We were lucky to get a seat at the MAG’s afternoon presentation of “The Great Confusion: The 1913 Armory Show,” Michael Maglaras’s documentary about the now infamous show of radical art (Europeans, Cezanne, Renoir, Van Gogh and Marcel Duchamp as well Americans, Marsden Hartley and John Marin) that took place a century ago. We were fifteen minutes early, rarity for us, and the only seats available were right down front which is right where we usually sit regardless of how crowded the theater is. The film was very good but how could it not be, centering on pieces like Matisse’s “Blue Nude.” Carol Acquilano was sitting behind us and she reminded us that this was the last day for Rochester Contemporary’s 23rd Annual Members Show.
So after the movie we were some of the last visitors on its last day, in fact Peggi and I took our pieces home with us when we left the gallery. Every member gets to contribute one piece and each time you visit the show you get to put a small yellow sticker next to your favorite piece. I put mine next to Kaavl Obijn’s “Holy Night,” a mixed media piece that could have landed Kaavl in prison if RoCo was in Russia. It was rather hard to photograph but you should be able to tell that parents, Joseph and Mary, the shepherds and wise men and most of the animals are gathered around a small tv set in the corner of the manger while the Christ child is let unattended.
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This is fantastic. Hope you keep it, as I would love to see it. Wish we had made it but Sam suffered from the polar vortex and bit me like a vampire. Tetanus shots, two doctors, three nurses, and 10 days of sledge-hammer anti-biotics. Jesus, stay in the crib.
Off to vet 🙂