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 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...
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,...
