A Hunger Artist

By Betsy Kaufman

MAY 2019 | Critics Page

On my first date with an artist who would eventually become my husband, I said, “Look at me, look at me, look at me!” I am also an artist and I wanted him to know, from the beginning, that I not only live for my work, but that I need an audience to view that work. Eventually my husband gave me “A Hunger Artist” by Franz Kafka.

Hands On: Working with Artist-Endowed Foundations and Trusts

By Patterson Sims

DEC 18-JAN 19 | Critics Page

Working with artist-initiated entities charged with stewarding a creative legacy, both artist-endowed foundations (charitable tax-exempt organizations) and artists’ trusts (private, non-exempt entities), has been the core of my professional life since 2009 and a deeply gratifying culmination of nearly fifty years of work in the visual arts.

Artist-Endowed Foundations: Mapping the Field

By Christine J. Vincent

DEC 18-JAN 19 | Critics Page

Artist-endowed foundations (“AEFs”) are increasing in number due to the convergence of three factors—demographic trends in the artist population, the continuing rise in the global art market, and artists’ desires to provide for their creative works and philanthropic interests in the long-term.

California Landscapes: Richard Diebenkorn / Wayne Thiebaud

By Hearne Pardee

MAR 2018 | ArtSeen

In iconic works from the Bay Area Figurative Movement, Richard Diebenkorn and Wayne Thiebaud defined a California vernacular in the early 1960s—Diebenkorn with suburban views of figures at windows and Thiebaud with arrays of desserts.