by Ann Landi | Apr 2, 2018 | Poetry
By Jean Nordhaus On James Hampton’s The Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations’ Millennium General Assembly Everything begged to be saved: three-legged tables, arthritic chairs. The blind light bulbs and sprung valises longed to be lifted,...
by Ann Landi | Mar 27, 2018 | Features
Having It All in the 19th Century Berthe Morisot’s subjects now seem among the tamest and most ingratiating imaginable: sun-drenched land- and seascapes, women and children casually posed in the garden or cozy domestic interiors, stylish Parisian beauties at their...
by Ann Landi | Mar 27, 2018 | Under the Radar
Patricia Moss-Vreeland launched her career producing that most traditional of genres—still life. After pursuing studies at Washington University in St. Louis, MO, and the Philadelphia College of Art, she ended up in Rome as part of Tyler School of Art’s program...
by Ann Landi | Mar 12, 2018 | Features
Why and How a Catalogue Adds Cachet In an era when vivid high-quality images can be accessed in a nanosecond on almost any available screen, why bother with something as cumbersome as a hard-copy catalogue with glossy images and real pages? Because the tangible can...
by Ann Landi | Mar 12, 2018 | Artist Essays
By Phillis Ideal I still see Big Mama leaning over her garden to pick a zinnia to put in her still life. Her old pink slip hung diagonally, a foot below her hiked-up stained dress, half-covered by her paint smock, which matched her white faux-fur bedroom slippers,...