Gifting Georgia
Tis the season, and I thought I'd share a few of my favorite O'Keeffe goodies for your gift list, whether…
Georgia O’Keeffe and her chow dogs
Georgia O'Keeffe's chow dogs had inscrutable, self-assured expressions and heads like a creature that was a cross between a lion and a bear.
Sparks are flying
Last week I visited the “My New Yorks” exhibit at the Art Institute of Chicago. (You can catch it through…
What if Georgia O’Keeffe attended Harvard?
I often wonder what young people think of Georgia O'Keeffe's art. Now more than a century since her breakout solo exhibition in 1923, how are her paintings seen? What fresh contexts are they given? Interpretations? What new life, if any, will Gen Z offer O'Keeffe? Arielle C. Frommer, for one, has transformed the artist into a Harvard undergrad.
Georgia O’Keeffe and the Politics of Seeing
When Jesse’s girlfriend brought him to the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum in season three of “Breaking Bad,” he was confounded why anyone would paint a door over and over again. Kinda psycho, he thought.
O’Keeffe gone digital
It was just a matter of time before Georgia O'Keeffe went immersive. Around the world, artists like Van Gogh, Monet, and Kahlo have already been given the full-on high-tech treatment.
Georgia O’Keeffe: rewarding curiosity
Georgia O’Keeffe never piled on the paint. She worked wet-into-dry, pretty much a single layer of paint requiring serious control to choreograph her textural effects. Within this narrow range that she chose to work, her variations are virtuosic.