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DECODER: Immune from Criticism - Immune from Criticism

I spend a lot of time finding ways to make paintings that (I always hope miraculously) look like they aren’t paintings. And then I get...The post DECODER: Immune from Criticism appeared first on...

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DECODER: The Bouncers Club - Putting Critics in their Place

Talk about art critics in public enough and they’ll respond—they are, as a people, very fond of electronic communication. And, unlike the other online-overrepresented—unlike xbox...The post DECODER:...

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Decoder: The Money Pit - Where art goes to die

The influence of money on art, you may have heard, is pernicious—or toxic, or corrupting or it is another word that means “bad.” Especially these...The post Decoder: The Money Pit appeared first on...

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DECODER: Shades of Fame - Get It While You Can

Art fame is a weird fame: I know artists whose work has been seen by millions who can’t pay the rent. I know artists with...The post DECODER: Shades of Fame appeared first on Artillery Magazine.

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DECODER: A Guide - A Guide To Artists Who Don’t Make Their Own Art

① Non-Dickheadsa) If 90 people are credited with making this art it’s okay because it looks like it might’ve actually taken 90 people to make...The post DECODER: A Guide appeared first on Artillery...

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DECODER - A Life in Art, LA Style

“I am for an art that embroils itself with the everyday crap and still comes out on top”—Claes OldenburgNearly everyone who has ever written about...The post DECODER appeared first on Artillery Magazine.

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DECODER - Q & A with Anuradha Vikram

Anuradha Vikram is a transcultural critic, curator and educator who’s worked with a variety of contemporary artists from around the world and I’m not. So...The post DECODER appeared first on Artillery...

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DECODER - Movers and Shakers

In the middle of this issue where we talk all about the movers and the shakers, I think I should drop in a note saying...The post DECODER appeared first on Artillery Magazine.

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DECODER - The Eternal Space

The main point of a show in a nonprofit space isn’t profit—it’s you get to have an art party. There’s nowhere to sit and sometimes...The post DECODER appeared first on Artillery Magazine.

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Yale Pit Crit

At the Yale School of Painting and Printmaking there is a pit. They called it a pit. There were discussions in the pit and they...The post Yale Pit Crit appeared first on Artillery Magazine.

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DECODER - Fitting Art into Your Day

Art does not want us to look at art the way we are asked to look at art. Coming in, worried about making it in...The post DECODER appeared first on Artillery Magazine.

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DECODER - Vita Breva

In “Her Story” you watch a handful of video clips of a staged interrogation. You then have the option to type in searches for key...The post DECODER appeared first on Artillery Magazine.

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DECODER - The Show/Installation/Party/Event/Space-Siege

So I was at this opening—or maybe it was an event. In a project space. Or maybe it was a party. There were paintings. It...The post DECODER appeared first on Artillery Magazine.

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DECODER - Selfie-Conscious

Self-portraits have been around forever and photos have been around longer than anyone now living. But selfies, I am going to argue, are their own...The post DECODER appeared first on Artillery Magazine.

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DECODER - Art & The Postmodern Work Ethic

I was wondering why everyone in LA always dresses and talks like they’re at work and stoned and then I remembered it’s because they probably...The post DECODER appeared first on Artillery Magazine.

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DECODER - A Little Less Snobby

I became a Los Angeles artist about the same time Artillery became a Los Angeles art magazine. This 10-year anniversary issue naturally makes everybody wonder...The post DECODER appeared first on...

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DECODER - Interview with Sarah Russin

Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, located right in the middle of the Walk of Fame, isn’t just a rare example of a nonprofit contemporary art space...The post DECODER appeared first on Artillery...

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DECODER - Art Criticism So Passé

In the line to vote, a woman from Guatemala is very proud to be voting Hillary and a guy from Silver Lake is very proud...The post DECODER appeared first on Artillery Magazine.

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DECODER - Whatever You Were Doing, It Didn’t Work

If you ever said fine art was a political act, you were wrong. Consciousness-raising—as art’s broad project, as an abstraction somehow implied in the diversions... The post DECODER appeared first on...

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DECODER - Please Move Over George W. Bush

The art world is in a genteel panic—reliable work isn’t selling, galleries are moving and closing, Andrea Rosen has said she’ll no longer represent living... The post DECODER appeared first on...

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