Category Archives: Artillery Magazine articles

Since the beginning of Art, the female figure has been one of the main subject matters for its beauty, sexuality, and emotive powers, starting with the Venus of Villandorffand continuing with em>Venus de Milo and every other Venus incantation from … Continue reading→

Five Car Stud, 1969-1972 is the best installation on racism I have ever seen. Odd that it should have been done by a white man, but when you know the artist is Kienholst, it makes perfect sense because Kienholst has a … Continue reading→

We all have favorite memories like the playground of our childhood or the playground we dragged our children to. Our desire to hang on to these memories is often both a fierce and futile attempt to escape death, a place … Continue reading→

It wasn’t that Andy was gay. It was that he was SO gay. I met Andy in the early ’60s, a time when most gay artists butched it up with the sloppy clothes and the Jackson-Pollock-macho look – either because … Continue reading→

There is nothing more to be said about Frida Kahlo that hasn’t already been said, except that, thankfully, she wasn’t satisfied with becoming just a modern Symbolist and/or Surrealist painter. She was also Mexican in her dress, her life, and … Continue reading→

Benton’s narrative painting of the boy, the man, and the dog are a family experience we are all familiar with even if we didn’t have it. There is no clash between them and the bucolic explosion of nature around them. … Continue reading→

The way I first heard it was a rumor, a bit of gossip. This is how the story went – The main art critic of the time, Clement Greenberg, was gay, arch, and powerful while Jackson was rebellious, macho and … Continue reading→

European art has created some of the most unique and compelling examples of sex as art the world will ever know. The strange thing about European Christians is that their art can be exceedingly sexy but they aren’t supposed to … Continue reading→

When I go to New York I like to stop at the Frick. I trot past the copious Fragonards and visit my favorite paintings. There are many of them…and there are also many Fragonards…why? One, OK; but many? Obviously this … Continue reading→

When Picasso saw the cave paintings he said there is nothing to invent, no new way to paint, it is already done. It is true, they are amazingly modern yet intensely primitive at the same time. They could be shown … Continue reading→

We all have favorite memories like the playground of our childhood or the playground we dragged our children to. Our desire to hang on to these memories is often both a fierce and futile attempt to escape death, a place … Continue reading→

Science is an arsenal of logic, proofs, and answers that banishes all mystery, Gods, and monsters to the edge of existence where death waits by the river. Science is a saintly endeavor but can an animal eat an answer? No … Continue reading→