Darlings, Art Who???????????????

Girls, remember that wonderful scene in "Splendor In The Grass" between Barbara Loden and Pat Hingle? She played trampy Ginny Stamper, who had just been brought back to her small Kansas town after running wild in the big city, where she had to have a.....gasp!.......abortion. She is having breakfast the next morning, and telling her family that she "wants to go to Chicago,live with aunt Blossom, and study art." To which her father retorts, "Art who?????"

Well, darlings, that is how I felt last night. While I was being escorted through MOMA by a very handsome and charming gentleman, we happened upon what looked like a movie being shot, what with all the lights, filters, and people hovering around the stage periphery like crowds at Lourdes. Sweeties, it looked like an outtake from "The Song of Bernadette," except where was Jennifer Jones?????

Everyone was staring at this woman in a period white gown, hair pulled back in a pony tail, seated ramrod straight, seemingly catatonic, except for little surreptitious movements which she would make, and the audience seemed to be hanging on this as avidly as if watching the "Psycho" shower scene. Lambs, we just did not have the time or the patience to fool with this, but as we taripsed through the museum, we noted that at some point the woman was joined by a man seated across from her a good distance, whose movements were also setting the crowd on edge. I mean, darlings, as Pat Hingle said, "Art who?" It just makes you wonder, sweeethearts.

Now this Thursday we have art of a very high grade, when Chelsea Classics, hosted by the great Hedda Lettuce, is again presenting the Joan Crawford classic, "Strait Jacket," which raises art to a level that has to be believed, and as will soon be revealed, is a brilliant meditation on the maintenance of one's social class distinctions in this society. Girls, the only thing distinctive last night about that piece at MOMA was the foolish way the crowd was hagning on.

Don't you fall for the crowd, dolls, keep moving!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!