by Ann Landi | Feb 14, 2016 | Did You Know?
Vigée the Victorious The life of the beautiful, clever, and prodigiously gifted Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (1755-1842) is one of those rags-to-riches sagas irresistible to storytellers of any era. She was born in Paris to a minor portraitist and a hairdresser, but...
by Ann Landi | Feb 5, 2016 | Under the Radar
Lorrie Fredette “I used to be a secret reader of the New York Times Tuesday ‘Science’ section,” says Lorrie Fredette. “I don’t always understand what I’m reading, so my way into understanding is to go make something, to give it three-dimensional form.” Since...
by Ann Landi | Feb 5, 2016 | Features
Three Great Novels About Art, Artists, and the Art World It used to be that the favored genre for fiction about art and artists was the pseudo-biography, like Irving Stone’s Lust for Life and The Agony and the Ecstasy. Or if you were in search of lighter fare,...
by Ann Landi | Feb 5, 2016 | Vasari21 Radio
Ellen HarveyEllen Harvey’s subversive but humorous installations question what we talk about when we talk about art. SoundCloud Facebook For nearly 20 years, Ellen Harvey has been creating installations, site-specific projects, and works in many different...
by Ann Landi | Feb 1, 2016 | Did You Know?
The Fate of the Art at the Four Seasons By Ann Landi Over the holidays, I learned from a friend that the venerable Four Seasons Restaurant in the landmark Seagram Building on Park Avenue would be closing this summer. I was a little late to that news, and it is not...
