It felt like passing by a friend at a party, pausing only long enough to say you’d circle back soon.
I’d taken a taken a cheap flight from Washington, D.C., to see the “Remedios Varo: Science Fictions” show at the Art Institute of Chicago. The show included many paintings still held in private collections. So it was a rare chance to examine up close the detailed surrealist worlds created by Varo (1908–1963), a Spanish exile who spent most of the last two decades of her life in Mexico. I’ll post an essay about that show if I can get permission to include images of the paintings.