by Ann Landi | Dec 10, 2018 | Editor's Note
It’s a question people habitually ask in a place like Taos: How did you wind up (or, alternatively, end up) here? The connotations of that inquiry always feel to me somewhat negative, as though you’ve hit rock bottom and are staying at the YWCA in downtown Newark. But...
by Ann Landi | Apr 2, 2018 | Editor's Note
Where are we, what are we doing, where are we going? I can remember when and where I first conceived the idea for Vasari21. I was staying in my friend Barbara Rachko’s apartment over the holidays in December 2015, while she was traveling in South America, and though...
by Ann Landi | Apr 23, 2017 | Editor's Note
Some unsolicited advice from a rank amateur I recently read online an excerpt from The Orange Balloon Dog: Bubbles, Turmoil and Avarice in the Contemporary Art Market, the latest book from economist and art market commentator Don Thompson, which will be available in...
by Ann Landi | Jun 8, 2016 | Editor's Note
On Confronting the New, the Strange, and the Downright Baffling It’s become almost a cliché to say that there is no such thing as an avant-garde anymore, because the term “avant-garde” of necessity implies a notion of beyond the pale, difficult to comprehend, and...
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...
