MCA RIP

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Mary Beth and I went over to the Brooks in the afternoon for this talk about MCA by someone who was a professor and four artists who'd been his student. Among the artists on the panel was Sharon and Kong Wee. It was a good talk. Then after that we were able to go check out the actual MCA retrospective exhibit. It was arranged kind of like that panel where there would be a professor together with a group of artists who had been their students and it's all going back decades (leaning more heavily on more recent works as I'm sure those were easier to get a hold of). Though going through the exhibit it was easy to just look at it all as a single collected exhibit and not notice which works were ostensibly connected as such. There was so much good stuff. It makes you wistful all over again that MCA is no more! As we were winding up looking through the exhibit, Kong Wee came up and started talking to us. And then her husband joined (he's also an artist in the exhibit...they met at classes at MCA!). They were very nice and we even got to talk about how we have her works hanging up in our bedroom. We just talked for a good while. Anyway, that was our big fun time for the day.