Andy Warhol

At the Broad

May 12, 2023

My wife grabs my ear and twists as she says, “This isn’t The Broad.” “It sure is,” I counter.  “Been The Broad as long as it’s been here at LACMA.” “Now it’s just a bunch of initials beginning with B.  The real Broad’s downtown on Grand Avenue a couple of blocks from the Museum of…

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Andy Warhol at The Broad Museum

May 21, 2018

Elvis empties holster standing cowboy wide in boots gun pointed straight eyes aimed too far right. I doubt he ever shoots anything but TVs. Meet Thomas Francis G FBI most wanted for staring uneven and grim so you don’t really want him. He’d shoot anyone who tries to stop him from robbing Chase Manhattan bank…

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Extra Credit

June 21, 2017

I don’t like elementary school much because in books letters jump around or reverse themselves, and my friends read faster and get better grades and that’s okay, but I don’t want to flunk so I go to teachers and say, “Can I do extra credit projects?” “Like what?” “I’ll turn in some drawings and find…

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Art Appraisals

May 24, 2015

To an interviewer who asked Mick Jagger if he had any art, the slender septuagenarian said, well, I just have several paintings people have given me and a few I’ve bought, but it’s definitely not what you’d call a collection, and they (the bad guys) know that so they never bother coming to my place.…

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