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Ellen Harvey

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For nearly 20 years, Ellen Harvey has been creating installations, site-specific projects, and works in many different mediums that gently spoof…

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The Other Art Fair

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A Report from the Front Lines By Adria Arch A few weeks ago, for the first time, I exhibited my work at The Other Art Fair, a marathon exhibition that runs biannually in spring and fall in the creative heart of New York City at Greenpoint's Brooklyn Expo Center....

From the Vasari21 Archives

Should You Have a Contract with Your Dealer?

by Ann Landi | December 7, 2015 | Features | 0 Comments

Given the increasingly litigious nature of all aspects of our society, it comes as a surprise to find that many galleries and artists function happily without complicated contractual agreements. About half the people surveyed…

Millicent Young on Ed Kashi

by Ann Landi | September 24, 2016 | Artists Choose Artists | 3 Comments

Reflections on a Famed Photojournalist's Images of Syria What I see first is beauty---saturated colors, an abstraction of forms in the picture plane, vertiginous compositions that plunge me from the immediacy of where I stand in the gallery into another realm. This is...

Artists and Critics: Part Two

by Ann Landi | December 9, 2015 | Features | 8 Comments

Not to sound like too much of a fogey, but there was a time when the art world abounded with publications devoted to art—Art in America, Studio International, Arts magazine, Artforum, Art News…

Ripe for Rediscovery: Thomas Child

by Ann Landi | September 16, 2016 | Features | 0 Comments

Rare photos from the 1870s give a glimpse into an ancient civilization on the brink of change Her face framed by an ornate tasseled headdress, the bride looks eager and expectant and maybe a little scared. Her groom seems more confident, certainly more relaxed. You...

By the Book

by Ann Landi | May 2, 2016 | Features | 3 Comments

The very first art books I remember reading (or perhaps just looking at with awe and wonder) were part of the series called “Metropolitan Seminars in Art,” written by the critic John Canaday. Each slender gray volume…

Terms of Engagement

by Ann Landi | October 1, 2017 | Features | 3 Comments

Dealers Tell Us What They Look for in Representing Someone New What makes a gallery decide to take on a new artist? To make a long- or short-term commitment? What goes through a dealer’s head when she is looking at (or looking for) art to show, either in solo or group...

Vasari21 Goes to the Movies

by Ann Landi | June 16, 2016 | Features | 0 Comments

Photo credits: bottom of page https://www.artsy.net/artist/ai-weiweiThe new and already widely praised documentary about Eva Hesse, the subject of our podcast this week with director Marcie Begleiter, brought to mind the many films about artists made down through the...

The “Aha!” Moment, Part One

by Ann Landi | July 13, 2016 | Features | 3 Comments

Artists Share Moments of Discovery A few weeks ago, before making the great trans-Taos trek from Cottam Road to Camino del Monte, I asked Vasari21 members if they had ever experienced what I call the “aha!” moment—a sudden realization that a material, a way of...

The Cooks, the Turkey, and the Formidable Formalist Critic

by Ann Landi | December 19, 2016 | Features | 1 Comment

A brief memoir of catering, art-history classes, and friendship For part of my junior year in college I lived off campus with one of my best friends, Kate, a woman thirteen years older than myself, and in many ways a kind of big-sister to me (since I had none). Kate...

Open Studios: Part One

by Ann Landi | June 4, 2017 | Features | 5 Comments

The ins and outs of making your life and work a public affair When I first broached the topic of open studios to several Vasari 21 members, some said, “No way. I don’t want a lot of lookee-loos traipsing through my private spaces.” Or “I’m at the point where I have...

Archived Feature

Terms of Engagement

Oct 1, 2017 | Features | 3 Comments

Dealers Tell Us What They Look for in Representing Someone New What makes a gallery decide to take on a new artist? To make a long- or short-term commitment? What goes through a dealer’s head when she is looking at (or looking for) art to show, either in solo or group...

Archived Feature

Signs of the Times: Part Two

Jan 22, 2018 | Features | 4 Comments

More reactions to the ugly zeitgeist We’ve now had a full year to take stock of the current administration in Washington and, as Melissa Stern points out, “Every day brings a new outrage, a new affront to common decency, an erosion of our democracy.” Some artists see...

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Artist’s Block and How To Beat It

Dec 11, 2017 | Features | 5 Comments

Feeling stymied? In a slump? Disconnected from your work? You’re not alone. We’re all familiar with writer’s block from the many cinematic clichés. The author sits at his typewriter or word processor, smoking and drinking and muttering profanities. The author fills a...

Archived Under the Radar

Brandon Graving

May 28, 2017 | Under the Radar | 4 Comments

As Hurricane Katrina approached New Orleans in late August 2005, Brandon Graving, whose studio was in the uptown Riverbend area, calmly thought to herself, “Well, I’ve lived through hurricanes, so I’ll survive this one.” By that Saturday, though, it was clear that...

Archived Under the Radar

Donald Martiny

Sep 25, 2017 | Under the Radar | 2 Comments

Donald Martiny’s earliest memory of being mesmerized by paint comes from kindergarten, when he lived in Schenectady, NY, and had “a teacher who was really stingy about art supplies,” he recalls. “She would give us only two jars of poster paint, and I remember being...

Archived Podcast

Shannon Wilkinson: Public Relations for Artists

May 28, 2017 | Vasari21 Radio | 2 Comments

Shannon Wilkinson Public Relations for Artists Photo credits: bottom of page Shannon Wilkinson, founder and president of Reputation...