Conversations with Friends

Conversations with Friends

If you could talk to any artist, dead or alive, whom would you choose? What would you ask? I know from hard-won experience that artists can be maddeningly difficult to talk to. While some—Frank Stella and Jim Dine are two who come to mind—are on good terms with the...
Donna Seaman: Saving Women Artists from Oblivion

Donna Seaman: Saving Women Artists from Oblivion

Donna Seaman Saving Women Artists from Oblivion SoundCloud Facebook In Identity Unknown, published just last week by Bloomsbury Press, Donna Seaman examines the lives of seven American women who enjoyed a modicum of fame and fortune in their lifetimes and then fell...
Vasari21 Goes to the Movies: Part Two

Vasari21 Goes to the Movies: Part Two

Vasari21 Goes to the Movies Part 2 Why watch a documentary about an artist? We have biographies and museum and gallery shows and catalogues and other ways of entering the lives and minds of the more memorable figures in the visual arts. Yet a documentary can offer an...