by Ann Landi | Oct 10, 2021 | Features
Talk about “Surrealism” in conversation with artists and art lovers you are most likely to think of works by Dalí, Magritte, Tanguy, Ernst, or possibly Paul Delvaux. Mention “American Surrealism,” and the terrain gets tricky. Didn’t Adolph Gottlieb, Mark Rothko, and...
by Ann Landi | Sep 25, 2017 | Features
Artists report on nocturnal inspirations and frustrations I once described Louise Bourgeois as having “a direct pipeline to her unconscious,” and that still seems a fitting description for an artist who came of age in Paris at a time when the Surrealists were the...
by Ann Landi | Feb 13, 2017 | Features
By Jane Barthes As an artist originally from Europe—and one whose own path did not begin with abstraction—I confess I possessed a rather rudimentary knowledge of geometric abstraction, particularly American hard-edge abstraction. It was at Art Expo in Chicago in 2015...
by Ann Landi | Dec 14, 2015 | Vasari21 Radio
René Barilleaux The art of curating, from Nauman to Warhol to Miró SoundCloud Facebook René Barilleaux has been a curator for more than 35 years, and is now in charge of art after 1945 at the McNay Art Museum in San Antonio, TX. He began his career organizing shows in...
