WEEKEND UPDATE
by Walter Robinson


My favorite show of the day, and I almost missed it -- standing there on aching feet in the drizzle, looking in through the big plate glass windows of 303 gallery at precisely 6 p.m., it seemed that I had gotten my dates mixed up (god knows that happens frequently enough) -- and that there was no opening after all. The gallery was empty, not only of visitors but of any art, save for a blue balloon sitting on the floor, like some kind of mistake.

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