Falling in love with Mt. Fuji
Not long ago I returned from a few weeks in Japan. At so many turns on the journey between Tokyo…
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.
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.
Georgia O’Keeffe’s final paintings
In case you missed my zoom talk, it's now available online! It's my first reading from the work-in-progress: Digging for…
You’re invited!
After years of researching and writing, I am giving my first public talk from my book manuscript, "Digging for Stars:…
Georgia O’Keeffe, Photographer
Georgia O’Keeffe spent 30 years with the legendary American photographer Alfred Stieglitz. She worked alongside him, posed for him, and…
O’Keeffe: rapturous possibilities
I had the experience, once, of viewing an O’Keeffe exhibit that made me question what I had ever admired in…