by Ann Landi | Nov 30, 2015 | Artists Choose Artists
Leslie Parke on Lori Ellison I am drawn to work of modest means that has a monumental impact. The master of this kind of work was Lori Ellison, who died in August 2015 Ellison created her pieces on plain paper or in grade-school notebooks, sometimes leaving evidence...
by Ann Landi | Nov 25, 2015 | Editor's Note
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...
by Ann Landi | Nov 25, 2015 | Vasari21 Radio
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...
by Ann Landi | Nov 22, 2015 | Features
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...
by Ann Landi | Nov 12, 2015 | Artist Essays
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...