Faker Show

Not in a coon's age had the Buffalo Society of Artists, Buffalo, N. Y., enjoyed itself so much as it did last week. In a basement room of the revered Albright Art Gallery were exhibited 40 works of peculiar art contrived by Society members to parody surrealism in particular and loony modernism in general--a "Faker Show" which owed much to the high spirits of versatile, 57-year-old Alexander Oscar Levy, onetime Society president. Parodies of surrealism are imperiled by an inevitable resemblance to surrealism itself. Buffalo objects with a triumphant element of wit included:

Today is Today. Today is Today, Today. Today is. By "Sadi Sadi" (Mr. Levy), a burlesque of sadistic art, showing a woman with her arm cut off and a set of malevolent teeth fixed in the stump.

Creation of Man, by Laszlo Szabo (real name), an arrangement of arcs and triangles dominated by an apocalyptic human eye in the upper left hand corner.

A Slip on a Banana by M. Dorothy Doyle, a realistic wax banana draped delicately with a miniature woman's slip.

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