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...place she called the "tail end of the world," she decided to go where none of those artists had ventured. Drawing on the liquid forms of Art Nouveau and her own churning inner life, she produced an astonishing series of purely abstract charcoal drawings, some of the most radical work being done anywhere at that moment...
...that time, O'Keeffe had reintroduced color into her work. Her typical canvases were eruptions of soft form, like the cresting fiddleheads of mauve, orange and green in Series I, No. 4, from 1918. But she also worked in a taut, sharp-edged register that produced work like Red & Orange Streak, from the following year. Nothing about a picture like that suggests it's the work of a woman, but from early on, critics treated her paintings as bulletins from the Eternal Feminine. In her plump bulbs of color and shadowy openings they found the swells and inlets...
...grant that a lot of O'Keeffe's work invites those readings. When you're faced with the labial purple coils of a painting like Music, Pink and Blue No. 2, from 1918, what else can you think about? But what's so refreshing about the Whitney show - which runs through Jan. 17, then moves to Washington and Santa Fe, N.M. - is the way it spares us O'Keeffe the Earth Mother and points us back to the endlessly inventive formalist she remained, intermittently, to the end of her life...
...Letterman has always maintained a public persona as - and I say this with affection - a jerk. Entertainers suffer when their scandals undercut their image (see Peewee Herman), but Letterman has usually kept as chilly about his personal life as he keeps the Ed Sullivan Theater. If you boycotted the work of every heel, liar and philanderer, you'd opt out of much of the creative output of human history...
...completed work is 49 pages, which you can download as a PDF. While it doesn't tell my entire life story, Strauss was convinced that maybe hanging out with his subjects for months, reading through their e-mails and taping them for 20 hours is overkill. "I should have done all my books like this," he said. I get the weird feeling that Strauss is hoping a publisher will ask us to finish my memoir. Though I don't know, with our schedules, if we can find the seven hours...