by Ann Landi | Jun 1, 2020 | Features
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...
by Ann Landi | May 31, 2020 | Under the Radar
At the start of each week, subscribers to Lisa Blas’s RSS feed called “Monday’s Image” are treated to a visual puzzle, an intriguing exercise in compare and contrast, an introduction to a work by an artist you’ve probably never heard of before (paired with the front...
by Ann Landi | May 18, 2020 | Photography Portfolio
My friend Dave Miller came to visit me in Taos about seven years ago, at the start of the Memorial Day weekend, a gorgeous season here when spring is in full bloom, even as the mountain peaks are still glazed with snow. Every year but this one, because of the...
by Ann Landi | May 17, 2020 | Editor's Note
Drawing from the live, nude model has been the mainstay of artists at least since the Renaissance, and the tradition has been kept alive in academies that still value the kind of eye-hand coordination that can only come from careful study of the complicated apparatus...
by Ann Landi | May 17, 2020 | Features
In newsletters, I’ve touched on the way artists respond to catastrophe—specifically war and widespread disease—from the Middle Ages to the present. Some, like Gerhard Richter and Anselm Kiefer, may take decades for the horror of their times to percolate into their...
