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, 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…
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.…
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."
O’Keeffe Museum: new thematic galleries
Are you headed to the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum? Here's the news from its recent newsletter about a change in gallery…