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...
Both vibrant in color and visceral in texture, Evan Nesbit, now at Roberts Projects in Culver City here works on burlap, a continuation of the artist’s use of materials to pull viewers into the depths of his vivid palette. Nesbit’s abstract works deal in illusion,...
Lucio Fontana, the Argentine-born Italian artist best known for his slashed, punctured canvases and lumpy ceramic sculpture, had another less acknowledged side to his oeuvre- his “spatial environments”. Created in the last 20 years of his life, these ephemeral...
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...
Fragmentary castoffs and debris from the LA River texturize Jennifer West's current show, "Future Forgetting," whose title was inspired by Norman Klein's 1997 book The History of Forgetting: Los Angeles and the Erasure of Memory, a treatise on how Los Angeles...
For Richard Prince, well known for his appropriationist works from the 1980s and 1990s, the discovery of Instagram opened a new window onto old methodologies. It was only after watching his daughter post to Tumbler that he came to understand the possibilities of...
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...
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? We switched to appointment only as a precaution before the shutdown announcement. Now the Bendix Building -...
Since the self-isolation began, I’ve been seeing variations on the joke: “introverts have been preparing for this their whole lives.” One might well surmise that a column about things to watch in your bunker could come in handy about now. Since many of our readers may...
As an exhibition I had intended to see on what should’ve been a busy night, Durden and Ray’s Another Dimension was high on my list. As things turned out, the show itself entered another dimension, in the limbo of closings-before-they-opened, as we practiced social...
In life (1922-1995), Cameron's art was often overshadowed by her colorful bohemian persona as occultist and wife of Jack Parsons. But one need know nothing about her to appreciate her drawings and paintings, each of which exudes an intense bewitching presence. Some of...
Tarrah von Lintel is the director and owner of Von Lintel Gallery in Los Angeles. 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? Unfortunately, the Bendix...
Dear Reader, As we all just try to stay safe and healthy and try to get through this pandemic without losing our lives, our loved ones, our bank accounts, our sanity, the world of art is still out there that I, personally, deal with everyday. How can that possibly be...
Nicolas Party's imaginary world contains no wilderness, only bright graphic artifice based loosely on nature and historical art. In his depopulated landscapes such as Trees (all works 2020), tree trunks and branches are smooth cylinders whose leaves fall like confetti...
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