TIME SHARE, the latest programming from performance art organization Performa, is live-streaming just in time for your extended quarantine. The online exhibition explores live performance’s relationship to video-sharing platforms, and imagines, in a few select...
Quarantine Q&A: Tarrah von Lintel
Tarrah von Lintel is the director and owner of Von Lintel Gallery in Los Angeles. Is your current exhibition open to the public by appointment? And does it matter who the “public” is, i.e. only prospective buyers, art critics, art curators? Unfortunately, the Bendix...
Letter from the Editor
Dear Reader, As we all just try to stay safe and healthy and try to get through this pandemic without losing our lives, our loved ones, our bank accounts, our sanity, the world of art is still out there that I, personally, deal with everyday. How can that possibly be...
Vita D’artista
Given his outsize influence on Conceptual art, it’s surprising that Piero Manzoni is just now getting his first official biography. By the time he died in 1963 at the early age of 29 from a heart attack, he had pioneered a genre of painting without color, canned his...
A Poem
The trail you blazed was a well-worn path. Narcissistic heroics, with one eye on posterity. Until the time rolled around to reverse into the antithesis of what you once so convincingly pretended to be: stripped of the trappings of excess, climbing the twelve steps on...
Interview with Isabelle Lutterodt
Isabelle Lutterodt is the director of the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery. O’BRIEN: I know you started your activities as an artist but are now involved in administration and curation as the director of the Barnsdall Municipal Art Gallery. How did your life take...
LA Fair-ed Well
A few weekends ago, Frieze LA (Feb. 14–16) led the LA Art Marathon, and I put on my walking shoes to get to three of them. Frieze itself was again in the white tent set up at Paramount Studios, this time with 75 galleries, plus 16 Projects in the Backlot. Even...
Rain & Creativity in Dublin
Located in the heart of Dublin’s Liberties district, the seven-story Aloft Dublin City hotel stands out in a gritty neighborhood of winding residential streets and old distilleries. The Liberties (the unusual place name results from this having been the only part of...
Top Ten 2019 LA Shows
The LA art world has seen an exceptional year. Even as big-name artists and galleries prevail amid the booming market, previously unrecognized artists are being shown more widely than ever; and sociopolitical issues are driving much of the critical discourse. Of the...
Advertising Sales Executive
LA's preeminent bi-monthly, glossy contemporary art magazine is seeking an advertising sales rep based in a western neighborhood of Los Angeles. This role is commission-based, with flexible hours and working from your home. This is a unique opportunity to learn...
Marketing Internship
Be a part of one the most exciting art institutions in LA and a pillar of art journalism on the West Coast as Artillery's Marketing Intern. Desired start date: January 14, 2020. Requirements: -Must have Photoshop/ and or InDesign/ and or Illustrator experience....
Taking a Piece of Chicago Home in LA
Last Saturday, the hottest gallery opening taking place was at Jeffrey Deitch, Los Angeles for the opening of Judy Chicago: Los Angeles. This exhibition presents a largely unseen body of early work, reminding us that about 50 years ago Chicago spent the good part of a...
LACMA: : Mary Corse: A Survey in Light
Los Angeles-based artist Mary Corse is known as one of the few women involved in the 1960s and 1970s West Coast Light and Space Movement, but in her later incarnations, she should also be known for creating a bridge between the “action painting” of Jackson Pollock and...
Quality Is Subjective
As Artillery’s “Pick of the Week” columnist, I review a notable LA show every Wednesday. Each Pick is a one-paragraph critical snapshot of a show that I think one should see. Writing is only half the job; scouting candidates for the column is my most intricate duty....
REDCAT’s New Original Works Festival 2019
The Roy and Edna Disney / CALARTS Theatre (REDCAT) hosted the 16th Annual New Original Works Festival over the last three consecutive weekends, inviting audience members to step outside our comfort zone to experience three new contemporary dance, theater, music or...
Desert Places
Picking up Highway 62 on the outer edges of Palm Springs takes you up to the high desert in which you drive through endless urban scar tissue a block deep on either side of the road, until you get to Andrea Zittel’s 50-acre spread. Leaving the highway you ascend on a...
Reconnoiter
Giorgio de Finis is currently the artistic director of MACRO (Museum of Contemporary Art Rome) where he has organized the sprawling MACRO Asilo project. He has opened up this institution to a citywide influx of creative energies, involving hundreds of artists,...
ON THE COVER
Randy Polumbo graces the cover of our July/August 2019 issue. Polumbo's art is featured in our hotel art story by contributor Genie Davis on page 42 in our print edition and on our website.