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Eric Fischl

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Eric Fischl came of age in an exceptionally fertile time in the New York art world. His friends and colleagues in the 1980s downtown scene included Julian Schnabel, David Salle, Cindy Sherman, Barbara Kruger, and others who…

The Death of the Gallery? Part One

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Hey, not so fast! But first the bad news…. In the last year or so, there have been several alarming reports about the demise of the mid-level, or mid-tier, gallery—those stalwart spaces that show new art and support artists who may never achieve superstar status but...

Vasari21 Goes to the Movies: Part Two

by Ann Landi | August 3, 2016 | Features | 0 Comments

Photo credits: bottom of page Why watch a documentary about an artist? We have biographies and museum and gallery shows and catalogues and other ways of entering the lives and minds of the more memorable figures in the visual arts. Yet a documentary can offer an...

Annell Livingston on Joanne Mattera

by Ann Landi | December 11, 2015 | Artists Choose Artists | 3 Comments

Joanne’s work is about color first, “color beyond color,” color that resonates somewhere deep within me, somewhere beyond the eye. For me, it is to see color from the heart…

Making Book

by Ann Landi | March 12, 2018 | Features | 5 Comments

Why and How a Catalogue Adds Cachet In an era when vivid high-quality images can be accessed in a nanosecond on almost any available screen, why bother with something as cumbersome as a hard-copy catalogue with glossy images and real pages? Because the tangible can...

Patti Smith Meets Picasso

by Ann Landi | October 27, 2015 | Did You Know? | 6 Comments

“[When I was about twelve], my father took us on a rare excursion to the Museum of Art in Philadelphia. My parents worked very hard, and taking four children on a bus to…

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...

Such Stuff as Dreams Are Made On

by Ann Landi | September 25, 2017 | Features | 1 Comment

Artists report on nocturnal inspirations and frustrations I once described Louise Bourgeois as having “a direct pipeline to her unconscious,” and that still seems a fitting description for an artist who came of age in Paris at a time when the Surrealists were the...

Simon Dinnerstein: Grounded in the Figure

by Dave Travis | October 10, 2016 | Uncategorized, Vasari21 Radio | 2 Comments

Simon Dinnerstein: Grounded in the Figure Photo credits: bottom of page In both drawings and paintings, Simon Dinnerstein has...

Into the Woods with Dale Chihuly

by Ann Landi | September 3, 2017 | Features | 0 Comments

By Susan Erlandson Washburn I arrived at Crystal Bridges in Bentonville, Arkansas—Walmart heiress Alice Walton’s inspired gift to flyover country—too late to see the Dale Chihuly exhibition in the gallery itself but in time to visit the “In the Forest” portion...

The Price Is Right

by Ann Landi | February 13, 2017 | Features | 5 Comments

How Dealers Decide What Your Artwork Should Cost As you might expect in a business that is guided by ineffable factors like talent, taste, trends, and individual potential for growth, galleries don’t have any one set system for determining what to charge for a work of...

Another Opening, Another Show

by Ann Landi | April 14, 2016 | Features, Uncategorized | 6 Comments

The opening, duration, and end of a gallery or museum show can be cause for anxiety, depression, obsession, elation, relief, and any number of other emotional reactions that occur when you…

Archived Feature

The Business of Art Business Coaching, Part One

Oct 23, 2017 | Features | 4 Comments

When you need more than a little help from your friends, seek out a coach I’m not sure when or why I started thinking about the business of art coaching, though I was a guest for one of Paul Klein’s webinars more than a year ago. After I mastered Instagram this...

So You Want to Be in Pictures?

Mar 5, 2018 | Features | 0 Comments

If you catch a set decorator's eye, it just might happen As readers know, I have developed a peculiar fascination with the art featured in shows on the big and small screens—who chooses this work? where do they find the art? what are the guiding factors behind the...

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...

Archived Under the Radar

Raphaëlle Goethals

Jun 19, 2017 | Under the Radar | 6 Comments

As a child in Belgium, Raphaëlle Goethals had the good fortune to be exposed to the great museums of Europe and to the Late Gothic and Northern Renaissance masterworks in her native city of Brussels. “My mom would take us all over the place and whether you like it or...