A day at LACMA...

I went to see the "two berlins" exhibition at LACMA yesterday the 29th. It was a great day.

I picked up Diane Y, my new friend, at her house in Play Del Ray. I love that area, it's so different than most areas in SoCal. She's great with directions, so I didn't need to resort to the GPS. We went to the museum using side streets, down Fairfax to Wilshire. I wore my new shoes to help with fatigue, which didn't work as good as I hoped.

Anyways we went to see the exhibit. It was uneven, I thought, in terms of quality, but it was nevertheless fascinating, and very, very dark. Until...

We turned a corner and smelled a sickly sweet chocolate smell. Turns out it was a work by Dieter Roth "Chocolate Lion Tower" - a "work that gradually transforms from something pleasant into something spoiled." Done in Hamburg from 1969 to 1993. Wood lions held chocolate centers.

Near the work was a painting by "Blinky Palermo" aka Peter Schwarze (later became Peter Heisterkamp after being adopted). This painting was on cotton backed with muslin from the Froehlich Collection in Stuttgart. The painting "Untitled" from 1967 consisted of two colors, a dark blue on top and a light blue on bottom.

Well, I guess the chocolate smell intrigued the little beasties (insects). Diane noticed it first! About two feet up from the bottom of the painting, toward the left in the dark blue part of the painting - about two dozen insect eggs!!!

Hmmm...DON'T THINK THE ARTIST WOULD BE TOO HAPPY ABOUT THAT!!!

We reported it to the guard, who said she already notified management. Guess that's what you get for putting food too close to fabric!!!

It would have been funner had the painting been about eggs...

We met a man from Germany there and talked about how the treaty of  Versailles created the conditions that led to the possibility of a Hitler happening. We told him about the exhibition, he didn't realize it was going on when he actually had an opportunity to see it (thought it started in April). So I'm glad he'll have the opportunity to share this with his kids.

We then ate in an Ethopian restaurant that featured vegan food! It was incredible. Such a nice day!