Maybe I am a little bit ahead of MAD - after all, I'm still in Buffalo- but today I went to the brand new Burchfield Penney Art Center here and it was a wow! My younger son is home (so to speak) on Winter Break; he joined me and we were both overwhelmed by the structure and the art it contains. BP is the first free standing art museum constructed in Buffalo in over a hundred years so it's sort of momentous. Yet today was the Saturday of a holiday weekend and while there were people around it was not crowded. We could get close to the paintings and take our time.
The emotional intensity of Charles Burchfield's unique mix of fantasy and urban landscapes were pretty much all we could take in. We did wander through the room that showed art works depicting Buffalo at earlier times in its history and talked about a city, which we usually think of a solid and unchanging, as being an evolving organism that changes almost without our notice. How I would love to go back in time and visit Buffalo at the height of its prosperity at the turn of the 20th Century! Can't wait to go back to BP again. Milton Rogovin's Appalachia Revisited
is next.
What was next this afternoon was lunch at Globe Market. Curried pumpkin soup seemed just right after the museum and a horseradish potato egg roll tasted even better than it sounds. And lots of good conversation. We asked for containers to take home the leftover soup, and then gave them back before we left; we had finished everything.
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