by Ann Landi | Sep 24, 2016 | Artists Choose Artists
Reflections on a Famed Photojournalist’s Images of Syria What I see first is beauty—saturated colors, an abstraction of forms in the picture plane, vertiginous compositions that plunge me from the immediacy of where I stand in the gallery into another...
by Ann Landi | Sep 16, 2016 | Features
Rare photos from the 1870s give a glimpse into an ancient civilization on the brink of change Her face framed by an ornate tasseled headdress, the bride looks eager and expectant and maybe a little scared. Her groom seems more confident, certainly more relaxed. You...
by Ann Landi | May 1, 2016 | Vasari21 Radio
David Leaser Say it with flowers. SoundCloud Facebook David Leaser’s large-scale, in-your-face blossoms owe as much to botanical illustration and 17th-century Dutch still life as they do to Andy Warhol and to new-found possibilities with digital imaging. Leaser...
by Ann Landi | Mar 18, 2016 | Under the Radar
Carol Rose Brown Carol Rose Brown has been through several metamorphoses as an artist. She started showing while still in her twenties and working at an office job in the Brooklyn Museum. One of her first exhibitions, at the adventurous Sidney Janis Gallery in the...
by Ann Landi | Dec 30, 2015 | Vasari21 Radio
Paul O’ConnorThe Fine Art of Photographing Fine Art SoundCloud Facebook When photographer Paul O’Connor moved to Taos, NM, in the late 1980s, he set himself the task of photographing the last of the group known as the Taos Moderns, and then moved on to the...