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Basquiat Case One man’s trash is another man’s day trip. MAR K McWATE R S
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rt, like beauty, is within the eye of the beholder. I personally believe there’s nothing more beautiful then the one be-holding my beverage. So spending a beautiful spring day at a museum? Indoors? No, thank you. I’d rather pluck gray hair from my mustache. And yet, my interest in art was piqued when I
read about an exhibit that might be full of fakes. The temptation to live my own version of Made You Look proved too compelling. Which is how I found myself making the trek—and as anyone who has driven on I-4 during Spring Break knows, it is a trek—to visit Heroes & Monsters at the Orlando Museum of Art.
I huffed and puffed, of course, but truth be told, I was intrigued. This one tank trip (aren’t they all at nearly $5 a gallon? harumph) down memory lane was actually pretty fun for a history buff like me. My partner, Frances Hight, and I started with
pre-Colombian sculpture of the ancients who once inhabited the Americas. (I’m not that old, but there are days where I feel like crumbling marble.) From there we set the dial on our flux capacitor for Europe in the 16th century and visited awhile with Rubens, Rembrandt and friends. Louis Dewis ushered us into the twentieth
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