Joshua Bell in L'Enfante

I got a helpful comment on my post yesterday on the Washington Post article about Joshua Bell playing in the DC "subway." It lead me to Saw Lady in NYC, who has a great read on why Mr. Bell's performance was not a show stopper. Saw Lady is a NYC subway musician and musical saw player. She's been around the platform.

Saw Lady's thinking about the art of "busking" has its merits. But, NYC is such a different environment than the, ugh, DC environment. I would challenge Saw Lady to try her musical saw in DC. The experiement could be a very different experience, unrelated to how the musician relates to the mobile audience, as Saw Lady suggests. Better, yet, she should try out her "busker theory" here in Baltimore's underground-above ground-underground. Oh, yeah, Hon.

Something is Really Going On

Galerie Lelong, down on 26th Street, NYC, has just opened this show. Yet another important show of feminist art at a renown gallery. What could be happening! This exhibition, opening on the Ides of March, Role Play: Feminist Art Revisited 1960-1980,investigates women's shifting and constructed identities. Lord knows, we've got 'um. I've had at least three just today.

Then, there is Global Feminisms, organized by Linda Nochlin and Maura Reilly for the Brooklyn Museum. In this show, the curators "contrast seminal feminist artists of the last 40 years and their influence on younger female artists, many of whom do not identify with the term." The show features young women artists and mid-career emerging women artists.

These shows along with Wack! at MoCA in LA, make my heart tap dance. I wonder if there is some kind of crone convergence, emanation polarity, curator infusion plot going on? If you are anywhere near these shows, let me know what you think. Ok? I am waylaid here in Baltimore, "Hon" city, as in, "Hey, Hon, ya wannanother cuppa coffee." The little city that is home to big-hair feminism. Yessss!

Photo:Boryana Rossa (Bulgarian, b. 1972). Celebrating the Next Twinkling (Praznuvane na sledvascia mig), 1999. Single-channel video, Edition of 2, 2 min. 45 sec. Private collection. Photograph courtesy of the artist