Seen At The Armory Show

Finally, vindication!

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[Becks]

Oh! And I should probably give the artist credit - it's by Donald Urquhart. Yes, a man!

[Becks]

...but his works were all done from the perspective of women. So this work felt like it was definitely acknowledging that this is something done to women, not to both sexes.

[John Tingley]

I remember that discussion we had at Unfogged about being asked to smile, and I remember asking whether it should change how I thought about Nat King Cole's beautiful song of that title. As I know the Coles family, it is a bit personal to me. So just this week I was having lunch with my wife and asked her.

"John, Nat's voice on the radio is that of a kind friend who knows you, who knows your heart is breaking, but that you will be ok. It's an artifact of the intimacy that he well understood radio and records to give, so that he, a 1950's black man, could come into little shacks in little Illinois river towns and talk to the white woman at the kitchen sink. See the difference?"