First let me report that the art in the Barnes Collection has never looked better. My trips to the old Barnes were always amazing but except on the sunniest days you could barely see the art. The building always felt pushed beyond its capacity.
John Currin's exaggerated realism and his twisted women kept me off balance...
It's amazing that something only an atom thick can be an impenetrable...
Lawrence Ferlinghetti had a tremendous education as an artist and also an enormous knowledge of literarture.