Georgia O'Keefe on my mind

Artisté Florenza and I took in the Georgia O'Keefe exhibit at the Whitney. Fantastic. I love walking into an exhibit wondering if it's going to be worth my time and end up being blown off my feet. I wanted to take 8-Year Old Daughter but this was an exhibit of O'Keefe's abstract paintings and I thought they'd be inaccessible to her. I want to be careful how I dole this stuff out. For instance, I'd never take her to a Francis Bacon exhibit. She'd have nightmares for months.

I didn't find O'Keefe's abstracts to be all that abstract, which is a good thing. Abstract expressionism is pretty hard core stuff that I sometimes have a problem digesting. Like some forms of jazz, it's art that's best appreciated by other artists, not mainstream schmoes like me.

There was a healthy representation of her beautiful floral works.

Her paintings of flowers have been said to have a somewhat feminine bent to them. Do you agree or is that just people being sensational?



Note to Nursemyra: Do you know who Roni Horn is? They allocated *two floors* of space for her current exhibit! I know she's a pretty big deal and I tried to keep an open mind but I wasn't very impressed.