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Fear of Hip Readings Jack Skelley’s Los Angeles Book Launch of The Complete Fear of Kathy Acker
Los Angeles’ literati gathered at the Poetic Research Bureau in Silver Lake last Wednesday in celebration of Jack Skelley’s book launch of The Complete Fear of Kathy Acker. The awaited book is his first-ever complete edition of excerpts detailing the anarchy of 1980s...
From the Editor July/August 2023; Volume 17, issue 6
Dear Reader, Reading wasn’t a top priority in our family; I don’t think I was ever read to as a child. It wasn’t as if literature was banned in our house, but the walls weren’t exactly lined with bookshelves. The preschool in our tiny town was held at the local...
ENVIRONMENT MAKING Malaya Malandro on Collaboration
Created by Francis Kanai and Malaya Malandro, Everything Is a Self-Portrait is a collection of photographs and poetry produced from years of phone calls and emails between their respective homes in Japan and the US. More than a simple display of two artists’ works,...
POEMS "Apple," "Jackson Pollock," "The Tao," and "Unrealized"
Apple Every day an anxious man appears in my apple and offers me a Magritte. Jackson Pollock Sometimes the Americans form a circle around something awful that has happened. Sometimes it is a painting. The Tao It’s easy to have no path and no plans, but it isn’t very...
CODE ORANGE July-August 2023 Winner & Finalists
Congratulations to our winner Svetlana Katz and our finalists, Svetlana's photo is seen above and first in our photo gallery in the July/August 2023 online edition of Artillery. The following photographs are the finalists. Please see the info below on how to enter for...
COMICS AL Jaffee FOLD-IN!
From the Editor May/June 2023; Volume 17, issue 4
Dear Reader, “Art about art is elitist,” my boyfriend in grad school used to tell me. But if that was the case we wouldn’t have AbEx, Minimalism and maybe even Conceptualism. I got it though: The art world with its various trends and movements could seem precious and...
CODE ORANGE May/June 2023 Winner & Finalists
Congratulations to our winner, Maureen Vastardis, and our finalists, Maureen's photo is seen above and first in our photo gallery in the May/June 2023 online edition of Artillery. The following photographs are the finalists. Please see the info below on how to enter...
POEMS "Reservoir" and "Dead Men Don't Marry"
Reservoir You take the back lane, following the curve of street until it meets the steps to the reservoir. At the top, triumphant, you stop for a cigarette, puffing smoke in the face of legs and lungs. Let them burn this day before your cross- examination. In England,...
COMICS Amelia Clipart for the Testudian Foundation
From the Editor March-April 2023; Volume 17, issue 4
Dear Reader, As long as there are people, there will be portraits. Face it—no pun intended—people are attracted to people. We like to look at ourselves; we like to people-watch; we gaze into our lover’s eyes. Our faces are unique and fascinating: they are who we are....
CODE ORANGE March-April 2023 Winner & Finalists
Congratulations to our winner, Tim Sassoon, and our finalists, Sasson's photo is seen above and first in our photo gallery in the March/April 2023 online edition of Artillery. The following photographs are the finalists. Please see the info below on how to enter for...
BOOK REVIEW: Two Artists’ Books on Dystopia
The Earth is parched, its water impure. The air is poisonous, awash with industrial effluvia and alive with toxic organisms. Our culture has been radically and relentlessly artificialized, while we are regimented, consumerized, alienated and terrorized. Fortunately,...
POEMS "Vincent's Blackberries" and "Belated Start, Premature Conclusion"
Vincent's Blackberries Buying blackberries, you held out on me in Hollywood Erewhon. Tonight is Friday, Christmas lives on and on. Vincent was out in Aries eyes and feeling good, wanting to meet people: other people who buy blackberries I was by myself in mascara and...
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From the Editor January-February, 2023; Volume 17, issue 3
Dear Reader, My social media intern recently sent me a text with an unmistakable degree of urgency. She stated that Chance the Rapper was trying to get in touch with me by Instagram message. “Who?” I replied. My assistant, being of the millennial generation, was not...
Personal Spirituality Betye Saar: Black Doll Blues
The dolls we grew up playing with weren’t just dolls—they were alter egos, surrogate friends and family, and sometimes even symbolic forces of the universe. In this beautifully designed book, Betye Saar: Black Doll Blues, we get a chance to look at Saar’s special...