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PROVENANCE The Watts Riots, Nickerson Gardens, and Black Lives Matter
In 1965, angry, fed-up citizens took over Watts, a historically Black neighborhood in South Los Angeles. Similar to the recent Black Lives Matter (BLM) uprisings, the Watts Riots began after police responded to a minor infraction with violence, arresting two Black men...
All of Them Witches at Jeffrey Deitch
My experience at the opening night of All of Them Witches--snaking through the costumed crowds, the abundance of art from such a wide-reach of featured artists--78!-- was a maddening, sensual delight--because women, because witches. With so much to feast my eyes on,...
SHELTER-IN-PLACE: How Can We Revive Public and Participatory Art During Coronavirus?
Journalist Calvin Trillin once claimed that California had “a profusion of lawn sculpture…as a natural product of a large retired population and a climate that permits outdoor hobbies.” Quirky though California landscaping may be, its public art has always involved...
Profile: Robert Ortbal
Rather than pursuing variations on by now familiar themes, the Sacramento and Emeryville-based Robert Ortbal follows a path that may well twist into an entirely different dimension. Recently you might find the serious and intellectual Ortbal wearing an oversized dog...
SHELTER-IN-PLACE: Brigitte Lacombe Photography from a Distance
During the pandemic, celebrity portrait photographer Brigitte Lacombe has been sheltering in place in Northern California. Accustomed to working on film sets, theater productions, fashion campaigns, and glossy magazine spreads, Lacombe has used the past few months to...
MORE REASONS TO STAY IN YOUR BUNKER
It looks like this may go on for a while. Even when arts venues reopen, capacity is going to face new limits. Photos of theaters in Germany where seats have been removed to accommodate social distancing, in some cases show theaters with 75% of the seats removed. Large...
QUARANTINE Q&A: Solimar Salas of MOLAA
Are you still changing exhibitions as you would if open and are the exhibitions virtual-only now? How’s that going? We continue to have our exhibitions onsite and our new one, HERland, will open on August 22. Our online initiative through the MOLAA en Casa program...
Edwin Vasquez at MOAH
The sky is the source of light in Nature and it governs everything. —John Constable In the sky we had rediscovered the moving principle of any work of art: the light, and the motion of color. —Sonia Delaunay Edwin Vasquez captures the colors of light in the night sky....
SHELTER-IN-PLACE: Folded Fists
The words “origami” and “protest” are rarely used in the same sentence. In recent decades, origami has evolved from simply being a paper craft taught to children in a classroom to help them build their fine motor skills into a sophisticated art form practiced around...
Letter from the Editor
Dear Reader, Black artists have always mattered to Artillery. While we are always interested in representing all races within our pages, we are also aware that we can do more. Everyone can, and the recent protests all over the world are demanding that. As a...
SHELTER-IN-PLACE: “Construction Manual; Part 1”
One of a truly welcome number of outdoor or window art exhibitions opening this month is the mixed-media window-front showing of four artists, curated by Artillery writer Kate Caruso. Located at the Lady White Co. store in Los Feliz, Construction Manual; Part 1...
Quarantine Q&A: Mike Collins of ShockBoxx
Are you still changing exhibitions as you would if open and are the exhibitions virtual-only now? How’s that going? We haven’t slowed our programming at all during quarantine. The opening reception for Sarah Svetlana’s solo show, “Secret Garden,” was on March 7th,...
SHELTER-IN-PLACE: Remarks on Seafoam Green
Editor’s Note: In lieu of our usual reviews and gallery rounds, we will be running a special SHELTER-IN-PLACE series for the duration of social distancing. This series will focus on that which can be enjoyed from home: musings on stream-able films, online art, and...
SHELTER-IN-PLACE: Christo’s Valley Curtain
Editor’s Note: In lieu of our usual reviews and gallery rounds, we will be running a special SHELTER-IN-PLACE series for the duration of social distancing. This series will focus on that which can be enjoyed from home: musings on stream-able films, online art, and...
Turn On with Video Art
If you’ve ever thought about exploring video art, this might be when you have the time for it. But having the time doesn’t mean that you have the access. Since these aren’t ordinary times, Gagosian Gallery is curating a program of canonical video art that is available...
SHELTER-IN-PLACE: Reflections on Collections, Philadelphia Museum of Art
Editor’s Note: In lieu of our usual reviews and gallery rounds, we will be running a special SHELTER-IN-PLACE series for the duration of social distancing. This series will focus on that which can be enjoyed from home: musings on stream-able films, online art, and...
Lari Pittman at Lehmann Maupin NYC Lehmann Maupin
Fast on the heels of Lari Pittman's most comprehensive solo exhibition in decades, which ran until January at the Hammer Museum in the artist’s hometown of Los Angeles, "Found Buried" is his first at New York City gallery Lehmann Maupin. The exhibition features a...
