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Shannon Wilkinson: Public Relations for Artists
Shannon Wilkinson, founder and president of Reputation Communications in New York, has a long and respected history of working with artists and arts groups on publicizing their projects…
Kathleen Ferguson-Huntington: Move Over, Scheherazade
In the year 2000, Kathleen Ferguson-Huntington took off on the academic adventure of a lifetime. Through Virginia Commonwealth University, she found a position teaching three-dimensional design…
Iris Häussler: An Artist’s Fictional Universe
Iris Häussler’s installations are guided by a strong storytelling impulse, which took root when she was a student in Munich and became interested in portraying people not through paintings or sculptures…
Eric Gibson: The Overexposed Museum and Other Dilemmas in the Art of our Times
In his more than three decades as a critic, Eric Gibson has seen some seismic shifts in the art world—from an “art for art’s sake” culture to one in which art is “bought, sold, traded, and collected…
Jina Brenneman: Agnes Martin—Before the Grid
Until recently, little has been known about the early years of Agnes Martin, who first began making her magical grid paintings when she was well into her forties…
Carol Kino: The Fine Art of Writing about Artists
Carol Kino has been writing about art, artists, and the art world for more than 25 years for publications like The New York Times, The Atlantic Monthly, Art in America, and WSJ Magazine…
Lorna York: Making Waves on the West Coast
Raised in the Midwest, Lorna York moved to Boston in her twenties to pursue a modeling career but soon found herself operating a gallery on tony Newberry Street…
Donna Seaman: Saving Women Artists from Oblivion
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…
Karen Wilkin: Critical Thinking
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…
Anne Umland on Francis Picabia at the Museum of Modern Art: “Extreme Freedom”
The elusive, prolific, and provocative Francis Picabia has been almost lost in the shuffle of art history…
Simon Dinnerstein: Grounded in the Figure
In both drawings and paintings, Simon Dinnerstein has pursued a robust figurative tradition for nearly 50 years. He talks to us about his efforts…
Irene Hofmann: Reinventing the Biennial
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…
Christopher Knight: To Live and Write in L.A.
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…
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