by Ann Landi | Feb 20, 2017 | Vasari21 Radio
Donna Seaman Saving Women Artists from Oblivion SoundCloud Facebook In Identity Unknown, published just last week by Bloomsbury Press, Donna Seaman examines the lives of seven American women who enjoyed a modicum of fame and fortune in their lifetimes and then fell...
by Ann Landi | Jan 16, 2017 | Vasari21 Radio
Karen Wilkin Critical Thinking SoundCloud Facebook Karen Wilkin has had a long and varied career since growing up in New York City in the 1950s and ‘60s. “Artists made me an art critic,” as she tells us in describing her early adventures as a curator in...
by Ann Landi | Dec 24, 2016 | Vasari21 Radio
Anne Umland on Francis Picabia at the Museum of Modern Art: “Extreme Freedom” SoundCloud Facebook The elusive, prolific, and provocative Francis Picabia has been almost lost in the shuffle of art history. A lifelong friend of Marcel Duchamp, Picabia started his career...
by Ann Landi | Oct 10, 2016 | Vasari21 Radio
Simon Dinnerstein: Grounded in the Figure SoundCloud Facebook In both drawings and paintings, Simon Dinnerstein has pursued a robust figurative tradition for nearly 50 years. He talks to us about his efforts to say “something about people in a way that is not...
by Ann Landi | Oct 2, 2016 | Vasari21 Radio
Irene Hoffmann Reinventing the Biennial SoundCloud Facebook Irene Hofmann, Phillips Director of Site Santa Fe since 2010, earned her stripes working with some of the great curators of our times, such as Marcia Tucker, founder of the New Museum, and Kathy Halbreich,...
by Ann Landi | Sep 7, 2016 | Vasari21 Radio
Christopher Knight To Live and Write in L.A. SoundCloud Facebook Since 1980, Christopher Knight, a happy transplant from the chilly Northeast, has been covering the art scene in Los Angeles. In the past 27 years, as art critic for the Los Angeles Times, he has earned...