Thank you to everyone who submitted their documentary photographs to the Code Orange column over the past eight years. A special thanks goes out to Tulsa Kinney, editor of Artillery and staff, my assistant, Ceci Arana, the Robert Berman Fine Art gallery and staff for...
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BOOK REVIEW: parasocialite Brittany Menjivar's Literary Debut
Literati yet to meet Brittany Menjivar can now do so through her hardcopy publishing debut, a slender prose/poetry collection titled parasocialite. As a cheeky culture correspondent (a Salvadorian born in the DMV) and founder of Car Crash Collective (a late-night lit...
From the Editor March/April; Volume 18, issue 4
Dear Reader, I admit to being a Luddite when it comes to preferring a paintbrush to the computer. So, when artists gained access to AI-generating tools, I wasn’t that impressed, nor alarmed. There seemed to be a lot of hoopla and fearmongering about the prospect of...
OBITUARIES David Kunzle, Jay Willis and Margit Omar
Art historian and artist, curator and collector, gymnast, actor and activist David Kunzle, died January 1 at 87. Through his teaching at UCLA and his prodigious writings, the pioneer comicologist opened the doors of art history for the once-disdained topics of...
POEMS "What's Available for Happy Hour" and "Cowardly New World"
What's Available for Happy Hour? “Nothing, happy hour is from four till five.” “Really?” “It’s a literal hour.” “So, by extension all other hours are unhappy?” “Not necessarily. There are sad hours, bored hours, angry hours, even ecstatic hours, though some forms of...
COMICS Puppets on Strike!
LOOKING AT TOMORROW David Byrne Takes On the Housing Crisis in the Northwest
One wouldn’t expect the prelude to a screening of David Byrne’s American Utopia to be a conversation—facilitated by the polymath—on affordable housing, but that’s what happened this past November at the Tomorrow Theater in Portland, Oregon. For one hour Byrne, joined...
POEMS "Stealing Life" and "The Lugubrious Game"
Stealing Life Closer and closer to fifty, years turn months, weeks, days, and I have trouble staying asleep. Around two I get up to read in the living room, then lie down, this time on the couch, turning the transistor radio to KGO, distracting myself, returning, life...
COMICS Community Standard
CODE ORANGE January-February 2024 Winner & Finalists
Congratulations to our winner Poul Lange and our finalists, Lange's photo is seen above and first in our photo gallery in the January/February 2024 online edition Artillery. The following photographs are the finalists. Please see the info below on how to enter for our...
FILM: Welcome Space Brothers Los Angeles Theatre
It’s weird how the treasure trove of Outsider Video Art that was Public Access Television has only started to seep into mainstream consciousness as it has disappeared—the amateur programming itself, as well as its very context and infrastructure, rendered infinitely...
From the Editor November/December 2023; Volume 18, issue 2
Dear Reader, This issue is a fave of mine. I’ve always loved crafts, especially as a youngster. I taught myself how to sew and embroider, and I made a hooked-rug wall-hanging in my high school art class. I was by far the youngest member of a quilting bee. I even...
POEMS "free country" and "STILL THE SAME"
free country your voice on the phone in the dream is disinterested I miss you I say It’s a free country a moth falls through the door drunk on light the same one that flies out of my wallet how have I never seen him I think coming home —Evan Laffer STILL THE SAME...
COMICS Ancient Chinese Ceramics
CODE ORANGE November-December 2023 Winner & Finalists
Congratulations to our winner Matthew Hermosillo and our finalists, Hermosillo's photo is seen above and first in our photo gallery in the November/December 2023 online edition Artillery. The following photographs are the finalists. Please see the info below on how to...
CODE ORANGE September-October 2023 Winner & Finalists
Congratulations to our winner Seth Kaufman and our finalists, Kaufman's photo is seen above and first in our photo gallery in the September/October2023 online edition Artillery. The following photographs are the finalists. Please see the info below on how to enter for...
From the Editor September/October 2023; Volume 18, issue 1
Dear Reader, Seventeen years—that’s a long time. Most relationships don’t last that long. That number has now outlived all my other jobs; I’m referring to my relationship with Artillery. I started this magazine with my late husband in 2006, who warned me: Once you...
POEMS "Cowsong" and "Yellow Touchings"
Cowsong Guide me into the depths, where the lack of oxygen intercepts the thing no human accepts. Yet here I am, alive: a joke the wind might contrive. Underneath the beat of your blood, feet in the stars, face in the mud. I can hear your brains beat and your heart...