Congratulations to our winner Melissa Moore and our finalists. Moore'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 the info below on how to enter for our...
Black Art: In the Absence of Light, is a most timely and info-packed HBO documentary, briskly propelled by terrific interviews with artists, curators and educators. It opens by introducing us to a landmark exhibition, “Two Centuries of Black American Art,” that opened...
All the Paper in My Life By Eve Wood We are born into paper— Our lives bookended in signatures, A certificate To prove you exist And another to prove you Do not, each day teeming With permits, credentials For entry and forms to depart, Passports, agendas, Records of...
Dear Reader, I was going to start this letter with a Happy New Year! I should, right? It will be 2021 when this January/February issue comes out. We will have brought in the New Year, albeit with less fanfare than usual—it doesn’t take a soothsayer to predict that...
SoCal’s Museums Museums have been shut down (again), which doesn’t effect the city of Los Angeles too much as museums weren’t reopened except for a very short week or so. Neither LACMA nor the Hammer ever reopened after mid-March shutdowns and, alas, the...
Congratulations to our winner Sarah Plenge and our finalists. Plenge'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 the info below on how to enter for our...
I got to know James Welling over a decade ago when he invited me to teach a graduate seminar in the history of photography at UCLA’s Broad School of the Arts, where he was the director of the photography program. His own photography was a mystery to me then, as it...
Imagine That for YC By klipschutz Rachel Cusk flies first class and drives a hybrid. Waiting at the bus stop I raise my hand. If I change the names is it fiction? What if I keep the names and make up lies? Or is that like saying it’s a poem if it...
Dear Reader, As I write this, the election is little more than a week away. It is possible we still might not know who the next president will be when this November/December issue hits the streets. We will either be celebrating or crying. The already surreal fact that...
Congratulations to our winner Carter Potter and our finalists. Potter's photo is seen above and first in our photo gallery in the November/December online issue of Artillery. The following photographs are the finalists. Please see the info below on how to enter for...
The Art Economy Inquiring minds want to know how galleries are faring during the pandemic. As you know, a number have opened up with limited hours, reservations and timed entry. More than once I have found myself the only person visiting a gallery, which made me feel...
The Mountain If a man should ask to meet me at the summit of a mountain to discuss the great questions of life, I would have to turn him down. Talking Woman A woman with a coarse voice can be very sexy, especially if she only says the most negative things. Table In...
Near the end of his new biography of Andy Warhol, where he is discussing his legacy, Blake Gopnik mentions that there have been at least 500 books about Andy Warhol. This might logically lead one to ask: Why should there be another one? Besides the fact that this one...
Dear Reader, It was unanimously decided that the theme for our September issue would be Democracy. There was no question about it: September is the Fall issue, the grand opening of the art season and more importantly, it’s two months before THE election. We weren’t...
Congratulations to our winner Lane Barden and our finalists. Barden's photo is seen above and first in our photo gallery in the September/October online issue of Artillery. The following photographs are the finalists. Please see the info below on how to enter for our...
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