Expect the Unexpected
August 24, 2013
Sometimes people don’t do what we expect them to do, but rather, they do the unexpected. This observation was driven home to me the other day when my book club, after having read a novel about art forgery, decided that the best place to conduct our “after the reading” discussion was at the Barnes Museum in Philadelphia.
The museum is unique in that Barnes integrated his collection in “ensembles” of mixed media so it was no surprise to see a 20th -century Picasso positioned next to a…