미술관에서 그림 이야기를 하는 게 가식적이고 허영스럽다는 얘기를 들으니 <맨하탄>의 대사들이 생각났다. 우디 앨런과 다이안 키튼이 미술관에서 처음 만나 나누는 대화다.

- Hello.
- Hi. We were downstairs.
We saw the photography exhibition.
                  
- Absolutely incredible.
- It's really good.
                  
- Really? The photographs downstairs?
- Yes.

- Great. Absolutely great. Did you?
- No, I really felt it was very derivative.  To me it looked like it was straight out of Diane Arbus, but it had none of the wit.
                
- Well, we didn't like it as much as the Plexiglas sculpture.
- You liked the Plexiglas?

- You didn't like the Plexiglas either?
- Ah, that's interesting. Nah, no. It was a lot better than that... that steel cube. Did you see it?

- Oh, yeah. That was the worst.
- Now that was brilliant to me.

- The cube was brilliant?
- Yes. To me it was very textural. You know what I mean? It was perfectly integrated and it had a... a marvellous kind of negative capability. The rest of the stuff was bullshit.

- You wanna see the Sol Lewitt?
- Sure. That'd be fun.

- You wanna see that? He opens at the Modern soon. I was gonna do a piece on Sol for Insights. Do you know that magazine? It's a little magazine. They're such schmucks up there. Really mired in Thirties radicalism.

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