by Ann Landi | Dec 22, 2015 | Editor's Note
Behold, I bring you good tidings...week after week. WEEK THREE | ANN LANDI As some of you may have noticed, it looks like I have a bit of a regional bias in my choices for “Under the Radar” on the site. All three subjects in these first few weeks hail from Santa Fe,...
by Ann Landi | Dec 22, 2015 | Features
Artists & Critics: Part Three The Critics Speak When I first started working on staff at ARTnews, a little more than 20 years ago, I was on the brink of a divorce after several years of freelancing and corporate wifedom (at which I was not very good). The magazine...
by Ann Landi | Dec 22, 2015 | Did You Know?
The Secret of Venus Seeing Mona Kuhn’s subtly erotic nudes in the slide show that accompanies our podcast with her this week (and especially the photo titled Morgane from 2010) made me think of a book proposal I worked on more than a decade ago. I had...
by Ann Landi | Dec 21, 2015 | Artist Essays
Josef Albers: Beyond Light and Shade By Mitchell Johnson Most of Josef Albers’s paintings are very unusual and far more complex than they initially appear; they are not about Op art, color theory, or Minimalism. They are about paying attention. Just as his famous book...
by Ann Landi | Dec 21, 2015 | Features
Scams and Shams in the Art World: Part One There's a Con in Every Corner Several years ago, I heard about a woman, a self-styled art adviser, who would invite artists to a plush hotel room and for a fee of $500 lend an hour of her time to look over portfolios and then...
