by Ann Landi | Oct 10, 2016 | Features
In which a writer and critic goes back to class Please note that this story is reprinted from the ARTnews issue of October, 1995. But 20 years later, the New York Studio School “drawing marathons” still continue along the same lines, under the expert...
by Ann Landi | Oct 10, 2016 | Vasari21 Radio
Simon Dinnerstein: Grounded in the Figure SoundCloud Facebook In both drawings and paintings, Simon Dinnerstein has pursued a robust figurative tradition for nearly 50 years. He talks to us about his efforts to say “something about people in a way that is not...
by Ann Landi | Oct 10, 2016 | Features
The answer these days is far from simple. The late, great, often cantankerous art critic Robert Hughes more than once bemoaned the apparent decline in standards for draftsmanship. “In the 45 years that I’ve been writing criticism there has been a tragic depreciation...
by Ann Landi | Oct 2, 2016 | Vasari21 Radio
Irene Hoffmann Reinventing the Biennial SoundCloud Facebook Irene Hofmann, Phillips Director of Site Santa Fe since 2010, earned her stripes working with some of the great curators of our times, such as Marcia Tucker, founder of the New Museum, and Kathy Halbreich,...
by Ann Landi | Oct 2, 2016 | Features
When painter Leslie Parke was a small child, she would head downstairs early in the morning and open one of her parents’ art books, squatting on the floor and pressing her face into the color reproductions of Fifty Centuries of Art. Her goal was not so much to study...
