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[NNadir]

17. Like Sunday Like Rain is...

...not the greatest movie you'll ever see, but it's cute. Easy to watch and a little fun, but not heavy.

That scene sticks in my mind, because I've spent time in front of that painting.

MOMA kind of upsets me. They have Max Beckmann's Departure, and often it's in storage. I've seen it twice; once, happily, they had it at the end of the escalator, you rose to it.

Then, a short while later. Met had a Beckmann retrospective, and they loaned it to the Met.

That painting should never be hidden from the public.

It's huge; like Guernica, it sweeps you; it's not the size of Guernica, but it feels huge.

Beckmann painted it as the Nazis came to power, before going to exile from Germany as a "degenerate artist," to the Netherlands, and was nearly drafted during the Nazi occupation into the Nazi Army.

He was one of the greatest under appreciated artists ever. He died in New York, on his way to a show featuring his work at the Met.

I have always wanted to go to St. Louis, where there is a huge repository of some of his work.