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COMPASSIONATE VISIONS The Los Angeles Poverty Department Brings Attention to Skid Row Artists

COMPASSIONATE VISIONS
The Los Angeles Poverty Department Brings Attention to Skid Row Artists

The Skid Row History Museum and Archive (SRHMA), founded by artist John Malpede and directed by Henriëtte Brouwers, is located at 250 South Broadway. It is a unique community art center, as well as a museum and archive for the historical displacement of people in Los...

BEYOND PORTRAITURE Danie Cansino: Seeing LA Through Her Lens

BEYOND PORTRAITURE
Danie Cansino: Seeing LA Through Her Lens

High drama and Baroque chiaroscuro meet tattoo art in Danie Cansino’s elaborate paintings of Los Angeles and Chicanx culture. The artist and educator draws from her own life—family, friends and the neighborhoods she knows best, including East LA and Boyle Heights....

ACCESS TO ABSTRACTION Anne Libby and Anna Rosen Find Freedom in Collaboration

ACCESS TO ABSTRACTION
Anne Libby and Anna Rosen Find Freedom in Collaboration

Communal and collaborative art practices have long appealed to artists as a means of disrupting the patriarchal mythology behind the solitary creative genius, and escaping the art-market matrix of competition and authorship. For the two Los Angeles–based artists...

THE HERE AND NOW OF IT Acaye Kerunen Finds Purpose and Community in a Scarred Landscape

THE HERE AND NOW OF IT
Acaye Kerunen Finds Purpose and Community in a Scarred Landscape

You’re in an otherwise familiar room or space, struck by how unusually airy and refreshed it seems. At the same time, wafting through the interior that constitutes your “mind’s eye,” you’re struck by a sense that, in one way or another, you’ve been here before. The...

THOUGHTFUL SPECTACLES Made in L.A. 2023: ACTS OF LIVING" at The Hammer

THOUGHTFUL SPECTACLES
Made in L.A. 2023: ACTS OF LIVING" at The Hammer

They say how a person does one thing is how they do everything, and the most recent edition of the Hammer Museum’s biennial, “Made in L.A. 2023: Acts of Living” (its sixth), put the axiom into practice. Curators Diana Nawi and Pablo José Ramírez, along with Luce...

ILLUMINATIONS WITHOUT LIMIT "William Blake: Visionary" At the Getty

ILLUMINATIONS WITHOUT LIMIT
"William Blake: Visionary" At the Getty

William Blake embodies a wild paradox in Western cultural history. The only great poet who was also a gifted painter, Blake was a barely educated autodidact whose ideas anticipated Freud, Marx and Einstein. Never published in his lifetime, The Tyger (1795) is now the...

BUNKER VISION Are We Not Men?

BUNKER VISION
Are We Not Men?

Decades before there was a public internet, people were using the post office and self-published magazines to build communities. An interesting example of this was heterosexual men who liked to cross-dress. In the 1950s and ’60s, it was completely illegal for men to...

ART BRIEF The Curious Case of Collector Leon Black

ART BRIEF
The Curious Case of Collector Leon Black

Billionaire founder of private equity firm Apollo Management, Leon Black, was at the top of his game in 2021 both as a Wall Street financier and as one of the world’s leading art collectors, owning works valued at more than $1 billion (he paid $120 million for a...

A Moment for Synthetic Self-Reflection Analia Saban

A Moment for Synthetic Self-Reflection
Analia Saban

As with most endings, there exists introspection. The show is done, the crates have been shipped, the pieces have been sold—or not. Regardless of the success or accolades, regardless of the critic’s opinions, reality is now filled with days of waking up sans deadline....

PEER REVIEW Ishi Glinsky on Kristopher Raos

PEER REVIEW
Ishi Glinsky on Kristopher Raos

A standout artist in 2023’s “Made in L.A.” biennial, Ishi Glinsky often plays with scale in his sculptures, paintings and drawings that reflect the customs of his tribe, the Tohono O’odham Nation. Fusing the past with the present, Glinsky examines pieces from his...

SHOPTALK: LA ART NEWS L.A. Fairs in the New Year, The Artful Lunacy of Luna Luna, Over at the Huntington, Movies and Endings

SHOPTALK: LA ART NEWS
L.A. Fairs in the New Year, The Artful Lunacy of Luna Luna, Over at the Huntington, Movies and Endings

L.A. FAIRS IN THE NEW YEAR The fairs are coming again, and the leader of the pack is, of course, Frieze Los Angeles (Feb. 29–March 3, 2024), returning once more to the Santa Monica Airport. There will be more than 95 exhibitors, with about half from the greater LA...

LOOKING AT TOMORROW David Byrne Takes On the Housing Crisis in the Northwest

LOOKING AT TOMORROW
David Byrne Takes On the Housing Crisis in the Northwest

One wouldn’t expect the prelude to a screening of David Byrne’s American Utopia to be a conversation—facilitated by the polymath—on affordable housing, but that’s what happened this past November at the Tomorrow Theater in Portland, Oregon. For one hour Byrne, joined...

ASK BABS ACCESSIBLE ART?

ASK BABS
ACCESSIBLE ART?

Dear Babs, Dear Babs, How do you feel about an artist selling prints of an original artwork that hasn’t been shown or sold yet? Since it’s a print, the cost will be more affordable to the average buyer. Do you think this lowers the value of owning the actual piece of...

POEMS "Stealing Life" and "The Lugubrious Game"

POEMS
"Stealing Life" and "The Lugubrious Game"

Stealing Life Closer and closer to fifty, years turn months, weeks, days, and I have trouble staying asleep. Around two I get up to read in the living room, then lie down, this time on the couch, turning the transistor radio to KGO, distracting myself, returning, life...

COMICS Community Standard

COMICS
Community Standard

CODE ORANGE January-February 2024 Winner & Finalists

CODE ORANGE
January-February 2024 Winner & Finalists

Congratulations to our winner Poul Lange and our finalists, Lange's photo is seen above and first in our photo gallery in the January/February 2024 online edition Artillery. The following photographs are the finalists. Please see the info below on how to enter for our...

Teddy Sandoval Vincent Price Art Museum

Teddy Sandoval
Vincent Price Art Museum

The Vincent Price Art Museum has mounted an ambitious and idiosyncratic survey of a little-known slice of Los Angeles art history. “Teddy Sandoval and the Butch Gardens School of Art,” curated by Dr. C. Ondine Chavoya and David Evans Frantz, sheds light on the...

Kenwyn Crichlow Diane Rosenstein Gallery

Kenwyn Crichlow
Diane Rosenstein Gallery

With his first solo show in California, the Trinidadian painter Kenwyn Crichlow makes a memorable debut, displaying dynamic, reflective abstractions that engulf the viewer in a spectrum of sensations. Born in Trinidad and Tobago when it was still a British colony,...

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