If a 1993 Chevrolet P30 step van found on Craigslist is not at the top of your gallery rounds list, think again. Gas Gallery, a mobile art space founded by curator Ceci Moss, has set up shop outside Night Gallery, The Pit, and most recently, BBQLA. Ceci found the van...
ON THE COVER
April Bey is our cover artist in our May/June 2018 issue on Identity Art. Bey is interviewed by contributor Anise Stevens on page 36 in our print edition and on our website. Also catch April Bey in our upcoming panel discussion on Identity Art, at Bermudez Projects,...
Report From Mexico City
It’s starting to rain in Mexico City on Friday afternoon, but Rodrigo Feliz is, in fact, happy. That’s because on the second day of Material Art Fair’s fifth edition, it’s already clearly a triumph. Formerly director of Mexico City’s acclaimed Labor Gallery, Feliz has...
ON THE COVER
Gabriela Castillo, Hector, 2013, Cretacolor and charcoal on paper, 11 x 15 inches, courtesy of the artist. In our March/April 2018 issue, on Drawing. Read about Castillo's work and other artists in contributor Betty Ann Brown's article Seeing Reality, on page 34, and...
The Drawing Issue Video
"Drawing is still basically the same it has been since prehistoric times. It brings together man and the world. It lives through magic." -Keith Haring, from Betty Ann Brown's piece. pg 34. The Drawing Issue, March-April 2018, hits newsstands today. Don Bachardy, Eli...
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ON THE COVER
Sean Tejaratchi, from Crap Hound #1/6: Death, Telephones & Scissors, 1994/2012 In this issue's Under The Radar, our regular column by Doug Harvey. Doug writes about Liartown: https://artillerymag.com/undertheradar-19/
Camera Obscura: Duchamp’s Tortured Nude
Who knew that Nude Descending a Staircase landed flat on her back? Who knew, too, that an artist who did so much to bring Cubism to America ended up a purveyor of something between porn and schlock? At least it felt that way at his death in 1968, when others...
Kinesthesia: Latin American Kinetic Art, 1954-1969
Kinetic Art, like so many postwar movements, arose simultaneously in several disparate corners of the world, coalesced in the late 1950s and early ’60s, and derived from prewar tendencies whose revolutionary aesthetics and idealistic spirit seemed appropriate to a...
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Performance Artist Piotr Pavlensky Arrested For Arson Attack On Paris Banque de France
Russian performance artist Pyotr Pavlensky has been transferred to a psychiatric hospital by French authorities after an act of arson against the Bank of France, French media outlet Le Figaro reported Wednesday. The artist was arrested on Monday night in Paris after...
Dance: The Red Shoes
The Red Shoes (1948) is perhaps the most famous dance film of all time. Sumptuously shot in Technicolor and directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger in post World War II England, it was one of those backstage dramas so popular then, when audiences...
Greg Escalante 1955–2017
Greg Escalante was a Southern California art collector and dealer who was a co-founder of Juxtapoz magazine as well as the driving force behind the Copro Gallery at Bergamot Station in Santa Monica. He recently opened his new space, Gregorio Escalante Gallery, in...
Christian Maychack
In Kafka’s “The Cares of a Family Man,” we meet a small, strange creature lurking on the narrator’s stairway and in his foyer. No animal, but a spool affixed to wooden crosspieces and trailing bits of thread, it’s a “broken-down remnant” composed of scraps, an...
ON THE COVER
Ana Serrano, Chalino, 2008, cardboard, 72 x 25 x 14", photo by Julie Klima; See Annabel Osberg's profile on Serrano, as part of our PST: LA/LA special package: https://artillerymag.com/ana-serrano-shifts-latino-neighborhoods/
“King of the Yees”
What is Chinatown, and what does it mean to a younger generation who can’t even speak Chinese? The play “King of the Yees” (through August 6) makes an attempt to address that issue, via the story of a father-daughter relationship at the crossroads. It is also about...
CURRENT EVENTS: documenta 14
Every five years the sedate city of Kassel, Germany, launches an art expo that attempts to capture the zeitgeist of our times, documenta. This 14th edition was an ambitious one, costing over $36 million, with one part opening in Athens, Greece, in April (ending July...
ART/VERSE
Kick the Can by Maw Shein Win That utopian moment when the film begins & the sound spins, awash in honey & blood, saliva & wine. Let’s kick the can! Alive in the eye of projection, variations of pink on aqua. In Icelandic they say “invisible.” In Spanish...