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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...
CODE ORANGE Winner and Finalists for January-February 2021
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...
James Welling’s “Choreograph” Review of the Photographer's Recent Book
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...
Poems "Imagine That" by klipschutz; "The Poet’s Garden" by John Tottenham
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...
COMICS Art-Musement Park
From the Editor November/December 2020; Issue 2, Volume 15
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...
CODE ORANGE Winner and Finalists for Nov/Dec 2020
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...
Shoptalk Made in L.A.; Art Economy; Joyce Alexander Wein Artist Prize winner; and more.
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...
