With the help of Zoom and Facetime, I recently paid a virtual studio visit to Megan Marlatt in Orange, Virginia, where she lives in a former commercial building next to the railroad tracks with her husband, photographer Richard Knox Robinson, an Affenpinscher...
Are you in touch with your collectors and are they still interested in buying art or are they showing hesitation due to the stock market slump? Yes, we have kept in communication with our collectors, and we have been heartened by their continued support and commitment...
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? In accordance with LA City and CA state ordinances, we are currently closed to the public and will remain...
On the weekend before everything locked down in Los Angeles, I was fortunate enough to catch the exhibition "To View a Plastic Flower" at the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery and to hear one of the featured artists, Vietnamese American artist T. Kim-Trang Tran,...
It’s a typical Saturday night, the drinks are flowing and the music is playing - as I lie in the bathtub reading another David Goodis novel, sipping another tequila and soda, with a Brahms piano sonata playing softly in the next room. I’m in my natural element,...
This past March Los Angeles lost a truly wonderful artist, Kate Johnson, after her courageous three-year battle with cancer. She undertook this journey with dignity that I hope I have if I ever need it. I have known Kate since 2000 when she and Michael Masucci brought...
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...
Is your museum still open and operating with certain staff members still coming in to work? We are keeping staff members to a minimum at the museum to enable some ongoing tasks; to continue that requires one person at a time to handle. Still, the staff has their...
This week we’ll discuss streaming options that are either free, or offer free trials. I’ll pass on recommendations that might help you navigate them. If something good gets dropped for a limited time, I’ll try to alert my readers. HBO GO is offering free access to...
Three weeks ago I was visiting LACMA for their landmark exhibition “Where the Truth Lies: The Art of Qiu Ying,” featuring a Ming dynasty painter at the Resnick. Afterwards I came out to look for the plinth where a new Yoshitomo Nara sculpture would be going—the...
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? Our current exhibitions are closed to the public as required under the COVID-19 lockdown but we do...
Walking my dogs has become a new form of meditation as I imagine it has for many people confined to their rooms for what feels like an eternity, but as Virginia Woolf once wrote in her private letters: “I need solitude. I need space. I need air. I need the empty...
Fine artist Donna Isham speaks with Los Angeles art critic Shana Nys Dambrot about her recent hugely successful first solo show. She: unBound, the beauty and power of the unrestrained woman in downtown Los Angeles. The Zoom conversation highlights Isham’s viewpoints...
The planet, some of us might say, is having a moment. Panic, collapse, disruption—with the tables turned on the principal disrupting species by an errant configuration of protein presumably just doing its thing in the carbon cycle; also course-correction, regrouping,...
Q&A with Luis De Jesus & Jay Wingate 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? Yes, both of our current exhibitions are up and open to the...
Dear Reader Well here we are again...same time, same place—boy does that phrase take on a completely new meaning. I've put together five of my Artillery interviews, starting with Catherine Opie, way back in 2006 in our very first issue—that's 13 years Artillery's been...
With the idea that everybody is stuck inside, and possibly taking a financial hit, here are some free resources to make another long month a little more bearable. If you have a device that you can read e-books on, here is a giant list of places where you can...
Looking to do something other than Netflix and Chill? We got you. One of our funniest, most-loved & recognizable writers, Cat Call columnist, Anthony Ausgang, shares his ten favorite books on art. 1. The Recognitions, by William Gaddis 2. The Apes of God, by...
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