Congratulations to our winner Gregory J. Amani Smith and our finalists. Smith's photo is seen above and first in our photo gallery in the March/April online issue of Artillery. The following photographs are the finalists. Please see info below on how to enter for our...
LA Fair Report The fairs are bursting out all over in February—and I just have time to jot down a few notes before deadline. Photo LA (Jan. 30–Feb. 2) is going strong for its second year back on the westside, in the Barker Hangar. This is LA’s longest running fair, in...
More than a re-imagining of the Michael Jackson story, Julien Nitzberg’s play, For the Love of a Glove, serves as a point of departure for a wildly surreal take on an already bizarre life, from the troubled entertainer’s repressed childhood in Gary, Indiana, to the...
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...
Museums and Unions The Marciano Art Foundation has closed, abruptly and in a cloud of controversy. Since its opening in 2017, most of the employees worked part-time, handling visitor services and making close to minimum-wage salaries. On November 1, District Council...
Congratulations to our winner Lauren Anderson and our finalists. Anderson's photo is seen above and first in our photo gallery in the January/February online issue of Artillery. The following photographs are the finalists. Please see info below on how to enter for our...
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...
Go Directly to Go The fall art season has taken off like a steeplechase, with so many openings on the weekends that one can take in barely a fraction of them. In addition to the shows at galleries and museums (Lari Pittman at the Hammer and Echiko Ohira at Craft...
Congratulations to our winner Laura Cohen and our finalists. Cohen's photo is seen above and first in our photo gallery in the November/December issue of Artillery. The following photographs are the finalists. Please see info below how to enter for our next...
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...
Tarry Nights at LACMA It’s summer, but the traffic is as bad as ever, and the art world continues to percolate. Yours Truly recently came upon an evening concert at LACMA which was jam-packed from the stage at BP Plaza to where the museum conjoins with La Brea...
Congratulations to our winner Diane Cockerill and our finalists. Cockerill's photo is seen above and first in our photo gallery. Her image is also printed in the September/October issue of Artillery. The following photographs are the finalists from the...
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...
Congratulations to our winner LARRY MANTELLO and our finalists. Mantello's photo is seen above and first in our photo gallery. His image is also printed in the July/August issue of Artillery. The following photographs are the finalists from the July/August contest....
Artificial Intelligence Gets Uppity The future is closer than we think. Yours Truly has been binge-watching the series Humans on Amazon Prime, which has a remarkable cast playing “Synths,” or Synthetics, in a future-world where AI androids take over the menial and...
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