by Ann Landi | Dec 18, 2017 | Features
Even the most famous artists torch, shred, and otherwise annihilate works that don’t seem up to snuff In 1967, Agnes Martin began seeking out her earlier works with the intention of destroying everything she could find. That was about ten years after she had...
by Ann Landi | Dec 18, 2017 | Poetry
By Leslie Ullman (from Natural Histories) After “L’Acropole,” by Paul Delvaux First he noticed my face, he said. At a distance the bones surfaced, they split the light into pools of no light and my hair, he said, so colorless yet full of breath. He would walk into...
by Ann Landi | Dec 11, 2017 | Features
Feeling stymied? In a slump? Disconnected from your work? You’re not alone. We’re all familiar with writer’s block from the many cinematic clichés. The author sits at his typewriter or word processor, smoking and drinking and muttering profanities. The author fills a...
by Ann Landi | Dec 11, 2017 | Under the Radar
It’s hard to imagine an artist more authentically “Western” than Tracy Linder. She grew up on a family farm not far from where she lives now in Billings, Montana. As a girl, she participated in all aspects of life lived close to the land—harvesting, irrigating, and...
by Ann Landi | Oct 30, 2017 | Features
Since I am the sort of person who damn near weeps when she sees a great Degas pastel (like Waiting, 1882, above), it’s not surprising that drawings are perhaps the medium closest to my heart. I love the spontaneity, the economy of means, and the sense that one is as...
