Gertrude Stein managed her life to make her writing possible.
Blog Posts on Art
Rose B. Simpson: Leaving Fingerprints Behind
I remember when I first met Rose at her booth in Santa Fe’s August Indian Market. She had hung an astonishing large color photograph on the front of her booth…
Promise
Twice in my life, I’ve had the rare privilege of encountering a young woman of promise. Only twice because promise is handed out randomly or according to a pattern I can’t discern.
Do We Collaborate
The idea of collaborating has always made me a little squeamish.
Thread Dresses
Just as I was beginning to feel discouraged came a revelation as I was getting a cup of coffee at my neighborhood hangout here in Santa Fe.
The Abandoned
An indication of the “treatment” they were given is shown in Lundy’s sketches of the medicine bottles she found: mercury cyanide, mercury chloride and tincture of belladonna (deadly nightshade.) The sketches are burnt into paper with a soldering iron.
The Judy
Her life has been full of difficulties but she has made or forced her way through, never using excuses, always questioning why the art world, which has been so cruel to her until very recently, diminishes the importance of women’s art.
I Speak for Democracy
I, along with thousands of other teenagers, did “speak for democracy” in a laboriously fashioned essay, presented on the radio, and winning me a prize—a black and white TV set my parents insisted that I return.
Murder in Mississippi
I know what to expect of Rockwell’s art, or I thought I did: homey sentimental depictions of an America that no longer exists and perhaps never did.
How History Is
I was delighted to visit, yesterday morning, Nikesha Breeze’s astonishing show, “Four Sites of Return: Ritual, Remembrance, Reparation, Reclamation” at form & concept gallery.