We visited the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe. It's pretty small, but they're building a much larger facility a few blocks away right now. In fact, we saw them having some sort of construction meeting next to a weird materials test structure behind the fence: This vertical structure beind the fence is a temporary mockup for the testing of materials for the New Georgia O'Keeffe Museum. The New Museum will be a 54,000 sq ft facility on the south side of this lot. The current museum is small enough that it's pretty packed at all times. We were there midday on a weekday and there were probably more than ten people in most of the (relatively small) main gallery rooms at any given time. She's still popular! The first several gallery rooms had a lot to say about whether her plant paintings were sexual or not. I remember walking through I think three different rooms, back-to-back, which all had text on the walls about O'Keeffe denying that her plant images were sexual. Some of them were…
No comments yet. Log in to reply on the Fediverse. Comments will appear here.