Day One MAD is now scheduled for Saturday January 17. I am driving from Buffalo to DC on that Friday so by Saturday morning or thereabouts I should be all set for my first MAD.
What's on the agenda? Just read a review of a Miro show at MOMA in the November 10th issue of The New Yorker. Peter Schjeldahl referred to "The Farm" which he called "... a treasure in the National Gallery in Washington". Sounds good to me!
Now Buffalo has the Albright-Knox - a world class art musuem -and another good one the Burchfield-Penney just opened in November; there's lots of good stuff - but when have I ever been able to walk out my front door and grab public transportation to see a work of art that I read about in a magazine?
Too much stimulation overwhelms me in museums. I'd rather see a few things really intensely than race from item to item. So while I'm sure I'll get distracted on my way to and from The Farm , I'll try to focus on that one painting and anything closely related and close by. And since I am making my own MAD rules, I can go back another day.
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