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At the Art Museum
What a satisfying way To spend a sun-dappled New Year's afternoon, Just you and I, Janie, Almost by ourselves, in a quiet art museum, Taking in the "Action/Abstraction" exhibit Highlighting Pollock and de Kooning, Whom Clement Greenberg and Harold Rosenberg Sold to a very skeptical Cold War America — Those indispensable critics at that controversial time, When a new sensibility was canceling all art before it.
While the rest of the city sleeps, You and I, Janie, Appropriate the open space, the undefiled silence, Gazing at canvases of frenetic desperation, Reading their dramatically informative labels, Contemplating the accepted wisdom Distinguishing the representational from the abstract, Wondering if the harmony we're sharing, today, Signals a new movement, a new direction, a new reality Capable of negating the discord that's shadowed our past.
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