Art review: Adams tops O'Keeffe at SFMOMA

Jun. 1, 2009
I have never seen an exhibition unmake its own argument as openly as "Georgia O'Keeffe and Ansel Adams: Natural Affinities" does. The show, organized by the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe, N.M., opened over the weekend at the San Francisco Museum of...
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