Email Author Kathleen Vanesian

Awards

• 2009 - Arizona Press Club Awards, published November 27, 2008

  "Pop-ah Ooo Mao Mao"

• 2009 - Arizona Press Club Awards, published July 10, 2008

  "And They're Grrreat"

• 2009 - Arizona Press Club Awards, published March 20, 2008

  "Blockbusted"

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2001 Stories by Kathleen Vanesian

• Stilled Life

  published November 8, 2001

  An artist usually has to be stone cold dead before his work is ever shown in the Musée du Louvre in Paris. Photographer Joel-Peter Witkin,... More >>

• Praising Che

  published October 18, 2001

  Nearly 35 years ago, Ernesto "Che" Guevara -- radical Marxist revolutionary, trained medical doctor and severe asthmatic -- was captured and... More >>

• Niche Market

  published October 4, 2001

  Long before the economy took its most recent nosedive, the state of the contemporary art scene in the Valley of the Sun could be labeled as pretty... More >>

• From the Darkroom Ages

  published September 27, 2001

  "Stories and Souvenirs," an exhibition of documentary and portrait photography now lining the walls of ASU's Northlight Gallery, inspires... More >>

• Save the Last Dance

  published August 16, 2001

  Having been born and raised 15 minutes from the Mexican border, it's no surprise that I have a deep and abiding love for Mexican folk arts, crafts... More >>

• Minimal Effort

  published August 9, 2001

  What a difference almost a decade makes in the ever-morphing world of contemporary art. I can really appreciate this fact when I think about the... More >>

• Sultan of Style

  published July 12, 2001

  New York painter Donald Sultan long ago abandoned the tried-and-true tools and materials customarily associated with an artist. Eschewing... More >>

• Captured by Rapture

  published June 28, 2001

  I'm being far from hyperbolic when I say that the most searingly memorable art event in the Valley this summer is Iranian-born Shirin Neshat's... More >>

• Vanity Fare

  published June 7, 2001

  Mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the fairest of them all? Apparently, it's high-profile art collectors Jacques and Natasha Gelman, judging... More >>

• Cy Fi Fan

  published May 10, 2001

  Too much digital or 'Net.art' suffers from an anemia that comes from a steady diet of neo-Conceptualism and raw, uncut theory," sputters Mark... More >>

• A Farewell to Armchairs

  published March 29, 2001

  For years, I've harbored two secret but obsessive desires. The first is to furnish an entire house solely with swap meet treasures in truly... More >>

• Beyond the Norm

  published March 15, 2001

  If you need an antidote for the diabetic coma you may have fallen into after seeing Phoenix Art Museum's syrupy "Norman Rockwell: Pictures for the... More >>

• That '80s Show

  published March 8, 2001

  Considering what's now on display in "Swans and Portraits" -- an exhibition of screen prints and two large paintings by Julian Schnabel at AZ/NY... More >>

• The Magnificent Obsessive

  published February 15, 2001

  To look at her, Phoenix painter Sue Chenoweth -- an indefatigably cheerful 47-year-old married mother of two teenagers -- doesn't strike you as a... More >>