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STAYING SANE(ish) WITH DR. TRAINWRECK
PTSD, Trauma, Fires

What is to give light must endure burning. —Victor Frankl I had this plan, I was going to spend each issue clarifying an overused, misunderstood and generally obnoxious term or diagnosis. Remember last time when I went on a tirade about ‘triggering’. I planned to do the same with narcissist, borderline, attachment styles, and so forth. Of course, I may still get there but I had to regroup. The...

An Artist Answers Questions
with Narsiso Martinez

by Artillery Staff

TOP 3 SONGS? Strange Fruit (Abel Meeropol) interpreted either by Billie Holiday or Nina Simone, Strawberry Fields (John Lennon and Paul McCartney) interpreted by La Santa Cecilia. I was attracted by the music video. TOP 3 DEAD ARTISTS? Jean-François Millet (1814-1875), Vincent Van-Gogh (1853-1890), Käte Kollwitz, (1867-1945), David Alfaro Siqueiros (1896-1974). GIVE US AN ART WORLD HORROR STORY?...

Taxi Driver

by Ira Wile

I’ve moved around, a lot. Not kicked around, just trying to find some dirt that was my own, and mebbe some puzzled hands for this jigsaw heart. And in all of that highwaying, i found that, no matter the burg i plopped down in, i could get a job driving a taxi. The organization of them all was pretty much the same – quite loose, and almost exclusively cash. Plus i’m good at talkin, and a very...

POEMS

by Jimmy Komma, John Tottenham

The Sublime and The Beautiful Revisited Ascending even lower into the empyrean of autonomy, believing one’s own lies, the beauty that should only be seen through somebody else’s eyes. A pointless exercise, no purpose does it serve: tracking one’s moves, getting on one’s own nerves. But how can life otherwise be lived without these airless flights: descending ever higher into the abyss of...

LUDOLOGY

by Artillery Staff

I’m located at an arts institution (free to the public on Tuesdays). I’m a painting by someone who is better known as a sculptor. I’m older, but not ancient. I live in the permanent collection. I have color, but it’s severely limited (I’m mostly shades of white) I was painted by someone who was alive during WWI. Both the model and the painter tried to mutually exhaust each other during the...

Eileen’s Top Ten of Frieze Week

by Eileen Havant Townsend

On this special date—the Monday after Frieze Week LA—I would like to extend my best wishes to all, even the haters and losers. We made it through. I did it all this week, or as close to all of it as I could with merely a press pass. Here are my final stats, which I think are not too shabby for someone with nothing to buy or sell: (3) Art fairs (3) Press previews (1) Artist talk (7) Parties (3)...

In Search of a City

by Eileen Townsend

“Los Angeles is 72 suburbs in search of a city.” —Dorothy Parker This is a column about the Los Angeles art world. Or at least it was supposed to be. I successfully pitched this column on Wednesday December 4th, 2024 and my editor assigned me a deadline of Saturday, December 7th. “But I can’t write about the art world in Los Angeles with a two-day turnaround while everyone is at Art Basel,” I...

Postmodern Vaudeville
Amy Gerstler on Dynasty Handbag's Frenzied Satire Titanic Depression at MOCA

by Amy Gerstler

Even though the term ‘performance art’ has become a catch-all phrase, it still feels too narrow to convey the onstage antics of Dynasty Handbag, the performance persona of writer, visual artist and actor Jibz Cameron. When Titanic Depression debuted in New York in 2023, its sensibility was described by the New York Times as “queer vaudevillian.” That’s a more intriguing, and perhaps more...

Alternative Spaces
A Look at Alternative Spaces in Los Angeles

by Photos by SAWA

Chez Coronado Founded by Andy Little and Calli Webb and nestled in an unused portion of a basement under an apartment building, Chez Coronado specializes (so far) in works that, like the space, are small, intimate, personal and eccentric. Their most recent offerings include witty, crafty work from Joachim Castañeda, and a moose-themed show from Molly McDonald. Devout Many tattooists learned to...

Artist Takeover
Emma Webster

by Emma Webster

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Reviews

KELLY AKASHI
at Lisson Gallery

Time is a common theme in Kelly Akashi’s work. Doilies inherited from her grandmother represent the past. The artist’s hands, cast in bronze, serve as timestamps for the present— lines and wrinkles marking specific moments. Cast bronze seed pods represent the...

Ramekon O’Arwisters
at Craft Contemporary

Textile art has not always been one of my favorite mediums, but Ramekon O’Arwisters' exhibit altered my thinking. At a time where being Black and Queer, and any semblance of DEI seems fraught - the artist has come out swinging. The thoughtfully curated show is...

Ed Gomez
at the MXCL BNL LAB

The long-running MexiCali Biennial got a recent boost from Mellon Foundation and is currently making its mark in the eastern LA suburb of Whittier. The space, which also houses an archive, MXCL BNL LAB545, is located in an unpretentious storefront, betraying an...

DUELLING REVIEWS: Doug Aitken
at Regen Projects and the Marciano Art Foundation

PAUL THEK
at Hannah Hoffman

I ring the buzzer three, maybe four times at 725 N. Western. No one answers. While I debate whether to abandon my mission, a man with a ladder leaves a side gate open and I slip in. Wandering through a courtyard, I find Hannah Hoffman tucked in the back. This is the...

ANGELYNE
at Melrose Botanical Garden

As I fought through crosstown traffic, the messages came in fast and furious. Hurry up!... Where are you?!... She’s about to arrive!... You’re gonna miss her corvette pull up! When I finally parked and made it to Melrose Botanical Garden, the crowd was spilling onto...

FAYE DRISCOLL
at REDCAT

I’ve always said that I have a crush on dance—on the medium itself, its libidinousness, its structural uninhibitedness, the insanity of memorizing your body’s movements on command and then repeating them. As a writer, I cling to permanence on the page, but...

PIPPA GARNER
at STARS

The artist died during the run of her exhibition, just a few days before the new year. It is fitting given that Pippa Garner used her body as a sort of extended art project, something she worked on for years—altering it with surgeries, tattoos and piercings. The...

ORDINARY PEOPLE
at MOCA

MOCA’s “Ordinary People” manages to tell a story about photorealism that is eclectic, diverse, condescending and drab. Homage to the People of the Bronx: Double Dutch at Kelly Street - La Freeda, Jevette, Towana, Staice (1981–1982) by John Ahearn and Rigoberto Torres’...

RUBY ZARSKY
at Ceradon

Goddesses once etched into stone tablets and later deified in oil paintings now live another immortal existence: nude or scantily clad, wet and voluptuous, digitally rendered and plastered across Reddit or X, they resemble magical beasts or aliens. Some have had their...

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