by Ann Landi | May 18, 2016 | Vasari21 Radio
Tricia PaikCurating the Contemporary SoundCloud Facebook Tricia Paik has been involved with contemporary art since the mid-1990s, when she wrote her master’s thesis on Maya Lin’s Vietnam Memorial for the prestigious Institute of Fine Arts in New York. She worked...
by Ann Landi | May 14, 2016 | Under the Radar
Phillis Ideal Phillis Ideal knows how to do a wonderful studio visit and interview.I meant to begin this profile in standard journalese, saying something like: Phillis Ideal is a trim, stylish woman with punkishly cropped blonde hair and a wide appealing smile. Or...
by Ann Landi | May 14, 2016 | Editor's Note
Blather and Bloat Part One of Some Random Thoughts on Writing About Art I have been sleeping with a number of critics lately. Stacked on my bedside table, littered on the bed itself, are books by Roger Shattuck, Arthur Danto, Leo Steinberg, Robert Hughes, and...
by Ann Landi | May 8, 2016 | Features
The Curators Speak Advice on snagging a museum's attention In the world of museum exhibitions and gallery shows, the curator seems like the Wizard of Oz, the behind-the-scenes magician who pulls it all together and leads us Munchkins down a yellow brick road toward...
by Ann Landi | May 8, 2016 | Editor's Note
First Love and Irresistible Impulses Or the man who licked the Vermeer My first boyfriend, in college, always smelled of Ivory soap. It was a clean, innocent scent, like baby powder or shampoo, and therefore perhaps appropriate for young love. For years after we broke...
