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Museum Pages: Botticelli, AI, and Missing the Point
I’ve worried that the intensity of my outrage might make me sound less reasonable. But you know what? I’m both pissed off and correct.
Jul 10, 2025
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Museum Pages: Frida Kahlo and the Artist’s Body
on making art while in pain
Dec 18, 2024
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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.
Sep 3, 2024
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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.
Apr 22, 2024
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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…
Mar 19, 2024
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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…
Jan 11, 2024
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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…
Dec 15, 2023
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