August 7, 2005

Today [Penelope](http://peneloper.com) and I walked up the hill a few blocks to check out the [Basquiat](http://www.basquiatonline.org/) exhibit at [MOCA](http://www.moca.org). The collection is vast and supposedly the largest ever in one place. We very much enjoyed the vivid and tumultuous paintings of the young deceased artist, our favorites of the bunch being Grillo, Now's the Time (a Charlie Parker record) and the various Gray's anatomy inspired paintings, which were obviously inspired by the thick anatomy tome (even though that bit of information was unknown to us). This [continues after the fold](http://eecue.com/log_archive/eecue-log-394-A_Lovely_Day_in_Downtown_LA.html)...