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UNDER THE RADAR
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Recent Podcast
Michelle Cooke: “Art helps people heal.”
Like many artists, Michelle Cooke has spent a large part of her career employed as a teacher both part and full time. But for the last several years, as director of the visual arts program for…
Recent Feature
What Is a Drawing? Part Seven
One evening in the fall of 1940, at the peak of the German blitzkrieg in Britain, Henry Moore took cover during an air raid in the Belsize Park underground station in London. There he encountered dozens of others who had also scurried belowground to seek shelter from...
From the Vasari21 Archives
Archived Feature
First Encounters
The art that made artists want to be artists In almost every artist’s life there are inevitably one or more works that ignite a spark or at least plant a seed, provoking the notion that art could be a dedicated calling, or at least a subject of serious study....
Archived Feature
Editor’s Note: Amy Schumer Tackles the Tyranny of the Male Gaze
For nearly two weeks now I’ve been staring on and off at a photo of comedian Amy Schumer on the front page of the New York Times Sunday “Arts & Leisure” section. She is hugely, triumphantly pregnant, cradling her baby bump in one meaty hand. Her wavy hair streams...
Archived Feature
Art in Embassies
Ask not what your art can do for you, but what your art can do for your country Among the many forward-minded initiatives launched by the all-too-brief administration of President John F. Kennedy, the Art in Embassies program is one that has...
Archived Under the Radar
Jackie Skrzynski
Like many kids, Jackie Skrzynski (pronounced skrin-ski) was an ardent draftswoman from a very young age. “The idea of moving lines around the page, and then having them turn into something recognizable, was just magic to me,” she says. These days, as her work has...
Archived Under the Radar
Robert Parker
By the time he was twelve, Robert Parker had discovered his twin passions in life. Having read about Frank Lloyd Wright, Mies van der Rohe, and other master builders as a kid, he determined on architecture as a career. But he was drawn to the visual arts as well and...
Archived Podcast
Liliana Bloch: Texas Strong
Gallerist Liliana Bloch has had one of the more unusual routes for an art dealer. In 1999, she fled war-torn El Salvador to forge a new life for herself in Dallas, TX…