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A Running Record of Findings from the Internet / August 18, 2026

Georgia O'Keeffe on the Art of Seeing

O'Keeffe explains why she painted her flowers so large: to force viewers to stop and truly look, rather than settle for the sexual reading critics kept projecting onto her work. As she put it, nobody really sees a flower.

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By Maria Popova · The Marginalian

Georgia O'Keeffe, Red Canna (1924)
Georgia O'Keeffe, Red Canna (1924)
Design
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  3. César Pelli's Last Building Finally Gives Lola Mora's Sculptures a Home

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  4. Designer Luca Ricci Turns Optical Illusion Into Furniture

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Arts & Culture

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  3. An Artist Recreated Hokusai's Great Wave Using 750,000 Dahlias

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  4. Mary Heilmann, Painter of Irreverent Abstractions, Dies at 86

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Sound

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  2. Inside Colectivo Casa Amarela, the Label Building a New Music Scene in Portugal

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  3. Watch Yusuke Yukimatsu DJ a Technics Set Atop Tokyo Tower

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  4. Charli XCX's Lollapalooza Set Was a Career-Defining Triumph

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Collecting

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  2. This Week in Watches: An Eclipse MoonSwatch and IWC's Mercedes Tribute

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  3. This Week's Best Vintage Toy Finds on eBay

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Document
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  3. Cataloging a Century of British Photography History

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Film

  1. Ten Films That Show How William Greaves Broke Documentary's Rules

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  2. Catherine Opie on Three Decades of Teaching Photography

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  3. A Century of American Photography Goes on View in London

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  4. Filmmakers Spent Four Years Following a Lion's Journey to Become King

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