As part of our Hinterlands Tour, We Four Queens took in the show at the Oakville galleries yesterday.
Wall to wall Warhols indeed. Three small rooms and a stairwell crammed with prints: Hammers and sickles reduced to abstract shapes, a Campbell's soup can, a Black Lenin, most of the Ten Portraits of Jews in the Twentieth Century ( 1980 ) and the livelier and more graphically interesting Ladies and Gentlemen ( 1975 ) black drag queen series, a Mao, the Torso ( a willy, though not a frisky one ), assorted panda bears, elephants, Chanel bottles, you name it. And some polaroids of little Joe. Quite the show from quite the gay collector. And he's quite the benefactor too, to the renovated 519 Church Street in particular.
Lovely gardens. A bright but overcast day without shadows, making all the flowers look like Warhol prints. Nice location for a gallery, next to the lake.
Back in town, a Darkstar sighting as we drove along Church Street. Then on to see the Mao that one of us - not I - has in his collection. I prefer it to Bachir's - this is a more queenly Great Helmsman, with purple eye liner and Joan Crawford lipstick.
