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...
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...
NEW FAIRS IN TOWN, PART 2 I don’t know about you, but Yours Truly is still recovering from our robust art fair season, when for one weekend in February we had five fairs bubbling up around the city. Seeing wonderful work was bliss, driving through traffic in the rain...
Congratulations to our winner Lisa Adams and our finalists. Adams photo is seen above and first in our photo gallery. Her image is also printed in our May/June issue of Artillery. The following photographs are the finalists from our May/June contest. Please see info...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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