I FINALLY MADE IT
In a few months time I will be in San Francisco before visiting the canyons. One of the highlights of this visit was to discover the Museum of Modern Art, only to be told by my traveling companions that it is closed until 2016. So the American Icon exhibition in Paris, would I hope satisfy my curiosity as it is part of the Doris and Donald Fischer collection.You may not have heard of this couple but you certainly have heard of GAP (Jeans) which they founded in 1969. Their knowledge of art was virtually non existent when they started a collection of fourteen of the most prominent American artists of the 20th century. Most of the artists I knew and as is always the case, some I like, some I don’t. The name Philip Guston did not ring a bell, nor Brice Marden or Richard Diebenkorn. My energy seemed to return as I went into the exhibition - and found it empty. Alexander Calder floats from the ceiling at the entrance, throwing shadows above and around. A soothing beginning which cannot