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CODE ORANGE May-June Winner & Finalist
Congratulations to our winner Grace Mesenbring and our finalists, Grace's photo is seen above and first in our photo gallery in the May/June 2022 online edition of Artillery. The following photographs are the finalists. Please see the info below on how to enter for...
THEATER REVIEW: Ann Pasadena Playhouse
To do a one-woman play is a challenge; to do a one-woman play about a noted public figure and keep the audience enthralled for two hours is a tour de force. That’s what Holland Taylor manages to do in Ann, which just opened at the Pasadena Playhouse (through April...
SHOPTALK: LA Art News Art Fairs, Gallery Movement, and more
Frieze 2022 The art fairs have returned, and with such a burst of optimistic energy! Maybe they’re signaling the lifting of the curse of COVID—or our fervent hope for its end. And maybe artists, during all the imposed quarantines and self-isolations, have devoted...
René Magritte and the First Art Gang Book Review of "Magritte: A Life"
Magritte: A Life By Alex Danchev 439 pages, illustrated Pantheon Books When an artist achieves the kind of iconic status where they are known outside of the Art World, there can often be a tendency to codify their myth into something that might pass the Elevator Pitch...
Poems "Kiefer Lights a Big Cigar" by Klipschutz; "The Poet’s Garden" by John Tottenham
Kiefer Lights a Big Cigar & waves the heavy machinery into place He rearranges the rubble speaking whichever language suits the occasion He & Tony saunter through a tunnel in the South of France “It’s my gesture” is what he says about his art His use of...
COMICS Joseph Wright of Derby
CODE ORANGE March-April 2022 Winner & Finalists
Congratulations to our winner Laurie Gwen Shapiro and our finalists, Laurie Gwen's photo is seen above and first in our photo gallery in the March/April 2022 online edition of Artillery. The following photographs are the finalists. Please see the info below on how to...
CODE ORANGE January-February 2022 Winner & Finalists
Congratulations to our winner Lisa Joy Walton and our finalists. Lisa's photo is seen above and first in our photo gallery in the January/February 2022 online edition of Artillery. The following photographs are the finalists. Please see the info below on how...
Shoptalk: LA Art News Art Fairs, Breakout Artists, and More.
On a Roll LA artist Sandy Rodriguez is having a very good year—her work is currently in a solo show, “Sandy Rodriguez in Isolation” (through April 17), at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art in Fort Worth, TX, plus she’s part of two major exhibitions in the LA...
CODAworx Takes Over the Desert Extreme Public Art
CODAsummit 2021 was marked by an in-person conference in Scottsdale, AZ which coincided with the dramatic light/art/water event titled Canal Convergence. While there was a COVID-friendly digital component for those not in attendance, the turnout was relatively...
Book Review: STREET ART & SOCCER "The Chosen Few: Aesthetics and Ideology in Football Fan Graffiti and Street Art" By Mitja Velikonja
The Chosen Few: Aesthetics and Ideology in Football Fan Graffiti and Street Art By Mitja Velikonja 176 pages DoppelHouse Press Graffiti and street art are often considered synonymous since they affect the urban environment in similar ways. But graffiti is...
Poems "The Mind Wanders" By Daniel Crook; "Courtesy of the Artist" By John Tottenham
The Mind Wanders We pass 6th street at eight o’clock. This is not remarkable but sometimes one can do something countless times and remain enchanted. The colors aren’t the same. Once blue, now purple, then red. No two things are alike an hour later but they...
COMICS A Bunch of Sour Grapes
From the Editor November-December, 2021; Volume 16, issue 2
Dear Reader, I had the unexpected pleasure of spending four hours at Harvard’s Fogg Art Museum with my 93-year-old mother-in-law recently. Not that visiting the Fogg is unusual—we’ve done it for years, practically every summer. But this time we spent four hours...
Shoptalk: LA Art News New Director at MOCA, Academy Museum reopens, and more.
MOCA Madness Good news, the art world is revving up! We have art fairs taking place In Real Life, galleries setting regular opening hours and museums flinging open their doors. Of course, we’re not completely out of the COVID woods—many venues require proof of vax...
Poems "March 2nd, 2021" By Steve Anwyll; "The Great Wall" By John Tottenham
March 2nd, 2021 I step off but don’t move. The bus pulls away in a roar. I remove my mask. The air I breathe feels like bliss. I stand on the muddy sidewalk looking up at the sky. If I were a man of faith now would be the time to start speaking in tongues....
CODE ORANGE November-December 2021 Winner & Finalists
Congratulations to our winner Ceci Arana and our finalists. Ceci's photo is seen above and first in our photo gallery in the November/December online and print edition of Artillery. The following photographs are the finalists. Please see the info below on how...
