On Thursday, I wrote about The Embrace, the new bronze memorial sculpture dedicated to Martin Luther King Jr. and his wife, Coretta Scott King. It’s on the Boston Common and, only a week after its debut, seems both loved and reviled. The embrace in question is between husband and wife, which is conjugal to some, carnal to others. I like it. People will love it over time. That sometimes happens with good art.
When I visited the Winter Show in New York afterwards, I couldn’t help but find pairs of things, not always husband and wife, attractive. One plus one is often more than two. And I’m not writing about a single painting. Only one object in my story’s flat, and it’s wallpaper.
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