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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...
CODE ORANGE: MARCH/APRIL 2019
Congratulations to our winner Elizabeth Paige Smith and our finalists. Smith photo is seen above and first in our photo gallery. Her image is also printed in our March / April issue of Artillery. The following photographs are the finalists from our March / April...
SHOPTALK
Photo LA & LA Art Show Our eyeballs may fall out, there’s so very much to see with this cornucopia of art fairs in SoCal this winter. It started with Photo LA (Jan. 31–Feb. 3) returning after a year-hiatus and leaving the cramped Reef/LA Mart downtown for the...
Film: Lost and Found
There is a myth, subscribed to by all ambitious but unsuccessful artists, that they will be discovered posthumously, and their work revered by future generations. That may be cold comfort, but when it comes to fame, the SoCal artist Robert Williams doubles down with...
COMICS: DEAD OR ALIVE
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...
CODE ORANGE: JAN/FEB 2019
Congratulations to our winner Ave Pildas and our finalists. Pildas photo is seen above and first in our photo gallery. His image is also printed in our January/February issue of Artillery. The following photographs are the finalists from our January/February contest. ...
SHOPTALK
LA ARTS DISTRICT SANS ARTISTS LA, LA, our art scene is changing so rapidly. On a recent visit to the Arts District for a preview at Hauser & Wirth, I was struck by how tidy the neighborhood is looking these days. When that gallery opened two-and-a-half years ago,...
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...
CODE ORANGE: NOV/DEC 2018
Congratulations to our winner Osceola Refetoff and our finalists. Refetoff's photo is seen above and first in our photo gallery. His image is also printed in our November/December issue of Artillery. The following photographs are the finalists from our...
SHOPTALK
AI WEIWEI IN LA We haven’t seen much of Chinese artist Ai Weiwei in these parts since LACMA presented his installation “Circle of Animals/Zodiac Head” in 2012. This fall he returned with a well-orchestrated splash—with three high-profile exhibitions opening in LA, all...
In Remembrance: Artillery Co-Founder
Charles Rappleye died on Saturday, September 15, at his home in Echo Park at the age of 62. He battled with cancer for nearly seven years. Charlie had a rich career as an award-winning investigative journalist and an author of four nonfiction historical biographies....
Field Report
“A new thing, a spring later, a different maker” are the words moving-image artist Nathaniel Dorsky uses to position Colophon (for the Arboretum Cycle), 2018, his newest work which investigates light and objecthood. The film, which premiered at the 2018 Toronto...
COMICS: DEAD OR ALIVE
FILM: “Kusama Infinity”
Who said being an artist was easy? Today Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama is known as the top-selling woman artist in the world, but it’s hard to believe how many difficulties she had to overcome before she got to where she is now. Or perhaps, not so hard to...
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...
CODE ORANGE: SEPT/OCT 2018
Congratulations to our winner Cole Case and our finalists. Cole Case's photo is seen above and first in ourphoto gallery. His image is also printed in our September/October issue of Artillery). The following photographs are the finalists from our September/October...
