Art Notes

I don’t know much about art, but I know what I like. So it was with trepidation that I went with Cath to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA). There were some truly horrendous “installations” there, but the Picasso exhibit was a wonderful insight into his influences on other artists. Pop art was well represented with Roy Liechtenstein and Andy Warhol pieces. I also discovered Georgia O’Keeffe and Stuart Davis for the first time.

Lots more art in the Getty Museum which is near Bel Aire and overlooks smoggy LA. It houses one of the finest art collections in the world; Van Gogh, Degas and other masterpieces were on display, all housed in a fantastic modern building which only someone with Getty’s spare cash could have come up with.

Then there was the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) in downtown LA. Some interesting and unusual pieces, but some of it was utter tosh. Toothpicks, q-tips, wire and rope do not make art. Sorry folks.