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Museum Pages: Frida Kahlo and the Artist’s Body
on making art while in pain
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Museum Pages: On Mary Cassatt and “Women’s Fiction”
She was a woman, unapologetically making art about women’s everyday lives. In the 1800s.
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Museum Pages: Georgia O’Keeffe’s Guide to Revision
The word that echoed in my mind as I looked at these watercolors was “refinement.” The final piece was so satisfying—it felt clean, sure of itself.
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Museum Pages: Setting as Mood in the Old Gem Hall
I could think of no more perfect example than the renovation of the Gem Hall to demonstrate what is lost when a setting is left vague and generic…
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Museum Pages: John Singer Sargent and Writing About Real People
I’d already begun to think of character work as portraiture, and once I was in the gallery at the Morgan, I wondered why it hadn’t occurred to me sooner…
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Museum Pages: Lessons on Essay Drafting from Edward Hopper
It didn’t help that the sun was setting every day at barely 4pm, making every evening feel like an insomniac’s 3am as I paced and fretted, anticipating…
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