by Ann Landi | Sep 16, 2016 | Features
Slowing down, filtering out the noise, and allowing the mind to empty out can offer a tremendous boon to the creative process. Meditation has for years enjoyed a reputation for its restorative powers and its abilities to sharpen the senses (as well as provide deep...
by Ann Landi | Sep 8, 2016 | Features
More about relationships between dealers and artists As we pointed out a couple of weeks ago, the connection between an artist and her dealer is often as fraught with difficulties and potential for misunderstandings as even the best of marriages. And as methods and...
by Ann Landi | Sep 8, 2016 | Under the Radar
When August Muth was five or six years old, he would take his drawings, spread them out on the gravel in the driveway of his family’s house in Albuquerque, NM, and sell them to passers-by for three cents each. “I always had a lot of entrepreneurial spirit,” he...
by Ann Landi | Sep 7, 2016 | Vasari21 Radio
Christopher Knight To Live and Write in L.A. SoundCloud Facebook Since 1980, Christopher Knight, a happy transplant from the chilly Northeast, has been covering the art scene in Los Angeles. In the past 27 years, as art critic for the Los Angeles Times, he has earned...
by Ann Landi | Aug 29, 2016 | Features
How an extraordinary French artist saved ma derrière after I lost my passport in Paris It is almost a decade since my last real vacation (I’m not counting press trips—they can be fun but are generally brief and frenetic, and have lately tapered off along with the...