Good morning, all! I'm listening to a pirated CD of my 2002 Rodgers show, DEAREST ENEMY, and wishing my Dear Friend BK was still recording so I could beg him to record this score.
Speaking of BK, I finished WRITER'S BLOCK last nigh. I'm not ready to post any review, since I'm still mulling over it, but it is such fun.
Today we're talking 'bout deviled crabs. Spoo, I meant paintings. I, too, am a fan of Turner's, but I've always been crazy for the baroque pastry-school-of-painting-and-eroticism in 18th Century France, particularly Boucher and Fragonard, and I think Chardin's 18th Century realism is wonderful, too. I think John Singer Sargent is my favorite American painter, and in the new 21st Century, I prefer commercial art to "serious" art." I'd rather have a good children's book illustration or a Broadway poster (not the current crop!) than a contemporary paining. Well, I might not turn down a Hockney.
My favorite museum in New York is the Frick. Beautiful home, beautiful collection. I'm also crazy about the Morgan Library, but mostly for its great Gilbert & Sullivan collection of music, art, and ephemera.