Fiction and Commentary By Rolf Rykken

What you can hear as a Museum Assistant guarding artwork The Phillips Collection galleries:

During the 2009 exhibit, “Paint Made Flesh,” a young teen girl viewing with her parents Lucian Freud’s 1991-92 oil painting of a fat, bald, naked man, says  ”Oh, look Dad. A painting of you,” to which the father responds, “Naw, I’m not bald.”

Lucian Freud, “Naked Man, Back View,” 1991-92, Metropolitan Museum of Art