The End Of The Lion
Sorry, couldn't resist. Paris, just outside musée Jeu de Paume.
I invited my photographer friend Sue Rynski to visit the museum with me.
There, I saw the worst "art" I've seen in years; some of it by this guy.
Looks like it could be good, huh? Black and white boxing photographs, maybe? Nuh-uh.
Blame my flawed French and my rush to find something exciting to see at a museum. I read in Pariscope that they had a bunch of paintings confiscated from Jews during the war. Only they didn't. Read too fast. The place was a storage facility during the war for paintings confiscated.
These days, they're showing a bunch of dull photographs and poorly shot, uninteresting videos, and then, the coup de disgrace, an "homage" to Austrian expressionist Oskar Kokoschka, whose work I'd hoped to see (in the stuff confiscated from the Jews).
Instead, as an homage to Mahler's wife, who Kokoschka had an affair with, we have Savary's tragic waste of a bunch of perfectly good toilet seat covers.
LACMA used to have a lot of Kokoschka stuff in that main building, the one behind the box office.
Alma was a spirit gal.
Crid at February 26, 2008 2:44 AM
ted. SpiriTED. Sorry, it's late.
Crid at February 26, 2008 2:45 AM
I'm a big fan of German and Austrian expressionism, and one of my favorite museums, which shows it, is in NYC: Neue Galerie
http://www.neuegalerie.org/main.html?langkey=english
Amy Alkon at February 26, 2008 5:21 AM
Well, at least Michael Jackson seemed to enjoy the exhibition. He's really letting himself go though.
eric at February 26, 2008 7:58 AM
Very funny!
Amy Alkon at February 26, 2008 8:16 AM
is that a giant black hairy crotch?
dena at February 26, 2008 11:31 AM
Wow. Ugly art. By contrast, Ms. Rynski is crazy hot.
I'm all into Egon Schiele.
Did I mention that Ms. Rynski is rather hot?
Jeff at February 26, 2008 3:15 PM
Wow, proof that Micheal Jackson and Bigfoot has a bastard child!
Bikerken at February 27, 2008 12:40 AM
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