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Linda M Grasso

@okeeffefeminism.bsky.social
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Professor of English, York College, CUNY. Faculty, MALS, BAM, and WGS, CUNY Graduate Center. Author of Equal Under the Sky: Georgia O'Keeffe and Twentieth-Century Feminism (U of New Mexico Press) and The Artistry of Anger (U of North Carolina Press)

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Linda M Grasso @okeeffefeminism.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Writing and teaching at 90. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/s... #academicsky
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How to Really Listen, According to Someone Who Has Been Doing It for Decades (Gift Article)
Carol Gilligan’s groundbreaking feminist book “In a Different Voice” is more than 40 years old. She wishes it weren’t still so relevant.
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Linda M Grasso @okeeffefeminism.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Yet again, Georgia O'Keeffe is referenced in an article about fashion. One way she continues to live and stay fresh in each era. www.theguardian.com/fashion/2026...
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‘I love the boldness of modernism’: New York fashion week goes highbrow
Georgia O’Keeffe inspires the latest Calvin Klein while Michael Kors feels indebted to Alexander Calder
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Linda M Grasso @okeeffefeminism.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I trust Sarah Polley to do a job job on this. I hope the film does justice to the complexities in the novel, especially the mother/daughter relationship and women's friendships. We'll see. ttps://variety.com/2026/music/news/bell-jar-movie-cast-connor-storrie-billie-eilish-sarah-polley-1236854835/
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Danielle Deadwyler, Ike Barinholtz and Connor Storrie Join Billie Eilish and Carey Mulligan in ‘The Bell Jar’
Sarah Polley's "The Bell Jar" movie will star Billie Eilish, Carey Mulligan, Danielle Deadwyler, Ike Barinholtz and Connor Storrie.
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Linda M Grasso @okeeffefeminism.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Yet another loss. Robin Morgan, poet and second-wave feminist credited with coining ‘herstory,’ dies at 85 www.nbcnews.com/news/obituar...
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Robin Morgan, poet and second-wave feminist who is credited with coining ‘herstory,’ dies at 85
The 1970 essay anthology she edited, “Sisterhood is Powerful,” is considered one of the essential texts of the modern women’s movement.
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Linda M Grasso @okeeffefeminism.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Steinem’s N.Y.C. Brownstone Will Continue to Be a Sanctuary for Feminism www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/n...
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Steinem’s N.Y.C. Brownstone Will Continue to Be a Sanctuary for Feminism
Following Ms. Steinem’s death on Wednesday, her foundation said her Upper East Side home would become a permanent space for organizing and activism.
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Linda M Grasso @okeeffefeminism.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
What a wonderful way to begin Fall 2026 @yorkcollegecuny.bsky.social @cuny.edu I suggested creating a bookshelf of donated books for students. President Schrader made it happen, named it the "book nook," donated a beautiful velvet couch, and here we are with a student. Shelves are filling up fast!
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Linda M Grasso @okeeffefeminism.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
So many losses. Gloria Steinem, Personification of the Women’s Movement, Dies at 92 www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/u...
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Gloria Steinem, Personification of the Feminist Movement, Dies at 92
She challenged sexist assumptions, helping women develop a sense of self-worth and gain a measure of equality at work, at home and in society at large.
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Linda M Grasso @okeeffefeminism.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Seems like it is still relevant to point out that women artists and their work, especially if they are beautiful, are made inferior to men artists and their work. hyperallergic.com/maria-martin...
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Maria Martins Was More Than Just Duchamp’s Lover
A new book by leading Duchamp scholar Francis M. Naumann chronicles the artist’s affair with the Brazilian sculptor, but frequently reduces her influence and career to sexual allure.
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Linda M Grasso @okeeffefeminism.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Dolly Parton and Yayoi Kusama: Someone should do a book. Yayoi Kusama, Pop Artist Who Expanded and Endured, Dies at 97 www.nytimes.com/2026/08/26/a...
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Yayoi Kusama, Japanese Pop Artist Known for Polka-Dot Paintings, Dies at 97
The Japanese artist’s polka-dot-covered paintings, phallic sculptures and public performances caused a stir in New York City and Europe in the 1960s.
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Linda M Grasso @okeeffefeminism.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Yet another loss. I use an early photograph of Yayoi Kusama in a Seattle art gallery to begin my research methods class. Georgia O'Keeffe mentored her. apnews.com/article/yayo...
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Yayoi Kusama, who splashed polka dots across the art world, dies at 97 in Tokyo
Pioneering Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama, who splashed her signature polka dots on paintings, sculptures and museum installations around the world, has died. She was 97.
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Linda M Grasso @okeeffefeminism.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I was all set to teach Huck Finn @yorkcollegecuny.bsky.social as I always do, but then the 300-level US Literature class was cancelled due to lack of enrollment. Let's hope we still have classes to teach and public universities to house them. #academicsky. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/m...
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How Should ‘Huckleberry Finn’ Be Taught?
I traveled around the country to find out if “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” still has a place in the classroom.
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Linda M Grasso @okeeffefeminism.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Nicely explained. These 20 Words Are Worth a Thousand Pictures www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Take 10 Seconds to Read This Ezra Pound Poem. Think About It All Day.
People-watchers, trainspotters and A.O. Scott agree: Ezra Pound’s “In a Station of the Metro” is one of the shortest great poems in English.
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Linda M Grasso @okeeffefeminism.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
She Survives a Mass Shooting, but Tells No One She Was There www.nytimes.com/2026/08/17/b...
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Book Review: ‘Dèy,’ by Edwidge Danticat
In Edwidge Danticat’s new novel, “Dèy,” a Haitian American mother in Miami experiences the numbing aftershocks of a random act of violence.
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Linda M Grasso @okeeffefeminism.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
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Locating Girlhood: Place and Identity in Early American “Schoolgirl” Art | American Folk Art Museum
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Linda M Grasso @okeeffefeminism.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
This sounds like a fun read. #academicsky www.publishersweekly.com/9780691291666
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Monstrous Bitch: A History of Terrifying Women by Eleanor Johnson
“Patriarchy has needed—for literally thousands of years—to embody in monstrous form the things about women that it most desperat...
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Linda M Grasso @okeeffefeminism.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
I love Olga Soffer's reinvention story and I love the roles the @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social and @cuny.edu play in it. #academicsky Olga Soffer, Fashion Maven Who Studied Caveman Couture, Dies at 83 www.nytimes.com/2026/08/01/s...
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Olga Soffer, Fashion Maven Who Studied Caveman Couture, Dies at 83
After working for a department store, she switched to archaeology and made important discoveries about prehistoric clothes and gender roles.
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Linda M Grasso @okeeffefeminism.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Rest in power. A beautifully written tribute. hyperallergic.com/betye-saar-w...
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Betye Saar, Who Opened Portals Between Worlds, Dies at 99
Her visionary assemblages recast the debris of American history into monuments of Black resilience and liberation.
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Linda M Grasso @okeeffefeminism.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
How nice to see an article about hold-in-your-hand books and reading! www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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How to Spend a Bookish Afternoon in Midtown Manhattan (Gift Article)
This walking tour through the bustling heart of New York City includes bookstores, great reading spots and literary-themed snacks.
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Linda M Grasso @okeeffefeminism.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
When Miss America Made Feminists Mad www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/b...
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Book Review: ‘Liberation Summer,’ by Micki McElya
A new book by the historian Micki McElya considers how the politics of beauty both shaped and divided the women’s movement.
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Linda M Grasso @okeeffefeminism.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
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Betye Saar, Artist Who Upended Black Stereotypes, Dies at 99 (Gift Article)
Working with dolls, family photographs, fabric scraps and other found objects, she became a leading figure in assemblage art.
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Linda M Grasso @okeeffefeminism.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Maybe we are going to be reading banned, out-of-print mimeographed texts again. #academicskly msmagazine.com/2026/06/09/f...
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How I Became a Feminist Historian, and Why It Matters Now More Than Ever
In August, the Department of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University of Texas at Austin will close. I joined the department last year after leaving the University of Iowa’s Gender, Wom...
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Linda M Grasso @okeeffefeminism.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Does ‘All Men Are Created Equal’ Include Women? www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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How Susan B. Anthony Used Language in the Fight for Women’s Rights
In the fight for women’s rights, language has always been a battleground, our critic Parul Seghal explains.
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Linda M Grasso @okeeffefeminism.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Congratulations @bam-bio-mem.bsky.social @cuny.edu graduate Vanessa Botelho! We look forward to using your book in our classes. www.gc.cuny.edu/news/alumna-...
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Alumna Wins Fulbright to Trace Journey from India to Brooklyn to TV News
Vanessa Botelho, a CUNY Newmark J-School professor, will use the prestigious fellowship to research the book she began as a Graduate Center master’s student.
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Linda M Grasso @okeeffefeminism.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Congratulations Kandice Chuh! How lucky we are to have you @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social @cuny.edu www.gc.cuny.edu/news/kandice...
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Kandice Chuh Named CUNY Graduate Center Associate Provost
Prominent cultural studies scholar and longtime professor will play a lead role in overseeing academic programs and research centers.
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Linda M Grasso @okeeffefeminism.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
So sad: hyperallergic.com/marjane-satr...
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Marjane Satrapi, "Persepolis" Author and Human Rights Fighter, Dies at 56
One of her friends said the artist and filmmaker “died of sadness” after her husband’s death just over a year ago.
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Linda M Grasso @okeeffefeminism.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Finally got to see Mary Callery's sculpture, which adorns proscenium at the Metropolitan Opera House at a mesmerizing performance of El Ultimo Sueno De Friday Y Diego.
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Linda M Grasso @okeeffefeminism.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Honored to be in this new documentary about @Georgia O'Keeffe, which begins streaming June 1. @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social @bam-bio-mem.bsky.social @yorkcollegeucu.bsky.social #academicsky www.digitaljournal.com/entertainmen...
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Oscar winner Paul Wagner talks about 'Georgia O'Keeffe: The Brightness of Light' documentary
Oscar winner Paul Wagner chatted about writing and directing the documentary "Georgia O'Keeffe: The Brightness of Light."
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Linda M Grasso @okeeffefeminism.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Yet more about professorial despair, disgust, and distrust. I keep reading these articles because they affirm @cuny.edu reality and sometimes offer actionable approaches. I really like the video responses idea. #academicsky www.newyorker.com/news/fault-l...
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The Despair of the Professor in the Age of A.I.
“Was it always the case that half of our students would cheat if it were easy enough?”
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Linda M Grasso @okeeffefeminism.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
"The book is closer to an anti-manifesto, if anything, an investigation into what escapes our grasp, how thoroughly we can conceal knowledge from ourselves, and how we are encouraged to do so." www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/m...
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Gisèle Pelicot’s Memoir Said Something Original and Taboo About Victimhood
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Linda M Grasso @okeeffefeminism.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
My wonderful colleagues @yorkcollegecuny.bsky.social @cuny.edu Faculty Publication Workshop who did great work this year. (left to right) Julieanne Guadalupe, Pat Haggler, Shirell Roeback, @okeeffefeminism.bsky.social, Jason Herel, Anthony Sparacino www.york.cuny.edu/academic-aff... #academicsky
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Linda M Grasso @okeeffefeminism.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Congratulations Gail Levin who has done so much for women artists. #academicsky #womenartists @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social www.gc.cuny.edu/news/overloo...
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An Overlooked Painter Gets Her Due in a New Biography
Distinguished Professor Gail Levin explores how abstract expressionist Alice Baber built a celebrated career and why she later faded from view.
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Linda M Grasso @okeeffefeminism.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Thank you @kalinicolegross.bsky.social. So important to return to anger and its political uses. www.aaihs.org/fury-and-dis... #academicsky
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Fury and Disrepute: Black Women’s Feminism in Lawless Times - AAIHS
We rarely read stories about unrespectable women. When we do, they are often white, middle class, heterosexual, and cisgender. Unrespectable women in history are typically framed as selfless martyrs w...
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Linda M Grasso @okeeffefeminism.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
“The injury is not limited to the loss of money,” Judge McMahon said. #academicsky www.nytimes.com/2026/05/07/a...
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DOGE’s Termination of Humanities Grants Is Ruled Unconstitutional
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Linda M Grasso @okeeffefeminism.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Congratulations @Bess Wohl and everyone else involved in making this play happen. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/04/t...
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‘Liberation,’ a Memory Play About ’70s Feminism, Wins Drama Pulitzer
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Linda M Grasso @okeeffefeminism.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Thank you, thank you, thank you for powerful, incisive analysis @hakantopal.info. "An art school, college, or university . . . produces . . . a capacity for thinking, for argument, for questioning without a predetermined answer." #art school #academicsky #higher Ed
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Linda M Grasso @okeeffefeminism.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Yet another article about AI, teaching, and learning. Tiresome. Best are the comments in which faculty suggest good pedagogical strategies and confirm what we are all experiencing. But no answers for online teaching or the larger issues. #academicsky www.nytimes.com/2026/04/30/u...
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How A.I. Killed Student Writing (and Revived It)
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Art Herstory @artherstory.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Women Pioneers of the Arts and Crafts Movement Edited by Karen Livingstone Reviewed by Sarah Lear, University of York, in Vidimus www.vidimus.org/books/women-...
Front cover of a book, featuring a side view of the face and neck of a white woman, against a background of foliage and berries. The title, publisher's logo and author's name overwrite the image, in white text.
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Linda M Grasso @okeeffefeminism.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
I appreciate how thoughtful the writer, filmmaker, and musician are about art-making. @brown.edu is the perfect place for artists-in-the-making to be. “Failure is how you learn, too. Even things that seem like failure at the time redefine themselves over time.” www.brown.edu/news/2026-04...
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Paul McCartney reflects on life beyond the Beatles at ‘Man on the Run’ screening hosted by Brown
In a sold-out screening and conversation moderated by President Christina H. Paxson, Paul McCartney and filmmaker Morgan Neville talked reinvention, loss and the drive to keep creating.
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Linda M Grasso @okeeffefeminism.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Environmental Scientist Dawn Roberts-Semple, my colleague @yorkcollegecuny.bsky.social @cuny.edu, is doing important collaborative, international, and social justice work with students and the local community. #academicsky www.cuny.edu/news/breathi...
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26 Colleges. One University.
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Linda M Grasso @okeeffefeminism.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
We can sure use some women laughing right now. Many women @newyorker.com cartoonists trained at the Art Students League of NY and are included in 150 Stories: Lives of the Artists. Thank you @lizadonnelly.bsky.social ihttps://www.womenlaughingfilm.com/about?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
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About the Film — WOMEN LAUGHING
A documentary about the women cartoonists who have graced the pages of The New Yorker from the first issue to the present day, as well as a fun and insightful look at how women’s humor has always refl...
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Linda M Grasso @okeeffefeminism.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Inspiring. hyperallergic.com/joan-semmel-... @womensart #NewYork
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Joan Semmel Is Doing Her Best Work at 93
“You say, ‘Fuck you. I'm good and you're wrong,’” she told Hyperallergic. “This is who I am, this is what I do, and this is what I care about.”
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Linda M Grasso @okeeffefeminism.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Exciting! www.nypl.org/blog/2026/03... #blackSky #academicSky
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Linda M Grasso @okeeffefeminism.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
So much enjoying 150 Stories: Lives of the Artists at the League and learning about the many women artists who trained at the Art Students League of NY such as muralist Hildreth Meiere @womenart.bsky.social www.thirteen.org/programs/nyc...
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Profile: Hildreth Meière | NYC-ARTS
A profile of Hildreth Meière one of the most renowned American muralists of the 20th century. Working with leading architects of her day, Hildreth designed about 100 commissions. Her best-known works ...
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Linda M Grasso @okeeffefeminism.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
All @georgiaokeeffe.bsky.social scholars are indebted to Barbara Buhler Lynes and @okeeffemuseum.bsky.social for their meticulous and revelatory work that makes our work possible. www.okeeffemuseum.org/barbara-buhl...
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A Scholar’s Mark on the Art World: Barbara Buhler Lynes and O’Keeffe’s Catalogue Raisonné - The Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
Celebrating Women’s History Month with the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum In recognition of Women’s History Month, the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum is sharing stories about women who…
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Linda M Grasso @okeeffefeminism.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Building an interdisciplinary Scholarly community with wonderful colleagues @yorkcollegecuny.bsky.social @cuny.edu
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Linda M Grasso @okeeffefeminism.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
An illustration of Kenyon Cox's women's painting class at The Art Students League of NY from 1891 @atlantic.com article. Women were students from the school's inception; however, painting-from-the-nude classes were gender segregated. @ @womeninart.bsky.social @nationalwca.org
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Linda M Grasso @okeeffefeminism.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Congratulations @okeeffemuseum.bsky.social on providing this wonderful research tool, which so many of us will use. hyperallergic.com/georgia-okee...
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Georgia O'Keeffe Museum Launches Digital Catalogue Raisonné
Anyone can now browse through over 2,000 works by the artist, including paintings, handwritten letters, and early sketches.
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Linda M Grasso @okeeffefeminism.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Knowledge? Ideas? The trend @cuny.edu etc. emphasizing that college is to get jobs; faculty need to prepare degree maps; and career services is in academic affairs is part of this picture. #academicsky Hampshire College Will Close Amid Student Enrollment Declines www.nytimes.com/2026/04/14/u...
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Hampshire College Will Close Amid Student Enrollment Declines
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Linda M Grasso @okeeffefeminism.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Thank you @loisromano.bsky.social. "Perspective shapes narrative. . . . Ultimately, who tells the story matters often as much as whose story is being told." @bam-bio-mem.bsky.social #academicsky www.nytimes.com/2026/04/11/o...
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Opinion | The Truth About Mary Todd Lincoln
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Linda M Grasso @okeeffefeminism.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
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It’s Gabriele Münter’s World, We’re Just Living in It
It is her home, her landscape, her family and friends, portrayed in these images that feel miles away from her contemporaries’ modernist abstraction.
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