{"id":1023,"date":"2014-07-15T20:29:35","date_gmt":"2014-07-16T03:29:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.talkinggrid.com\/dev\/?p=1023"},"modified":"2014-07-15T20:32:29","modified_gmt":"2014-07-16T03:32:29","slug":"lets-go-watch-caravaggio-lacma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/talkinggrid.com\/dev\/lets-go-watch-caravaggio-lacma\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cLet\u2019s GO watch the Caravaggio!\u201d at LACMA"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nPhoto reproduced with permission \u00a9 Maria Rose Crane, 2013<\/em><\/p>\n

The place was packed and I was on my own this time.\u00a0 The first time was a week before when visited the museum with\u00a02013<\/strong>\u00a0MUSE for\u00a0www.talkinggrid.com\u00a0Maria Rose Crane.\u00a0 The plan was to hit the \u201cBodies and Shadows, Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610) and his Legacy,\u201d exhibition for a second time.\u00a0 This time I was going to look longer and deeper.<\/p>\n

\\Ms. Maria Rose Crane did not intend to distract me, on the last visit.\u00a0 She is beautiful, of course.\u00a0 Yet, she is really more than mere beauty… She is also an authentic TALENT! \u00a0Funny, Fun, fashionable, witty, and with-it: Maria Rose Crane is an all out STAR!<\/p>\n

We have so much fun together.\u00a0 She is one of my favorite people to go out a play with.\u00a0 Sometimes we hit the beach, other days we go for lunch.\u00a0 Our first lunch was a legendary one at\u00a0Barney Green Grass<\/a>\u00a0my absolutely favorite lunch place in Los Angeles.\u00a0\u00a0But, that is another story….<\/em><\/p>\n

Finally, we un-glued our selves from our nest-like lobby-bar bliss and faced the reality of why we had made this date at the museum: to SEE the Caravaggio!\u00a0 Indeed, we were not there just to drink, eat, and delight in being on a mini-retreat, a vacation from the mundane.<\/p>\n

The exhibition was expertly mounted, of course. and all the usual suspects (Georges de la Tour, for example) were rounded up and shown as influenced by the painter\u2019s characteristic dark grounds and dramatic lighting, bold figures, in big intense poses.\u00a0 The Caravaggio-esque canvases are like stage sets populated by all-too-human characters in full costume.\u00a0 The feeling of the paintings is urban and urgent.\u00a0 The spaces depicted are jammed with depth and mystery.\u00a0 There is more to the story\u2026 \u00a0one wants to take a closer LOOK!<\/p>\n

The cinematographic quality of the work was the topic of a talk given at LACMA by\u00a0Museum educator and art historian Mary Lenihan.<\/p>\n

Without to much resistance, I succumb to the tendency drift on the lovely surface of Caravaggio for a second pausing at the shore of his personal history and death from a knife-fight wound.\u00a0 This only adds to the sensation of being cast-away, a drift, at sea… ???<\/p>\n

ON VACATION!\u00a0\u00a0LACMA<\/a>\u00a0is a true destination with so much to do that one can get lost, playing in the outdoor sculpture.\u00a0 WE, the Muse, Maria ROSE Crane and I, Frau Kolb, did, along with many others; there were tourists from Tokyo.\u00a0 A set of tall blond stick-thin Nordic models twin sisters posed for pictures with the grateful Japanese tourists.\u00a0 A lady in glittering red high heals…\u00a0 Ah!<\/p>\n

ALL<\/strong>\u00a0climbing around on\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0Chris Burden\u2019s Urban Light\u00a0<\/a>(2008).<\/p>\n

A public monument which works so well as border between the museum as record keeper and the museum as playground for developing imaginations and supporting…<\/p>\n

The city\u2019s spirit.<\/p>\n

Much Love,<\/p>\n

Frau Kolb<\/p>\n

FK<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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