Eat My Memoir
Marcel Proust had his madeleine. I have Swiss Steak, Devils on Horseback, 24-Hour Fruit Salad, and other foods particular to my life and times. Please visit my new website dedicated to an autobiography in recipes. I confess to a schizophrenic disposition—one part of my brain devoted to art, the other to food and family.
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UNDER THE RADAR
A spotlight for members.
Carole Kunstadt
Recent Feature
Ripe for Rediscovery: John Outterbridge
I first encountered a couple of John Outterbridge’s trippy, sexy, irresistible sculptures on a press trip to Los Angeles in 2011 for the first iteration of Pacific Standard Time, the sprawling series of exhibitions devoted to art in southern California. It was love at...
Photography Portfolio
Stephen Robeck: Up Close and Abstract
“Cameras and photography have been in my DNA since I was about 10 years old,” says Stephen Robeck. “The mystery is that I don’t even know why or how it started. I’d go and take pictures with a simple little camera, develop them, and make prints.” After a career spent...
From the Vasari21 Archives
Archived Feature
What Is a Drawing? Part Eight
In this, the eighth round-up of drawings from members of the site, I find myself running out of more to say about this oldest means of making an image. And yet even if I fall short on words, the artists never cease to amaze me with new ways to make a drawing....
Archived Feature
Michelle Cooke: Let There Be Light
In those halcyon days when people could still meet easily in restaurants—possibly late February or early March—I caught up with my friend Michelle Cooke, who divides her time between New York and Taos, NM, in a quiet corner of a local eatery called El Sabroso. What we...
Archived Feature
Artists Respond to the Pandemic Part 2
Here we are, now well into the third month of self-isolation, wearing our masks like good citizens if we go out at all, minding the headlines and the barrage of information, and perhaps generally adjusting to a global catastrophe whose true measure will not be known...
Archived Under the Radar
Jeannie Motherwell
First off, let’s get the famous forebears out of the way. Yes, Jeannie Motherwell is the daughter of that Motherwell, Robert, one of the titans of mid-20th-century American art. And the stepdaughter of Helen Frankenthaler, no less famous in the annals of art history...
Archived Under the Radar
Paul O’Connor
Paul O’Connor first fell in love with photography when he joined the navy at the tender age of 17. “My dad gave me a camera, an Olympus, and I started taking pictures—especially of clouds out at sea," he recalls. Those big billowing skies would prove equally...
Archived Podcast
Alice Robb: Why We Dream
In the summer of 2011, science writer Alice Robb discovered a book called Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming, which promised readers that they could control the plots of their dreams.