by Ann Landi | May 14, 2016 | Editor's Note
Blather and Bloat Part One of Some Random Thoughts on Writing About Art I have been sleeping with a number of critics lately. Stacked on my bedside table, littered on the bed itself, are books by Roger Shattuck, Arthur Danto, Leo Steinberg, Robert Hughes, and...
by Ann Landi | May 8, 2016 | Editor's Note
First Love and Irresistible Impulses Or the man who licked the Vermeer My first boyfriend, in college, always smelled of Ivory soap. It was a clean, innocent scent, like baby powder or shampoo, and therefore perhaps appropriate for young love. For years after we broke...
by Ann Landi | Mar 18, 2016 | Editor's Note
The Lives of the Artists Carol Rose Brown is a small, sharp, wren-like woman with piercing dark eyes and a surprisingly deep and resonant voice that retains traces of her native New York. She’s had more than her share of lumps in life—losing her beloved first husband...
by Ann Landi | Jan 14, 2016 | Editor's Note
The States of Art WEEK FIVE | ANN LANDI As many of you are aware from postings on Facebook and elsewhere, I spent nearly two weeks in New York over the holidays, visiting the studios of as many Vasari21 members as I could fit into a crammed schedule. Most will be the...
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 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...
