We have a booth at the Los Angeles Art Show – Wednesday was the gala opening. “Gala” of course means “feedbag central” as there was a lot of free food. They went overboard with trays of bite size food and dessert, wine and snacks, and then whole cubicles and of food – sushi, salads, seafood, more dessert. Food coma time.
The art was divided into two sections – mid-century and older in one section and closer to cotemporary in the other. It was a sales oriented display. If you want a pleasant aesthetic rejoinder with art masterpieces, go to a musuem. This is about show-and-sell only.
We saw some celebrities, most notably Barbra Streisand, who my girlfriend refused to believe that anyone who looked so good so recently in Meet the Fockers could look as frumpy as the lady we saw looking over some pretentious plein-aire painting booth. So I insisted my girlfriend go take a closer look. She walked back and said ”Maybe it is Penny Marshall…” So I looked again, certain it was Babs – it was. My girlfriend was still shaking her head when I pointed out James Brolin had arrived. He put his arm around the aging chunk of love and my significant other expressed that then and only then was she convinced.
Tomorrow is the Art LA Fair at the Santa Monica Civic, I guess I will have a full review of it…
Oh, and may I add that I did NOT see Meet the Fockers in case you are keeping score at home.