Potentially Most Dismissible Saturday

I must say, I'm not sure if I used the word dismissible right, but in any case, it's about last Saturday.

The entire borough of Brooklyn and in-the-know Manhattanites headed to First Saturday at our lovely Brooklyn Museum. As the Takashi Murakami show were to kick off, you can imagine how many people were to rush over Eastern Parkway.

It was packed. The line for the exhibition was longer than the much-hyped Basquiat show a few years back. And, may I emphasize the fact that even though the beauty of First Saturdays lay in the all-night free entrance (the museum's open till 11PM), somehow, somewhere, they decided they can charge regular (which is already $2 more than the normal $8) admission fee??

I really don't know what the big deal with this was. The show's already done showed (pun intended) in Los Angeles. Plus the unnecessarily glitzy reception with an "exclusive" Kanye West performance (hasn't he been appearing at too many of these to be "exclusive" already?) happened already on Thursday last week.

The DJ set by Muro was on the stuffy first floor next to the gift shop, when it's usually held upstairs. The sound system? Aweful. Because of the large totem pole-esque pieces from the Americas that were not to be removed from the room, the speakers weren't placed most efficiently. The DJ flew in all the way from Japan, and this is what he gets. What.