by Ann Landi | Jan 22, 2020 | Features
When I was regularly writing reviews for ARTnews and The Wall Street Journal, two great gigs that petered out for different reasons, I was occasionally conscious of having biases toward work that rang my chimes in a big way and against art that confused me or left me...
by Ann Landi | May 6, 2019 | Features
Throughout the history of art there have been innovations that have entirely revolutionized the way work is made, looked at, and thought about. Painting with oils, the technique invented and perfected by Early Netherlandish artists, meant that a higher degree of...
by Ann Landi | May 5, 2019 | Features
Why Not Consider a Residency in the Tropics? Key West is a town unlike any other in Florida, an island city that marks the southernmost point in the United States. A stone’s throw from Cuba, it’s the end destination of U.S. Route 1, the longest north-south road in the...
by Ann Landi | Apr 28, 2019 | Features
In which your intrepid reporter takes a class in encaustic monotypes with Paula Roland Given the number of Vasari21 members who work in encaustic (see Anna Wagner-Ott’s report from last summer), I thought it might be fun to get a firsthand look at why the medium is so...
by Ann Landi | Apr 26, 2019 | Vasari21 Radio
Francie Bishop Good Shaking Things Up in South Florida SoundCloud Facebook Ever since she acquired her first camera with S&H Green Stamps way back in the 1950s, Francie Bishop Good has been an avid photographer and painter, pursuing subjects that explore the...