by Ann Landi | Mar 18, 2016 | Features
Courting the Dealers To the young or emerging artist, the art world may seem like a forbidding maze, a complicated circuitry of inside contacts and arcane codes almost impossible for the newcomer to crack. How can the artist without affiliations approach a dealer?...
by Ann Landi | Mar 8, 2016 | Vasari21 Radio
Eric FischlAn ’80s “Art Star” on his Life and Times… SoundCloud Facebook Eric Fischl came of age in an exceptionally fertile time in the New York art world. His friends and colleagues in the 1980s downtown scene included Julian Schnabel,...
by Ann Landi | Feb 27, 2016 | Vasari21 Radio
Kathy ButterlyAmazing Feats of Clay on a Diminutive Scale SoundCloud Facebook One of today’s most imaginative artists working in clay, Kathy Butterly makes small sculptures that are engaging, comical, disturbing, and wholly unexpected adventures in this tricky...
by Ann Landi | Feb 25, 2016 | Under the Radar
Andrew John Cecil As Andrew John Cecil was finishing up his M.F.A. at Cranbrook Academy of Art in the early 1980s, at a time when all his friends seemed headed for careers in New York, he made the conscious decision to go west, first to Texas and later New Mexico. It...
by Ann Landi | Feb 22, 2016 | Features
Studio Visits Revisited In the fall of 2013, I published a story in ARTnews called “Show and Tell: The Dos and Don’ts of Studio Visits,” which went the art-world equivalent of viral—that is to say, scores, possibly hundreds, of people shared on Facebook...