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At the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Texas: Oct. 17, 2021-Jan. 23, 2022. Georgia O’Keeffe (1887-1986) Photo by Alfred Stieglitz,1918 Following her death in 1986, more than 400 of Georgia O’Keeffe’s photographs were given to the Georgia O’Keeffe Foundation…
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Sharon Lorenzo intrigues us with early American weathervanes. This marvelous exhibition of historic weathervanes traces the evolution of an art form that began as a utilitarian object in ancient China and Greece during the 2nd Century BCE. On the agora…
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Header image: The Tate Modern Museum, London, UK, Herzog and de Meuron, 2000 A Book Review by Sharon Lorenzo This title was recommended to me via an online chat by former director Michael Shapiro from the High Museum of Art…
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“Julie Mehretu makes art that is big enough to get lost in.” Wall St. Journal [1] Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC The artwork of Julie Mehretu fills the entire fifth floor of the Whitney Museum in New York City…
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Alice Walton opens the new addition to The Momentary in a spectacular event that Sharon Lorenzo attended. Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, 2011 My husband and I had the great privilege of being invited as the guests of…
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Sharon Lorenzo explores the history of silhouettes. Silhouette of Sarah Margaret Fuller by Henry Williams, 1830. Concord Museum. Before the invention of photography emerged in the United States about 1839, only the wealthy patrician could afford the luxury of…
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Innovative works – stand back, take a good look, and feel the joy. Sharon Lorenzo reports from the cobblestone streets of Nantucket. Seward Johnson (1930-) met his current wife Cecelia Joyce on a flight to Nantucket, and they have…
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Sharon Lorenzo tours the Ivy League museums. New Yorker Cartoon: I am sure it’s positively indecent if we could just figure it out! As the large museums in our country struggle with the rules and regulations of de-accessing works of…
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Sharon Lorenzo views the Art of Native America exhibit. For 45 years Charles and Valerie Diker have been collecting items to add to their extraordinary assortment of Native American art holdings, 101 of which are now part of the collection…
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