Stephen Cohen, a long-time Los Angeles gallerist and the founder of one of Southern California’s most enduring art fairs, PhotoLA, died on February 25th, 2021 from complications related to cancer at the age of 72. A charismatic fixture on the LA art beat, Cohen...
We are saddened to announce the death of Roland Reiss, artist and educator, loving husband, father, and grandfather, who passed away on Sunday, December 13, of natural causes in Los Angeles, at his home and studio at The Brewery Artist Lofts. He was 91. Reiss is...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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