanderlust, and even the poorest of the poor have been known to get around. I have one friend that globe-trots from “residency to residency.” This is her strategy for...
Editor’s Letter
Dear Reader, The inimitable philosopher Walter Benjamin wrote On The Concept of History in 1940 while fleeing the Nazi death machine and his words have never been more prescient: “The tradition of the oppressed teaches us that the ‘emergency situation’ in which we...
EDITOR’S LETTER
Dear Reader, It’s the month of March, so we’re doing a Women’s Issue—not to be confused with the women’s magazines you might find in the dentist’s waiting room; you know, the ones that typically have recipes, makeup tips, lose-weight-fast diets, and advice on how to...
EDITOR’S LETTER
Dear Reader, What's a world without art? Ask me, I think I know. My husband died last September. Since then I’ve balked at art. I despised art. I hated anything that took any time away from those precious hours and days I could have been with him. All the Saturday...
EDITOR’S LETTER
Dear Reader, The death of painting has been declared with either enthusiasm or dejection so many times, as has its corollary, the “improbable” resurrection of the medium, that the tandem seems now like a market gyration—either a panicked sell-off or a spate of giddy...
EDITOR’S LETTER
Dear Reader, The sky outside my office window is thick and hazy; the hot air dry and static. Los Angeles temperatures are hitting record highs and there’s no rain forecast for the foreseeable future. There are forest fires all over California, nearly apocalyptic in...
EDITOR’S LETTER
Dear Reader, Having a food-themed issue in an art magazine seemed a little out of the ordinary when the topic came up. Immediately visions of sugarplums and Wayne Thiebaud cakes came to mind. Then luscious spreads of dead pheasants and fruit bowls followed. Soft...
EDITOR’S LETTER
Dear Reader, Who am I? Isn’t this the biggest existential question? All artists ask this question and continue to explore it. But do we ever get an answer? I watched an excellent documentary on the recently departed comedic genius, Garry Shandling, directed and...
EDITOR’S LETTER
Dear Reader, I’m an artist, who has quit making art. It’s been over a decade since I last shot a video or painted. Yes, I miss the hell out of it, but I’d rather give it up if I can’t give it my all. That was the decision I made when I started this magazine 11 years...
EDITOR’S LETTER
Dear Reader, The new year is a time to look forward, but in this issue we also take stock. Staff writer Ezrha Jean Black does so with her popular (and for obvious reasons, not so popular) Top Ten LA shows of 2017. Ezrha works hard to be fair-minded yet critical, with...