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I saw In Wonderland: The Surrealist Adventures of Women Artists in Mexico and the United States at LACMA today, and wow.

I got to see Leonora Carrington's self-portrait, one of my favorite paintings. Plus great work by Frida Kahlo, Remedios Varo, Dorothea Tanning, Kay Sage, etc., etc., and a bunch of artists I'd never heard of but clearly need to know more about. (Helen Lundeburg! Gertrude Abercrombie! Rosa Rolanda!)

Some other images from the exhibit are here.

My vacation week is flying by. I've been noveling (and poeming), reading The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, watching wonderful Ryan's Hope (1975) reruns on SOAPnet, feeding the Garage Kitty (she's been a bit finicky lately--I think the cold weather has intermittently interfered with her ability to smell food), etc. Yesterday I saw the Eva Hesse paintings exhibit at the Hammer, which I was glad to get to before it closes.

Last night HBO showed the 1976 remake of Dark Victory, starring Elizabeth Montgomery and Anthony Hopkins--a TV movie I adored as a pre-teen and which I wish were on DVD (or even on YouTube). I think it may have been the first thing I ever saw Hopkins in (or was it Magic?), though I was of course already a massive Montgomery fan.

Today I went to Whole Foods to get caviar and other goodies for my traditional new-year's-eve-with-DVDs celebration. I haven't decided yet what I'm gonna watch, though...