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Artists and Critics: Part Two
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…
Should You Have a Contract with Your Dealer?
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…
Leslie Parke on Lori Ellison
I am drawn to work of modest means that has a monumental impact. The master of this kind of work was Lori Ellison, who died in August 2015…
Week One: Welcome to Vasari21
A couple of years ago, I wrote a story called “Show and Tell: The Dos and Don’ts of Studio Visits” for ARTnews, a kind of how-to overview that included such choice anecdotes as a visit to the drive-through…
Profile: Vince Aletti
Though short and to the point, the ten or so capsule reviews for art shows in the opening pages of the New Yorker each week are probably among the most widely read in the city, if not the nation.
Aesthetic Couture and the Great Art Fraud
In Shakespeare’s Hamlet, the character Polonius offers the following life advice to his son Laertes: “This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow…
Artists and Critics: Part One
Sometimes the best way to respond to a bad review is to take a long walk Photo credits: bottom of page About ten days after the September 2015 opening of Will Ryman’s…
Greta Young
“Is that a penis?” I ask Greta Young during a visit to her temporary studio not far from the Railyard gallery district in Santa Fe. “It could be, it could be,” she says, sphinxlike but smiling…
Patti Smith Meets Picasso
“[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…
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