National Day of Mourning, Coles Hill Plymouth Ma at noon Nov. 24, 2011, near the Massasoit statue overlooking plymouth rock monument.Again this year I, my wife, Mary, her teenage niece Catherine and nephew, Garrett will attend the United Indians of New England memorial ceremony and parade on Thanksgiving Day.
It is a moving and educational counterpoint to the holiday season propaganda that bombards us in postmodern America. Maybe I'll see you there!
Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture. An excellent show that I saw last summer in DC has moved to the Brooklyn Museum. If you have a chance to see when in NY you should. It is a very different take on the standard American idea of portraiture. When I saw it at the National Portrait Gallery it made a striking contrast to the rooms full of Colonial Fathers of America...I'm sure it will stand up well in Brooklyn, too. It includes thishomage to the suicide of the gay poet Hart Crane (he jumped from a ship in the Gulf of Mexico at the age of 32), by Marsden Hartley, as well as works by Warhol, Rauschenburg and Johns among others.
See you next week, john.
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