The recent article in the Newtown Bee by Stephen May on the 1913 Armory Show (seen in New York, Chicago and Boston) provides a very worthy overview to say the least. May has correctly presented this famous show as a cultural event which shook the nation’s art-loving crowd. Furthermore, he has pointed out that American art would never be the same because the exhibition included Europe’s most avant-garde art, especially Cubism. Of course the show was highlighted by Duchamp’s unprecedented painting which was the brunt of rude critics and observers in general. Yet, in spite of the hullabaloo created over the 1913 Armory Show, its influence was in fact the most indelible known to this nation’s cultural community until the advent of the next great movement, abstract expressionism. I should point out however that many of those American artists who pursued the cutting edge in their art have been forgotten in the past century when our ancestors were shocked by the art being made in Europe. To know about the armory show is to love American art.