My wife grabs my ear and twists as she says, \u201cThis isn\u2019t The Broad.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt sure is,\u201d I counter.\u00a0 \u201cBeen The Broad as long as it\u2019s been here at LACMA.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNow it\u2019s just a bunch of initials beginning with B.\u00a0 The real Broad\u2019s downtown on Grand Avenue a couple of blocks from the Museum of Contemporary Art.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cOkay,\u201d I say, \u201cbut you better be right if we drive all the way down there.\u201d<\/p>\n
She shoves her cellphone in my face and says, \u201cHere, look.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThey recommend timed tickets,\u201d I say.<\/p>\n
\u201cQuit whining and let\u2019s go.\u201d<\/p>\n
We get there all right and park within a couple of blocks of the museum and wait less than twenty minutes to get in.<\/p>\n
\u201cI read Eli Broad used to have some heavy arguments when he was on the board at MOCA,\u201d I say.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe had the biggest wallet and most confidence.\u00a0 That\u2019s why a prolific housing developer became a great collector and then built and clarified who\u2019s in charge at The Broad.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Gunslinger, Most Wanted, & Jackie<\/p>\n
Elvis empties holster standing cowboy wide in boots gun pointed straight eyes aimed too far right.\u00a0 I doubt he ever shoots anything but TVs.<\/p>\n
Meet Thomas Francis G FBI most wanted for staring uneven and grim so you don\u2019t really want him.\u00a0 He\u2019ll shoot anyone who tries to stop him from robbing Chase Manhattan bank of three hundred grand in 1955 Queens.\u00a0 Thomas Francis G splits loot with accomplice and escapes with wife and two kids.\u00a0 Latter are soon abandoned.\u00a0 No one knows what happens to couple.<\/p>\n
I love Jackie twenty times she appears somber and beautiful before granitic soldier.\u00a0 Sadly, someone shoots Jackie\u2019s husband.<\/p>\n
A deranged woman shoots me in 1968 and I feel like it\u2019s all happening on TV.<\/p>\n
Notes: Three works by Andy Warhol.<\/p>\n
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Forbidden Scenes<\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I know you think this is a wonderful upper middle-class neighborhood but beware the blossoming girl who wears shorts too short and bites apple while squirting black hose, the serene dog whose barks close master\u2019s ears, the sharp-breasted lady blowing smoke her mother sprays to overcome, and an ominous lady legs in high heels hovering over dapper hat and suit whose arm in drain probes for something she planted.<\/p>\n Notes: Four Forbidden Scenes<\/em> by Mark Tansey.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Angry Bird<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong>You don\u2019t like bird eyes and I hate human eyes so am already enraged when I dive for milk that isn\u2019t milk but plaster almost breaking my beak.\u00a0 Next time my beak\u2019s striking the painter\u2019s nose.<\/p>\n Notes: Angry Because It\u2019s Plaster, Not Milk <\/em>by Ed Ruscha.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" My wife grabs my ear and twists as she says, \u201cThis isn\u2019t The Broad.\u201d \u201cIt sure is,\u201d I counter.\u00a0 \u201cBeen The Broad as long as it\u2019s been here at LACMA.\u201d \u201cNow it\u2019s just a bunch of initials beginning with B.\u00a0 The real Broad\u2019s downtown on Grand Avenue a couple of blocks from the Museum of…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1328,1747,1745,329,2049],"tags":[],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"yoast_head":"\n