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William T. Wiley (1937–2021) Paying tribute to an influential artist
Influential Northern California artist William T. Wiley passed away on April 25 in Greenbrae, CA. His combination of irreverence and spirituality so keenly reflected the spirit of our times, where we don't know quite what to believe, but would all like to believe in...
From the Editor May-June, 2021; Volume 15, issue 5
Dear Reader, Spring is in the air, skies are blue, daffodils are blooming and the art galleries are opening up. Makes you want to paint or write poetry or string along happy clichés! Yes, the world—at least here in Los Angeles—seems to be emerging from a long dark...
Shoptalk LA Museum Update, Digital Art Happenings, In Memory: Simone Gad
Digital Art Happening In April there was a moment when Yours Truly realized we were finally, at long last, emerging from the pandemic that has shut us in for over a year. It was Saturday night, and we were lured downtown by “LUMINEX: Dialogues of Light,” a one-night...
Books: Jona Frank and John Divola SoCal Photographers Cover It All
Jona Frank’s new book, Cherry Hill, came out this spring almost simultaneously, but coincidentally, at the same time as another book, Terminus, by another SoCal photographer, John Divola. The coincidence is as fortunate as it is fortuitous because their subjects and...
Book Review: Gentile Bellini’s Portrait of Sultan Mehmed II By Elizabeth Rodini ABJECT OBJECT
Elizabeth Rodini’s Gentile Bellini’s Portrait of Sultan Mehmed II (2020) landed on my radar through meeting Rodini last year at the American Academy in Rome, where she is the Andrew Heiskell Arts Director. Rodini’s recent object biography investigates a number of...
Poems
I Could Have Written That By John Tottenham Like you, I am tired of my own voice, these incessant I’s and me’s. But what’s the alternative? I don’t have the audacity to employ another he or she or We. Nothing could be worse, psycholinguistically, than that sententious...
COMICS The Ajax Parody Warehouse Presents: Hermitage
CODE ORANGE May-June 2021 Winner & Finalists
Congratulations to our winner Eric Axene and our finalists. Eric's photo is seen above and first in our photo gallery in the May/June online and print edition of Artillery. The following photographs are the finalists. Please see the info below on how to enter for our...
A Listening Eye: The Films of Mike Dibb
As one of Britain’s most prolific documentarians, Mike Dibb has directed dozens of filmic portraits of people and places from the 1960s to the present. Through conversations with artists and public intellectuals (David Hockney, Edward Said, and Salvador Dalí),...
From the Editor March-April, 2021; Volume 15, issue 4
Dear Reader, It’s been a year now since our world started shrinking; lockdowns and quarantining made our worlds smaller. It was a foregone conclusion that the magazine would also start shrinking. One irony though, is that we gained two editorial pages. But this gain...
Shoptalk Art fairs and COVID, Desert X
Art Fairs Aren't Giving Up Delays, delays, and more delays. Last year Art Basel rather optimistically thought it would proceed with its Miami edition in December. That was finally cancelled when they came to their senses. I think there were online viewing rooms and...
Obituaries Liz Young; Helen Rae; Van Arno
An Appreciation: Liz Young (1958–2020) LA artist Liz Young passed away in December. I’ve been going to Los Angeles art openings as far back as the late ’80s—and Liz Young was always there. Then one day I was at the Y where I swim downtown, and there she was again. I...
CODE ORANGE Winner and Finalists for March-April 2021
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 Film Review of HBO documentary
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...
Poems "All the Paper in My Life" by Eve Wood; "Holding Pattern" by John Tottenham
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...
COMICS Flash Matta Conquers the Universe
SHOPTALK SoCal Museum News, Pantone Color of the Year, and more.
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...
