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.
Click HERE for EatMyMemoir.com
UNDER THE RADAR
A spotlight for members.
Tom Martinelli
Recent Feature
The Monuments Contest: Part Two
Compared with the duration of empires past—like those of ancient Rome or Great Britain—the U.S. occupies a relatively tiny span of time, a little more 234 years as the great democratic experiment, if we date the founding of the country to 1776. And so our monuments...
Recent Feature
A Visit to “Willa”
In the high desert of northern New Mexico, sculptor and photographer Paul O'Connor takes in his friend Debbie Long's immersive installation. "Trippy" barely begins to describe the experience. By Paul O'Connor Several months have passed since my visit to Debbie...
From the Vasari21 Archives
Archived 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...
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 Feature
Grants and Financial Resources for Artists during Covid19
I spent about three days scouring available sources (Artnet, The Art Newspaper, the Internet) to see what sorts of funds are available for artists impacted by the Covid19 pandemic. The bad news is how little is out there, and many of the significant grants are only...
Archived Under the Radar
Gwen Gunter
Among the many adventurous abstract painters who are members of this site, Gwen Gunter has perhaps the most unusual CV. She has worked in public relations, as a sign painter for grocery stores, and as the graphics director for a wholesale radio company and a Big Eight...
Archived Under the Radar
Mimi Chen Ting
Born in Shanghai and raised mostly in Hong Kong, Mimi Chen Ting grew up at a time when traditions were still so strong that her grandmother hobbled around on tiny bound feet and her mother was the concubine of a prosperous banker (her parents married when she was in...
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.