by Ann Landi | Jan 14, 2016 | Editor's Note
The States of Art WEEK FIVE | ANN LANDI As many of you are aware from postings on Facebook and elsewhere, I spent nearly two weeks in New York over the holidays, visiting the studios of as many Vasari21 members as I could fit into a crammed schedule. Most will be the...
by Ann Landi | Jan 13, 2016 | Artists Choose Artists
Linda Vallejo Chooses Charles Gaines “The Brown Dot Project (TBDP),” a series of mine from 2015, has been deeply influenced by the renowned Los Angeles-based artist Charles Gaines, whose works investigate the way rules-based procedures construct order and meaning....
by Ann Landi | Jan 13, 2016 | Did You Know?
Alex Meets Ada Alex Katz first met his wife, Ada, at an opening at the Tangier Gallery in 1958. She immediately became one of his favorite models. “I’d been painting these all-over landscapes, and then I decided to paint details like eyes and noses and mouths,”...
by Ann Landi | Jan 11, 2016 | Vasari21 Radio
Deborah BrownA pioneer painter in Bushwick SoundCloud Facebook After earning an undergraduate degree from Yale, painter Deborah Brown moved to New York to launch her career. Her wildly expressionist works have taken her from depictions of scrap heaps in Brooklyn...
by Ann Landi | Dec 22, 2015 | Features
Artists & Critics: Part Three The Critics Speak When I first started working on staff at ARTnews, a little more than 20 years ago, I was on the brink of a divorce after several years of freelancing and corporate wifedom (at which I was not very good). The magazine...
