Homage to O’Keeffe
I have been meaning to share this video for a while... It's by a young photographer, Petra Collins, created to…
Happy Birthday, Georgia!
One of my favorite photographs of O'Keeffe, so majestic and rooted, like a tree. (She claimed to prefer trees to…
Georgia O’Keeffe, like a cat
As a journalist and historian, I bring a perhaps too-healthy skepticism to documentaries and memoirs about O'Keeffe. They suffer, most…
Before it was “O’Keeffe Country”
As a historian, I am always on the lookout for contemporary documentation, in order to understand what/how things meant in…
Making modernism
Three women, two continents. Artists who dwell in modernism -- abandoning sentiment for the acute eye. That eye turns toward…
O’Keeffe: seeing the world from uncanny angles
“O’Keeffe, Preston, Cossington Smith: Making Modernism.” The Art Gallery of New South Wales. Through October 2, 2017. The exhibit includes…
But is it art?
After a break, I went back to reading My Faraway One. In my June 20 post about the first two…
O’Keeffe: against interpretation
Georgia O'Keeffe may be the most egregiously over-interpreted artist of all time. The interpretations, and the narratives, have gotten so…