Staff: We could make better shows...
D: Don’t be facetious. I mean pumping up our attendance figures.
S Better shows?
D: Yes, yes, very amusing …. I get it. We need something that will attract a completely different breed of punter. It’s the Trump thing. I’m thinking ....oh, I don't know... body builders or the craft-a-noon crowd or maybe, just maybe, the God Squad - they usually give us a miss.
S: We could dust off Michelangelo for them.
D: I don’t need another DWM what I’m after is - Michelangelo …the…the… WOMAN.
S: Woman plus God plus Art? .. that’s a challenge. (brightly) How about that singing nun?...
D: A nun? .... did you say nun? ...why didn’t I think of that? … a nun (quietly hums to himself ‘Dominique, inique. inique s'en allait tout simplement. Routier pauvre et chantant’).
S: I was joking…please tell me you’re not thinking of going with a singing nun… aren’t we supposed to be about the visual arts?
D: (ignoring him) Now if we go with my nun idea it’s going to have to really pop. (thinks) …POP! ….. I’ve done it again! We’ll show that Pop Art Nun, what’s–her-name.
S: Pop Art Nun?
D: (on a roll) The Great Pop Artist nun Sister Thingumy. I can see the poster already. “GOD ALMIGHTY…IT’S POP ART! “
S: But she isn’t a Pop artist.
D: Of course she is, everyone says so … PURE POP.
S: But she’s selling God. Warhol wasn’t making work to sell Brillo, Lichtenstein wasn’t shilling comics, Rosenquist wasn’t flogging F111 Bombers on commission.
D: You’re splitting hairs. …. A Pop Art Nun … holy shit…we need to get onto this right away.
And that is what they did.
