by Ann Landi | Jan 9, 2017 | Under the Radar
Alison Berry’s recent paintings resemble maps of unknown and fantastical places, enchanted worlds that incorporate beasts both ancient and modern, floor plans for eccentric structures, buildings that look lifted from Quattrocento paintings, lush trees and plants—along...
by Ann Landi | May 23, 2016 | Artist Essays
Reflecting on Vermeer By Riad Miah “Every work of art causes the receiver to enter into a certain kind of relationship both with him who produced, or is producing, the art, and with all those who, simultaneously, previously, or subsequently, receive the same artistic...
by Ann Landi | Feb 1, 2016 | Did You Know?
The Fate of the Art at the Four Seasons By Ann Landi Over the holidays, I learned from a friend that the venerable Four Seasons Restaurant in the landmark Seagram Building on Park Avenue would be closing this summer. I was a little late to that news, and it is not...
by Ann Landi | Jan 13, 2016 | Under the Radar
Elisabeth Condon “I never wanted to be a flower painter. I wanted to be a tough, cool painter,” says Elisabeth Condon in her fifth-floor studio on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, where she is surrounded by several large canvases that incorporate, yes, flowers—lush...
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,”...
