#25 Playing with friends

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Courtesy of National Hispanic Cultural Center

Detail of Entre palmas / Amidst Palms Flora Fong, 1949, Camagüey, Cuba. 2009. Mixed media on canvas 150 x 200 cm.

We all know how amazing NHCC is—beautiful exhibits, fabulous programming, breathtaking premises. And now, if it didn't before, the whole world knows, too. Or at least, the Frommer's-reading world.

In a little feature called "9 Must-See Museum Exhibits Around The World," NHCC is listed among the internationally-renowned likes of the Tate (London) and the Pompidou (Paris). Not bad, Burque. Not bad at all.

Now. Let's get NMSO on some lists* with the New York Philharmonic and New Mexico Ballet Co noted alongside the Russian National Ballet, and we'll be all set.

* I could make these lists. And I've thought about it. But maybe it would be more thrilling for ABQ if someone outside of the city were to recognize our treasure chest o' glorious cultural riches. Who do you know at the Washington Post? Get on it!

10. I read most every one I come across.

9. They never have me on them. I have not made any lists. Neither have you, probably. We are nothing if we’re not listed. I’m not even listed in the phone book.

8. Writers are fierce know-it-alls who want their list to be individualized but not too out of step with what other writers are writing. Safety is dull.

7. Will someone please make a list of the worst Top 10 lists?

6. Why do we chunk out time this way anyway? 10 years are just 10 years. I want to see a list of the best movies of the last 17 years.

5. Lists tell what you already know and talk about people who’ve already saturated a layer of your brain. Where’s the list of stuff I don’t know about?

4. Michael Jackson will be on every list. Even unrelated lists. Like, “Top 10 Shapes Most Often Spotted in Hamburger Patties” will have MJ as No. 1.

3. So will Tiger Woods.

2. So will Obama.

1. Lists are reductive.

• I find that top ten lists (Nick Brown) [ Tue Dec 22 2009 2:54 PM ]
  
• I always get stuck.. (sloppy) [ Tue Dec 22 2009 4:17 PM ]
  
• yeah, it makes me feel (Nick Brown) [ Tue Dec 22 2009 8:27 PM ]