Top 7 New Art Bios for Summer Beach Reading
The season’s page-turners: Lives of the artists, from Michelangelo to Nauman Read More
Tag Archives: Ann Landi
The Artistic Influences that Made Artists Artists
Hank Willis Thomas, Pat Steir, Deborah Kass, and others reflect on their early encounters with art and the childhood experiences that shape their work Read More
When Is an Artwork Finished?
For some artists, a work is done when it leaves the studio. Others keep tinkering in the galleries. One waits for the piece to “cry uncle” Read More
Charline von Heyl: Unexpected Collisions
Charline von Heyl’s paintings revel in encounters between the geometric and the organic, the decorative and the figurative
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Title Fights: How Museums Name Their Shows
Generating a title for a museum show involves curators, directors, publicists, and more. It can be grueling, it can be fun, and it sometimes takes years to find the right one Read More
Overshadowed by Diebenkorn: Rose Mandel Is Back
Rose Mandel finally gets credit in San Francisco (and in ARTnews) for her achievements in portraiture and beyond Read More
Don’t Think About Picasso: The Wisdom of Agnes Martin
A new book celebrates a four-decade friendship between Agnes Martin and Pace Gallery’s Arne Glimcher Read More
Split Decisions: When Critics Change Their Minds
What makes art critics revise their opinions? Some mind-changing critics explain Read More
‘You Had to Have a Veronese’
A survey at the Ringling chronicles the career of the Renaissance painter American collectors coveted Read More
Nari Ward: Poetic Justice
With haunting juxtapositions of objects at once fragile and grandiose, the Jamaica-born artist comments on liberty, democracy, and his own story as an immigrant Read More
O’K Corrals
A new book chronicles the transformation of two New Mexico properties into distinctly O’Keeffian studios and residences Read More
Auto-Destructive Tendencies
Whether by burning, cutting, shredding, or simply leaving them at the curb, artists have various reasons for disposing of their own works Read More
