by Ann Landi | Feb 20, 2016 | Features
A.A. for Artists (Not What You Think) In his 2012 novel Back to Blood, Tom Wolfe devotes a chapter to the art-fair feeding frenzy that is Art Basel Miami Beach, introducing a minor presence named Marilyn Carr, who is known to her principal client as “A.A.,” short for...
by Ann Landi | Feb 14, 2016 | Vasari21 Radio
Francis NaumannA dealer and scholar talks about his long-standing fascination with Marcel Duchamp SoundCloud Facebook Francis Naumann is an unusual hybrid within the art world. Both a dealer and a renowned scholar of the works of Marcel Duchamp, he began his...
by Ann Landi | Feb 14, 2016 | Did You Know?
Vigée the Victorious The life of the beautiful, clever, and prodigiously gifted Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (1755-1842) is one of those rags-to-riches sagas irresistible to storytellers of any era. She was born in Paris to a minor portraitist and a hairdresser, but...
by Ann Landi | Feb 5, 2016 | Under the Radar
Lorrie Fredette “I used to be a secret reader of the New York Times Tuesday ‘Science’ section,” says Lorrie Fredette. “I don’t always understand what I’m reading, so my way into understanding is to go make something, to give it three-dimensional form.” Since...
by Ann Landi | Feb 5, 2016 | Artist Essays
Not-So-Still Life with Children By Christine Taylor Patten Without my four sons, I would be a different artist. They were born one right after the other—the oldest was four when the fourth was born—simplifying as many complications as were created. I dearly wanted a...
