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...
by Ann Landi | Dec 21, 2015 | Artists Choose Artists
Cheryl Gross and Marta Wapiennik Choose Each Other Artistic collaborations are nothing new in the annals of contemporary art—think of Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller, Gilbert and George, or even Tim Rollins and his “at-risk” students, known as the Kids of...
by Ann Landi | Dec 17, 2015 | Under the Radar
Jonathan Morse For Jonathan Morse, digital prints are every bit as original as statements as a painting or drawing realized through traditional means. Yet his works, mostly abstractions made in their entirety on the computer, incorporate many of the elements familiar...
by Ann Landi | Dec 14, 2015 | Vasari21 Radio
René Barilleaux The art of curating, from Nauman to Warhol to Miró SoundCloud Facebook René Barilleaux has been a curator for more than 35 years, and is now in charge of art after 1945 at the McNay Art Museum in San Antonio, TX. He began his career organizing shows in...
by Ann Landi | Dec 12, 2015 | Editor's Note
What is the Art World? WEEK TWO | ANN LANDI If you read the mainstream press, you might conclude that the art world consists of only a handful of high-rolling names—big collectors, megabucks art dealers, painters and sculptors and performance artists who now mingle...
