by Ann Landi | Mar 31, 2019 | Features
For nearly two weeks now I’ve been staring on and off at a photo of comedian Amy Schumer on the front page of the New York Times Sunday “Arts & Leisure” section. She is hugely, triumphantly pregnant, cradling her baby bump in one meaty hand. Her wavy hair streams...
by Ann Landi | Mar 17, 2019 | Features
Deep in the heart of Bushwick, Michael David’s residencies offer an intense experience that may take your art to new levels. “A cross between Black Mountain and Project Runway” is the way Michael David sums up the residencies he’s been sponsoring about four...
by Ann Landi | Mar 4, 2019 | Features
In the third iteration of this series, I noted that the possibilities for drawing have expanded hugely in the last century or so. Picasso made drawings with a small electric light in a darkened room. Calder’s Circus can be seen as an assemblage of three-dimensional...
by Ann Landi | Feb 24, 2019 | Features
Ask not what your art can do for you, but what your art can do for your country Among the many forward-minded initiatives launched by the all-too-brief administration of President John F. Kennedy, the Art in Embassies program is one that has...
by Ann Landi | Feb 10, 2019 | Features
The very model of a modern-day generous, informative, and informed community More than two decades ago, when Barbara Ellmann was a young mother in the Tribeca neighborhood in New York, she began to experience those feelings of isolation that can afflict stay-at-home...
by Ann Landi | Feb 4, 2019 | Features
Earlier in the week, I tried to imagine what kind of responses I would have gotten had I posed that question to one of the great masters of the Renaissance. “Signora,” I can hear Maestro Buonarrotti explaining, con pazienza, “a drawing can be many things. A quick...
