Does anyone here remember the exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum of a 20th century painter who was widely admired for his experimentation with materials, and even admired because of the transience of the materials he used? [forgotten the name, of course, it was in the early 90's that Brooklyn did this show] We went to this exhibition with an artist friend who was really taken with the work, most of which had blackened and peeled to a kind of brown mess. It stuck in my head, not for the aesthetic pleasure, but because I had never before encountered the idea that artists would intentionally work with transient materials. Eric Siegel [log in to unmask]