by Ann Landi | May 8, 2016 | Under the Radar
Marc Baseman The world according to Marc Baseman is a strange, crowded, and mysterious place. In his tiny drawings—usually less than three inches on a side—a cast of odd characters and objects competes for our attention: birds and rodents, guys in business suits, a...
by Ann Landi | May 2, 2016 | Features
By the Book Artists Tell Us About Their Favorites The very first art books I remember reading (or perhaps just looking at with awe and wonder) were part of the series called “Metropolitan Seminars in Art,” written by the critic John Canaday. Each slender gray volume...
by Ann Landi | May 1, 2016 | Vasari21 Radio
David Leaser Say it with flowers. SoundCloud Facebook David Leaser’s large-scale, in-your-face blossoms owe as much to botanical illustration and 17th-century Dutch still life as they do to Andy Warhol and to new-found possibilities with digital imaging. Leaser...
by Ann Landi | May 1, 2016 | Under the Radar
Martha Russo A tour of Martha Russo’s retrospective at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary art in Boulder, CO, is somewhat like a visit to admire the creepy-crawlies in a ten-year-old boy’s bedroom. There is a giant, slithery sculpture on the floor that looks a...
by Ann Landi | Apr 24, 2016 | Features
Artists Behaving Badly How to tell if you're really a narcissist A recent report in the Huffington Post alleges that “narcissistic artists were determined to have higher market prices, higher estimates from auction houses, more museum shows, and more recognition from...
