by Ann Landi | Mar 18, 2016 | Editor's Note
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...
by Ann Landi | Feb 27, 2016 | Vasari21 Radio
Kathy ButterlyAmazing Feats of Clay on a Diminutive Scale SoundCloud Facebook One of today’s most imaginative artists working in clay, Kathy Butterly makes small sculptures that are engaging, comical, disturbing, and wholly unexpected adventures in this tricky...
by Ann Landi | Feb 25, 2016 | Under the Radar
Andrew John Cecil As Andrew John Cecil was finishing up his M.F.A. at Cranbrook Academy of Art in the early 1980s, at a time when all his friends seemed headed for careers in New York, he made the conscious decision to go west, first to Texas and later New Mexico. It...
by Ann Landi | Feb 22, 2016 | Features
Studio Visits Revisited In the fall of 2013, I published a story in ARTnews called “Show and Tell: The Dos and Don’ts of Studio Visits,” which went the art-world equivalent of viral—that is to say, scores, possibly hundreds, of people shared on Facebook...
by Ann Landi | Feb 20, 2016 | Features
A.A. for Artists (Not What You Think) In his 2012 novel Back to Blood, Tom Wolfe devotes a chapter to the art-fair feeding frenzy that is Art Basel Miami Beach, introducing a minor presence named Marilyn Carr, who is known to her principal client as “A.A.,” short for...
