A New Madonna for Our City of Angels

So, ladies and gentlemen, if you, like me, have been procrastinating
on filing your taxes until the very last moment, then today – April 15
– is your Atonement Day. Why this Christian reference? Probably it has
something to do with the deep impression left on me by the spectacular
works by Anselm Kiefer and their religious symbology that I talked
about last week. Or, maybe I was swayed by the purity and beauty of the
Madonna, not the one on the cover of Vanity Fair, but the 500 year-old
vision of her that I saw last Sunday...