Georgia O’Keeffe: How a pink rose got in the horse’s eye
I love the stories that arrive right after I share that I'm writing a book on Georgia O'Keeffe. One woman…
O’Keeffe’s Texas watercolors: prototype for postwar modernism?
If the Arts News review of the Texas watercolors exhibited in 1958 made the backhanded compliment that they were Georgia…
Georgia O’Keeffe’s Texas watercolors: “astonishing” and “touching”
Here's an interesting take on Georgia O'Keeffe's Texas watercolors (click here for my review of their current exhibition at the…
Georgia O’Keeffe: Far, Wide Texas
As a critic and cultural historian, I find myself more curious about an artist’s formative moments than her culminating masterworks…
What would Georgia O’Keeffe say about Hillary?
After the emotional overdrive of Hillary’s nomination last week, I’ve been wondering what Georgia O’Keeffe (1887 – 1986) would think…
The last mad throb of red
So much inanity has been written about Georgia O'Keeffe, from her first show to the current retrospective at the Tate…
Look around the O’Keeffe house
If you haven't had the opportunity to visit O'Keeffe Country (or if you have, and want to make a return…
Here we go again….
Note to (male) critics: A work of art can be "corporeal" without being "sexual."