by Ann Landi | Jul 23, 2017 | Features
A prescient dealer begins to get her due as an artist Betty Parsons was the sort of art dealer who is invariably dubbed “legendary” when her name appears in the annals of art history. At the Betty Parsons Gallery on West 57th Street, which she opened with a borrowed...
by Ann Landi | Jul 23, 2017 | Under the Radar
By the time she was in high school, Krista Svalbonas knew that photography would figure importantly in her future work as an artist. Born in King of Prussia, PA, and raised mostly in nearby Bethlehem, she recalls taking every art class she could in high school. “I had...
by Ann Landi | Jul 16, 2017 | Features
Adventures in self-portraiture Self-portraiture enjoys a long and illustrious lineage, probably reaching its peak in Western art with Rembrandt, who not only reveled in chronicling his changing fortunes—from ambitious youth to successful dandy to impoverished...
by Ann Landi | Jul 16, 2017 | Features
Installation Artists Continue the Narrative Tradition Once upon a time, storytelling was one of the most ambitious missions of painting. Panel by panel, Giotto told the lives of Christ and St. Francis. Michelangelo presented the sweeping drama of the Old and New...
by Ann Landi | Jul 16, 2017 | Vasari21 Radio
Iris Häussler An Artist’s Fictional Universe SoundCloud Facebook Iris Häussler’s installations are guided by a strong storytelling impulse, which took root when she was a student in Munich and became interested in portraying people not through paintings or...
