All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
~Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest, 1895
What a lovely weekend in Los Angeles! The weather was cool and clear both Saturday and Sunday. To celebrate, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art had a members appreciation weekend for Mother’s Day. The first-ever career retrospective of American artist, Dan Flavin, was the hook. Although there were 40 seminal works, the show stopper was Flavin’s stunning corridors for the E.F. Hauserman Company showroom, an installation which opened at the Pacific Design Center in March 1982. My personal favorite was ‘icon (the heart) (to the light of Sean McGovern which blesses everyone)’.Congratulations, LACMA. Please don’t miss it! And while you’re there, The Modern West: American Landscapes expands the theme. Even Jackson Pollack is included.
On Sunday, I joined my friend, Nancy Snow, for a showing of “Waitress”. We chose a Mom movie (with gift bags) as both of us have mothers who live in other parts of the country and, here we were, on Mother’s Day, with no plans for that traditional Mother’s Day Brunch. I think we were both hoping for a piece of ‘falling-in-love-pie’ in the gift bag. Instead there was a recipe card for numerous pie concoctions and the May issue of Martha Stewart Living. “Waitress” is Adrienne Shelly’s sunny final film starring Keri Russell as a woman stuck in a bad marriage with a baby on the way. For more about Nancy, visit www.nancysnow.com.In the photos:
Dan Flavin's greens crossing greens, 1966 (top)
Nancy Snow and yours truly (bottom)
