Blather and Bloat

Blather and Bloat

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...
First Love and Irresistible Impulses

First Love and Irresistible Impulses

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...
The Lives of the Artists

The Lives of the Artists

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...
The States of Art

The States of Art

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...
Behold, I bring you good tidings…week after week.

Behold, I bring you good tidings…week after week.

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,...
What is the art world?

What is the art world?

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...