Sparks are flying
Last week I visited the “My New Yorks” exhibit at the Art Institute of Chicago. (You can catch it through…
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.
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…
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…