Week One: Welcome to Vasari21

Week One: Welcome to Vasari21

Welcome to Vasari21 WEEK ONE | ANN LANDI A couple of years ago, I wrote a story called “Show and Tell: The Dos and Don’ts of Studio Visits” for ARTnews, a kind of how-to overview that included such choice anecdotes as a visit to the drive-through the freezer...
M’Liz Keefe

M’Liz Keefe

M’Liz Keefe A painter’s life far from the madding crowd. SoundCloud Facebook M’Liz Keefe pursues the time-honored tradition of land- and seascape painting on Fogo Island, a tiny fishing community off the coast of Labrador and Newfoundland. For most...
Profile: Vince Aletti

Profile: Vince Aletti

Profile: Vince Aletti by Kim Levin   Though short and to the point, the ten or so capsule reviews for art shows in the opening pages of the New Yorker each week are probably among the most widely read in the city, if not the nation. This is where tourists and...
Aesthetic Couture and the Great Art Fraud

Aesthetic Couture and the Great Art Fraud

Aesthetic Couture and the Great Art Fraud Artist Essay by Christopher Benson In Shakespeare’s Hamlet, the character Polonius offers the following life advice to his son Laertes: “This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou...
Artists and Critics: Part One

Artists and Critics: Part One

–––– Artists and Critics: Part One Sometimes the best way to respond to a bad review is to take a long walk BY ANN LANDI About ten days after the September 2015 opening of Will Ryman’s latest show at Paul Kasmin Gallery, ARTnews reporter and critic Andrew...