Wow! What a night! I had the great opportunity to meet and listen to a contemporary master artist tonight. Eric Fischl gave a lecture at the Smithsonian Museum of American Art in DC. The lecture was followed by a meet and greet and an hors d'oeuvre reception in the atrium. It was a great experience, made even greater by being able to attend it with a wonderful art teacher friend of mine. I was able to talk with Mr. Fischl for probably about 20 minutes. This kind of access doesn't come around very often. We talked painting, teaching, a whole host of things. And it was especially fitting that my art teacher friend was able to speak with him, because Fischl gave a lecture to his class during grad school almost 30 years ago! He was very kind and down to earth. The evening was topped off by meeting a person who works in art fraud across the world. They're trying to get a system up and running that would attach DNA to the back of modern works in order to track their provenance to curb fraud/forgeries. The DNA could be scanned using a smartphone. What a neat and novel idea!
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