Friday, March 6, 2026

Art Junky - check


 










Above: Reflection at Dallas Museum of Art

Laumeier Sculpture Park, Sunset Hills, MO

Saint Louis Art Museum - w/ Meg and Parker, Tom Shaughnessy, Chris and Mel Galloway, Debbie Rudolf, Susan J, Perry D., Greg

Cleveland Museum of Art - Picasso on Paper, Degas Laundresses, Manat and Moresot w/ Janie, Dan,  

Museum of Modern Art MoMA w Dave Drimer

Storm Kiug 500 acres in NY Hudson Valley w Ben, Allison, James

The Grounds - NJ w/ Ben Allison James

Chicago Art Institute with Dave and Linda Shogren

Nelson Atkins Museum in KC with Dave Linda Shogren and tentatively with Tom Shaughnessy

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - w/ Denise deVille

Chrystal Bridges - Bentonville, AR w Greg and Laumeier Docents (2012)

Boston Museum of Fine Arts (Bat Mitzvah - Sally)

Dali Museum - Clearwater

Tampa Art Museum

Florida Museum of Photography - Ybor City and before relo

Columbus Museum of Art - Janie and JV/Lane/Coleen

Ringling Museum of Art Sarasota

The Metropolitan

The Whitney

The Guggenheim

The Frick























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Thursday, January 29, 2026

LSM Yahrzeit 4 years

 














Transparency, awareness and self-reflection;

As if to say - I can achieve perfection;

In the midst of loss, pain, and dread;

No regrets. I know much was left unsaid.

Squall lines inevitable and straight ahead.

 

Navigating with a will to steer;

Mitigation of fear from those near and dear;

Every life has its share of woes;

Pray for guidance and steady as it goes;

Until it’s you - no-one knows.

 

Living in the here and now;

We got here some way, somehow.

Change is a constant state of things; 

Life and the circumstance it brings;

You are gone but I know you’re on angel wings.

 

Memories abound;

Of when you were around.

You were always kind;

Among us, you still remind;

To make this life the best we can find. 

 








2/3/1959 - 66 years ago today, the music died.
A plane crash in an Iowa cornfield.
Three legends gone in an instant.
BUDDY HOLLY – 22 years old
RITCHIE VALENS – 17 years old
THE BIG BOPPER – 28 years old
They were on the Winter Dance Party tour.
Small-town venues across the frozen Midwest.
The tour bus kept breaking down — no heat, musicians getting sick.
In Clear Lake, Iowa, Buddy Holly chartered a small plane to skip the long, freezing bus ride to the next show.
Three seats.
Four people wanted them.
Who were they?
BUDDY HOLLY
“Peggy Sue”
“That’ll Be the Day”
Rock and roll pioneer
Wore those iconic black glasses
Influenced The Beatles, Bob Dylan and The Rolling Stones
Passed away at 22
RITCHIE VALENS
“La Bamba”
“Donna”
First Latino rock star
Eight months of fame, then gone
Passed away at 17
THE BIG BOPPER
“Chantilly Lace”
Big personality, infectious energy
DJ turned rock star
Had the flu and asked for the seat so he could rest
Passed away at 28
February 3, 1959.
The headlines called it: “The Day the Music Died.”
But the music didn’t really die that day.
It changed.
The innocence of early rock and roll faded.
The Beatles would rise in a few years.
Bob Dylan would change everything.
Rock would grow darker and more complex.
But we lost what could have been.
In 1971, Don McLean wrote a song about this night.
He never explained all the lyrics, but the refrain became immortal:
A long, long time ago, I can still remember how that music used to make me smile…



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