by Ann Landi | Jul 22, 2016 | Features
More Tales of Accidental Discovery and Enlightenment Legend has it that the great early 20th-century painter Wassily Kandinsky discovered abstraction when he left one of his landscapes positioned upside-down in his studio. He returned the next day and loved the almost...
by Ann Landi | Jul 13, 2016 | Under the Radar
Kim Levin is well known to many as an art critic for the Village Voice, New York’s most politically charged alternative tabloid, a post she held for more than 20 years, until 2006. She’s contributed to many art magazines, lectured widely, and written countless...
by Ann Landi | Jul 13, 2016 | Features
Artists Share Moments of Discovery A few weeks ago, before making the great trans-Taos trek from Cottam Road to Camino del Monte, I asked Vasari21 members if they had ever experienced what I call the “aha!” moment—a sudden realization that a material, a way of...
by Ann Landi | Jul 13, 2016 | Vasari21 Radio
Dan Cameron A Visionary Curator, from New York to New Orleans SoundCloud Facebook “I like work that pushes the envelope,” says Dan Cameron, who has worked as a curator since his student days at Bennington College. In 1982 he was one of the first to organize a...
by Ann Landi | Jun 16, 2016 | Features
Vasari21 Goes to the Movies The new and already widely praised documentary about Eva Hesse, the subject of our podcast this week with director Marcie Begleiter, brought to mind the many films about artists made down through the years and inspired a mini-marathon of...
