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Miami Art Week Artillery Report: Day 1 Artillery is in Miami as Art Basel Miami Beach returns for its 2021 edition

Miami Art Week Artillery Report: Day 1
Artillery is in Miami as Art Basel Miami Beach returns for its 2021 edition

Art Basel Miami Beach is back for the first in-person edition since pre-pandemic days. As with previous years, the week is full of parties, exhibitions, benefit auctions and satellite fairs across Miami Beach and downtown. This week, I’ll be visiting as many events as...

GALLERY ROUNDS: Rob Thom M+B Gallery

GALLERY ROUNDS: Rob Thom
M+B Gallery

Football is considered the greatest American pastime by many of its fans. It is played in intense heat, rain or snow, with diehard followers who prioritize the game above many aspects of normal life. In his exhibition Fumbly Punts, Rob Thom humorously critiques...

Pick of the Week: Lindsay August-Salazar Lowell Ryan Projects

Pick of the Week: Lindsay August-Salazar
Lowell Ryan Projects

Few grasp the power of language to be visually enthralling while expanding our consciousnesses as well as Lindsay August-Salazar, whose solo show at Lowell Ryan Projects, “There’s No Place Like No Place” brings these questions to the forefront. Employing vibrant color...

Brave New World: Handel’s Alcina The English Concert & soloists, conducted by Harry Bicket — Los Angeles Opera, November 2, 2021

Brave New World: Handel’s Alcina
The English Concert & soloists, conducted by Harry Bicket — Los Angeles Opera, November 2, 2021

“Now I want Spirits to enforce, art to enchant,...” William Shakespeare, The Tempest Scarcely into the second act of Alcina—the third of Handel’s operas based on material from Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso...

OUTSIDE LA: Jennifer Bartlett Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

OUTSIDE LA: Jennifer Bartlett
Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

Various sizes of square panels mostly covered with dots with groups of parallel lines and occasional fields of paint line the gallery walls of Locks Gallery in Jennifer Bartlett's installation "Recitative"—its title derived from a rhythmic free form vocal style of...

THE TRUTH ABOUT MINIMALISM A Conversation with William Minor

THE TRUTH ABOUT MINIMALISM
A Conversation with William Minor

“No one achieves frivolity straight off. It is a privilege and an art; it is the pursuit of the superficial by those who, having discerned the impossibility of any certitude, have conceived a disgust for such things; it is the escape far from one abyss or another...

Remarks on Color: Timid White and Bruised Sand: A Conversation Remarks on Color

Remarks on Color: Timid White and Bruised Sand: A Conversation
Remarks on Color

Considering the world today, it’s no wonder you’ve begun to peel, to pull away from your respective homes, to hide from the tremors, quakes and quick-sands of the living world. We are all guilty of something. We have all fallen under at some time or other, curling in...

GALLERY ROUNDS: Leigh Salgado Launch Gallery

GALLERY ROUNDS: Leigh Salgado
Launch Gallery

“As the World Turns” is an apt title for Leigh Salgado’s fourth solo exhibition at Launch Gallery. Many of the graceful works are circular, globe-like. A lush world of beauty that also evokes ideas of the circular nature of life: our annual passage around the sun, and...

Pick of the Week: Unseen Picasso Norton Simon Museum

Pick of the Week: Unseen Picasso
Norton Simon Museum

My first review for Artillery Magazine – almost two years ago now – was for my favorite museum in southern California, The Norton Simon. I recently went back and reread that article, and I found that my own writing was, to be kind, academic. Dry as a bone, really....

From the Editor November-December, 2021; Volume 16, issue 2

From the Editor
November-December, 2021; Volume 16, issue 2

Dear Reader, I had the unexpected pleasure of spending four hours at Harvard’s Fogg Art Museum with my 93-year-old mother-in-law recently. Not that visiting the Fogg is unusual—we’ve done it for years, practically every summer. But this time we spent four hours...

Bennett Roberts It’s About Time

Bennett Roberts
It’s About Time

Back in 2006, I approached Bennett Roberts at his gallery on Wilshire Boulevard with a bit of chagrin. The LA art dealer had always been nothing but nice, helpful and accommodating to me as a person and as an arts writer. So my heart was heavy when I had to break it...

June Edmonds Freedom in Abstraction

June Edmonds
Freedom in Abstraction

The post-pandemic era can offer rewarding challenges, as I found out when engaging in my first Zoom interview. I spoke with painter and educator June Edmonds on the occasion of her current 40-year retrospective at the Laband Gallery, Loyola Marymount University, and a...

Constance Mallinson Talking Trash: Figuratively and Abstractly

Constance Mallinson
Talking Trash: Figuratively and Abstractly

Constance Mallinson’s career has spanned the many vicissitudes of the art world, from Minimalism to Pattern and Decoration, through to postmodern conceptual strategies. More recently, she has created a form of realistic painting that draws from Modernist Abstraction...

Ilona Szwarc Reclaiming the History of Breasts

Ilona Szwarc
Reclaiming the History of Breasts

Ilona Szwarc is a Polish-American artist based in Los Angeles. Her latest show, “Virgin Soap” at Diane Rosenstein Gallery, introduces sculpture alongside her photography, documenting herself casting a model’s torso in silicone and plaster. Other recent LA exhibitions...

Trulee Hall Femininity in Phantasmagoria

Trulee Hall
Femininity in Phantasmagoria

On a blessedly moderate summer Sunday, I am driving over to Trulee Hall’s studio in the industrial backside of LA to participate in the filming of her newest project, Ladies’ Lair Lake, by getting nude and air-brushed green from head to toe. This project will be the...

Shoptalk: LA Art News New Director at MOCA, Academy Museum reopens, and more.

Shoptalk: LA Art News
New Director at MOCA, Academy Museum reopens, and more.

MOCA Madness Good news, the art world is revving up! We have art fairs taking place In Real Life, galleries setting regular opening hours and museums flinging open their doors. Of course, we’re not completely out of the COVID woods—many venues require proof of vax...

More Fireworks for MOCA Art Brief

More Fireworks for MOCA
Art Brief

One of the most memorable events at MOCA occurred when Chinese-American artist Cai Guo-Qiang exploded gunpowder from an exterior wall of the Geffen Contemporary just after sunset, setting off blinding and spectacular explosions before a huge crowd unprepared for such...

SIGHTS UNSCENE Artist Ewedrt Hilgemann’s Sculpture Implosion Event, Royale Projects, Los Angeles, 2017

SIGHTS UNSCENE
Artist Ewedrt Hilgemann’s Sculpture Implosion Event, Royale Projects, Los Angeles, 2017

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