What is so fascinating about looking at other people’s books? I must admit I’m particularly thrilled by this new project to catalog every book in minimalist artist Donald Judd’s 13,004 volume private library with an interactive online program that shows you images of each broad wooden shelf and what is in it. You can click [...]
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A stark wooden vitrine showcases a stunning work by the minimalist sculptor Carl Andre at the Chinati Foundation in Marfa, Texas, “one hundred sonnets, I…flower.” To be honest, I didn’t know much about Andre as of three days ago. (And I wish I hadn’t googled him today.) I went to Marfa for the divine Judds and [...]
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Georgia O’Keeffe moved into, out of and around West Texas in her twenties, and the wide open skies she found there changed her life. For several years she taught art, soaked up the atmosphere, and made some of her most enduring work, like “Evening Star VI, 1917.” “That evening star fascinated me. It was in [...]
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