by Ann Landi | Dec 22, 2015 | Did You Know?
The Secret of Venus Seeing Mona Kuhn’s subtly erotic nudes in the slide show that accompanies our podcast with her this week (and especially the photo titled Morgane from 2010) made me think of a book proposal I worked on more than a decade ago. I had...
by Ann Landi | Dec 21, 2015 | Artist Essays
Josef Albers: Beyond Light and Shade By Mitchell Johnson Most of Josef Albers’s paintings are very unusual and far more complex than they initially appear; they are not about Op art, color theory, or Minimalism. They are about paying attention. Just as his famous book...
by Ann Landi | Dec 21, 2015 | Artists Choose Artists
Cheryl Gross and Marta Wapiennik Choose Each Other Artistic collaborations are nothing new in the annals of contemporary art—think of Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller, Gilbert and George, or even Tim Rollins and his “at-risk” students, known as the Kids of...
by Ann Landi | Dec 14, 2015 | Vasari21 Radio
René Barilleaux The art of curating, from Nauman to Warhol to Miró SoundCloud Facebook René Barilleaux has been a curator for more than 35 years, and is now in charge of art after 1945 at the McNay Art Museum in San Antonio, TX. He began his career organizing shows in...
by Ann Landi | Dec 12, 2015 | Editor's Note
What is the Art World? WEEK TWO | ANN LANDI If you read the mainstream press, you might conclude that the art world consists of only a handful of high-rolling names—big collectors, megabucks art dealers, painters and sculptors and performance artists who now mingle...
