by Ann Landi | May 24, 2016 | Features
You Don't Have To Say You Love Me: Part One Rejection is never easy, but artists face more of it than most The artist known as Swoon, now in her late thirties, gained a reputation early in her career for evocative and beautifully crafted street art and for wacky...
by Ann Landi | May 23, 2016 | Under the Radar
Anne Lindberg I first encountered Anne Lindberg’s work about seven years ago, when she was in residence at the Omi International Art Center in upstate New York, and then a few months later, while she was hanging a show at her gallery in Manhattan. In her Omi studio,...
by Ann Landi | May 18, 2016 | Vasari21 Radio
Tricia PaikCurating the Contemporary SoundCloud Facebook Tricia Paik has been involved with contemporary art since the mid-1990s, when she wrote her master’s thesis on Maya Lin’s Vietnam Memorial for the prestigious Institute of Fine Arts in New York. She worked...
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...