I'll see you next Monday October 30th at the 92nd Street Y at 730 and they have

tickets at their website. She'll be in conversation with Elissa Faragriffin who

actually mentioned during the interview. So Elissa Faragriffin with Cassidy

Hutchinson next Monday at 730 at 92 Y. So there you go. And all this week during

our membership drive we're ending the show each day with a guide to some

can't miss cultural happenings. And today we're talking about visual art. Some

of the museum shows to be sure and catch and I'm joined for this by my fellow

WNYC live radio host who's starting her broadcast day 10 minutes early. Allison

Stewart who has generally hopped across the hall to join us right before her

own show. All of it gets started. Hey Allison. Hey Brian. And you know I had a

brain glitch there. We were first talking about you doing a book's preview

because of the reader that you are but we decided to land on art with you

because of the art observer that you are. So maybe the biggest thing going on

right now is Mene de Gaat at the Met. That is huge. Fortunately we've been able to

talk to the curators of this exhibition. It is an examination of these two

friends who inspired each other and challenged each other. They're just two

years apart born under the same upper middle class Parisian families. They both

served the National Guard, the National Reserve and the Franco-Prussian War.

One curator told us that frames very much the way they commit themselves

politically to their art and to their lives as Parisians as well. And they were

in the common parlance frenemies. And you can see that a little bit in their work.

There's one really dramatic painting where Mene saw a de Gaat painting that

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