Hotel owner tells Hispanic workers to change names Oct 26, 2009
The community includes Taos Pueblo, an American Indian dwelling inhabited for over 1,000 years, and an adobe Catholic church made famous in a Georgia O'Keeffe painting. After he arrived, Whitten met with the employees. (Anchorage Daily News)
Celebrity photographer Irving Penn dies Oct 8, 2009
His celebrity portraits included closely cropped images of Miles Davis, Spencer Tracy, Georgia O'Keeffe and Pablo Picasso, the last peering apprehensively from beneath a wide-brimmed hat. He once said that his formula for capturing meaningful portraits was to photograph his subjects relentlessly, often over a period of several hours, until they were forced to let down their guard. (MSNBC -- Lifestyle)
TV review: O'Keeffe bio starts way too slowly Sep 20, 2009
Georgia O'Keeffe: Her Life Was a Work of Art: Starring Joan Allen, Jeremy Irons, 9 p.m. SaturdaySEP 19, Lifetime cable network, with encore broadcasts ... Lifetime's biopic on Georgia O'Keeffe is a lot like one of that great artist's paintings: quiet and peaceful at first, but explosive if you stick with it ... For almost two-thirds of the way, "Georgia O'Keeffe: Her Life Was a Work of Art" is so placid it almost disappears, despite the fact that Lifetime managed a coup in getting the great Joan... (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Allen Channels O'Keeffe in TV Film Sep 20, 2009
NEW YORK Georgia O'Keeffe stirs recognition in certain predictable ways: her no-nonsense face leathered by the New Mexico sun; her paintings of animal skulls and of flowers that mystically evoke ladies' privates ... A new Lifetime film, "Georgia O'Keeffe," provides a telling glimpse through the framework of her love affair, collaboration and emotional tug-of-war with photographer Alfred Stieglitz ... NEW YORK Georgia O'Keeffe stirs recognition in certain predictable ways: her no-nonsense face... (Multichannel News)
Lifetime biopic 'humanizes' artist Georgia O'Keeffe Sep 18, 2009
Allen stars in Georgia O'Keeffe, an examination of the complicated 30-year relationship of O'Keeffe and her husband, photographer (), airing Saturday on Lifetime (9 ET) ... As in 1991, when and Christopher Plummer emotionally pummeled each other in A Marriage: Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz on PBS' American Playhouse, it's not about the art, it's about well, the drama, scandal and betrayal ... "Who'd be interested if it were just about art?" says Barbara Buhler Lynes, curator of the... (USA Today -- Life)
Mattatuck Museum to Celebrate Mora Sep 18, 2009
He went on to study at the Art Students League in New York and teach budding pupils, including Georgia O'Keeffe, at the League and at the Chase School of Art, now the Parsons New School for Design. As much as Mora was an American, naturalized in 1903, his travel to Spain led to the integration of Old Master techniques into Mora's early classical work. (Litchfield County Times, CT)
Bold Landscapes in Salisbury Show Sep 11, 2009
Comparing Ms. Boris to predecessors like Georgia O'Keeffe, Ms. Sisson explained why the artist's work remains important to the art scene today, "She really had the courage to forge a path for herself in an environment that wasn't always supportive. She was curious and courageous." The Gallery at Kinderhook Group is located at 19 Main St. in Salisbury. The exhibit also may be viewed online at www. (Litchfield County Times, CT)
Vincent Fecteau makes old new again at SFMOMA Sep 3, 2009
Some of it comes blatant, as in the barely abstracted pudenda of Judy Chicago's glazed ceramic "Georgia O'Keeffe Plate #1" (1979), from Chicago's notorious installation "The Dinner Party.". "I think a lot of people find the Judy Chicago really offensive," Fecteau said. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Museum's good friend Aug 22, 2009
The Georgia O'Keeffe Museum and an Albuquerque school named after the artist have patched up their differences over the use of her name. Museum officials had e-mailed Georgia O'Keeffe Elementary School with concerns about possible trademark infringement, but the matter was resolved at a meeting with the school principal ... "The museum does not object to the elementary school's use of Georgia O'Keeffe's name, nor do we object to the selling of T-shirts that feature the school's name for... (Fresno Bee -- Opinion)
Art.view: Ars domestica Aug 16, 2009
In 1949 Georgia O'Keeffe donated 19 works by her late husband, Alfred Stieglitz, writing to Phillips, I think they will be very much at home with you. In 1923 Phillips shelled out a small fortune ($125,000) for Pierre-Auguste Renoir s , anticipating it would be the collection s most popular work. (The Economist)
The paradise that she found Jul 31, 2009
Ralph Ellis Ghost Ranch tour guide Jane Hanna holds up a Georgia O'Keeffe painting of Cerro Pedernal while the flat-topped mountain can be seen in the distance ... Georgia O'Keeffe Museum The Georgia O'Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe, N.M., displays many of the works from the artist and reflects her minimalist style ... Hester Hardaway Georgia O'Keeffe lived in this minimalist house in Abiquiu, New Mexico, during summers at the Ghost Ranch. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Travel)
Georgia O'Keeffe and Lake George Jul 22, 2009
In the early 1920s, Georgia O'Keeffe's long, hot, crowded upstate New York summers with the Stieglitz clan prompted her to turn an old shack into a creative retreat. In 1916, photographer Alfred Stieglitz was asked to look at some drawings done by a then-unknown art teacher named Georgia O Keeffe. (Suite101.com)
Court: O'Keeffe Museum has no right to Fisk University art Jul 16, 2009
The Georgia O'Keeffe Museum objected to the plan, arguing that Fisk was violating the terms of the bequest, which required the works be displayed together, and asking for the artwork to be turned over to the estate ... Nashville Chancellor Ellen Hobbs Lyle ordered last year that the university had to take the collection out of storage and put it back on display or forfeit it to the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum ... But the state appeals court overturned that decision, ruling the Georgia O'Keeffe... (USA Today -- Life)
Down the road a piece Jun 29, 2009
Must see: The Arkell Museum, 2 Erie Blvd., offers 21 works by Winslow Homer and pieces by Georgia O'Keeffe, Childe Hassam and Robert Henri. Housing an art collection established by Beech-Nut founder Bartlett Arkell, the museum underwent a $10. (Albany Times Union)
Joni, But Not Phony Jun 22, 2009
In a hall-of-mirrors way, Kelly, who accompanies himself on guitar and dulcimer, is backed by two of the singer's own idols, Vincent van Gogh (Paul Ossola) on bass and Georgia O'Keeffe (Zecca Esquibel) on keyboards. The set list hops through Mitchell's career in rough chronological order, reaching wide from "The Fishbowl," a poem the songwriter wrote in 10th grade, up to the title track from Mitchell's 2007 album, "Shine.". (New York Post -- Entertainment)
A building for the future Jun 19, 2009
" The architectural plan is that of Rafael Vinoly Architects, a firm brought on by the museum in 2001. The CMA's Strean said six architects expressed interest in the mammoth project. "Four came with proposals, but Vinoly came with a model and a plan," he said. Strean only hinted at the difficulty of winning over the staff of a major metropolitan art museum to such a plan on such a grand scale. "Let's just say he's an incredible presenter," he said. One of the largest and most prestigious art... (Erie Times-News, PA)
Art review: Adams tops O'Keeffe at SFMOMA Jun 3, 2009
I have never seen an exhibition unmake its own argument as openly as "Georgia O'Keeffe and Ansel Adams: Natural Affinities" does. The show, organized by the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe, N.M., opened over the weekend at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art ... But despite SFMOMA's addition of an exciting miscellany of works from its own collection as context, "Georgia O'Keeffe and Ansel Adams" cannot - perhaps no show could - evoke the climate of dispute in which photographs depended on... (San Francisco Chronicle)
Critic's picks - visual art May 17, 2009
DOVE/O'KEEFFE: CIRCLES OF INFLUENCE An exhibition exploring the influence on Georgia O'Keeffe of America's first abstract painter, Arthur Dove. The two were introduced by Alfred Stieglitz, who would later become O'Keeffe's husband. (Boston Globe)
Phillips Collection Annual Gala Unites Washington's Notables in Support of Arts Education May 17, 2009
The Phillips Collection offers an intimate encounter with one of the finest collections of impressionist and modern American and European art, with works by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Vincent van Gogh, Edgar Degas, Henri Matisse, Pierre Bonnard, Paul Cezanne, Pablo Picasso, Paul Klee, Claude Monet, Honore Daumier, Georgia O'Keeffe, Arthur Dove, Mark Rothko, Milton Avery, Jacob Lawrence, and Richard Diebenkorn, among others. The Phillips Collection, America's first museum of modern art, has an active... (PR Newswire)
Warhol to Galileo to Glyndebourne Apr 19, 2009
On display one finds some very celebrated subjects, indeed: Marilyn Monroe, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Richard Nixon, Elizabeth Taylor, Georgia O'Keeffe, Mao Zedong, David Hockney. The exhibition includes some 100 Warhol paintings. (Boston Globe)
Billboards give drivers a creative jolt Mar 29, 2009
Charles D. Warnock's painting "A Compliment of Three" (currently in rotation) offers three extremely close-up views of flowers with a voluptuousness fans of Georgia O'Keeffe will appreciate. Bob Hart's "Young Girls Pick Them Every One" (on the Athens Perimeter near the Commerce Road exit) is an impressionist look at a summery wedding party, all decked out in gold and orange. (Athens Banner-Herald)
Expanding Rockwell's legacy in Massachusetts Feb 10, 2009
Yet it is a common strategy for single-artist institutions, like the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh. Broadening the focus is regarded as a way to show the work in context and keep the reputation renewed, as well as widen avenues for funding. (International Herald Tribune)
