This coming Sunday, September 11, artist Marnie Weber, known for her video work and musical group The Spirit Girls, debuts her film, The Day of Forevermore. The premiere will be held in downtown Los Angeles at The Theatre at Ace Hotel and hosted by Live Artillery...
Top Ten Unconventional Art Spaces1. KingswellThis skate shop in Los Feliz has had some surprisingly good art shows—most recently by the LA-based illustrator, Bonethrower. 2. The StandardThis downtown hotel is known to host performance and nontraditional art....
Fifty years ago—in May 1966—the Velvet Underground played their legendary West Coast debut at Hollywood nightclub The Trip as part of Andy Warhol’s Exploding Plastic Inevitable. On the first night, the joint was packed with curiosity-seeking hipster celebrities; Cher...
UNDEREXPOSED Dear Babs, I’m a 16-year-old artist currently living in Austin and I was wondering are there any opportunities to showcase my art? I truly love art and drawing but unfortunately have not had much exposure and I want to share my passion and skill. —Alexia...
Thirty-seven years ago Lydia Takeshita and her college students formed what would become the LA Artcore Center, presently located in Japan Town in downtown Los Angeles, and later added the Brewery Annex location in Lincoln Heights. Takeshita is the founder, executive...
Artillery contributor Josh Herman interviews Robert Berman at his eponymous gallery about art and politics. Berman's art focuses on making sure Donald J. Trump doesn't get elected—a worthy cause—and includes other political works by artists such as Robbie Conal, Ed...
I AM A PROBLEM (2016) is a music video by Will Benedict for the Detroit-based noise band Wolf Eyes. An alien discusses issues surrounding assimilation in an extra global context with television talk show host Charlie Rose. I AM A PROBLEM, 2016 Video, color, sound,...
In this modern fairy tale, a daughter struggles to find freedom from her imposing mother, an elderly demented witch, on the mysterious farm of Forevermore Acres, a rundown junk strewn ranch full of aged witches and misfit monsters. The mother's plans to indoctrinate...
NEW YORK—Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman announced today a $4.28 million settlement with international art dealer Gagosian Gallery following an investigation into sales tax collection practices. Gagosian Gallery is a leading dealer of contemporary art, with...
Nicole Eisenman's two New York shows are featured and reviewed by contributor Stephen Maine.
When the Long Beach City College Art Gallery invited Cheri Gaulke to show “Peep Totter Fly” alongside Michael Arata’s “Texas Style Beauty Contest—Miss M,” she initially recoiled. “I wasn’t quite sure where he was coming from,” she remarked in regard to Arata’s...
Painter and filmmaker Julian Schnabel is returning to Arne Glimcher’s Pace after 13 years with the Gagosian Gallery. Pace had repped Schnabel from 1984 to 2003.Schnabel said “I wanted to have a more human relationship with the person . . . representing my work.”...
With a high of only 50 degrees and a slow misting rain, this year’s Frieze New York art fair on Randall's Island could have been renamed Freeze, but that didn’t seem to stop the throngs of attendees on preview day. For this melting pot of a fair, half the galleries in...
“Ditch the jacket. It’s always hot in there.”I disregard the warning. Hollywood is hushed, cool, with the usual spattering of sleaze and stale piss.A doorman swings open the glass doors to the baking hot Benefit Art Auction at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions....
1 Unknown, Bust of Kakaley, Isabelle, Salomon Islands (MNHN-HA-872), National Museum of Natural History, Paris 2 Emile-André Leroy, Young Haitian, Museum of the 30s, Boulogne-Billancourt. 3 Unknown, Bust of a Young Man, Arigi Dunka, Born on the White Nile...
From 1973 to 1985, Chris Killip lived among and photographed working-class and underclass communities in the north of England whose livelihoods depended on traditional heavy industry. His subjects include the declining coal mining and shipbuilding cities of Tyneside,...
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