Life isn’t all politics (thank God), because there always is art, which may be political, but not blood pressure raising.

The Speed Museum, on the University of Louisville campus, currently has the best exhibit I’ve ever seen there: ” Brilliant Exiles: American Women in Paris, 1900-1939.”

According to the museum, the exhibit:

… (R)ecaptures the experiences of these unorthodox women who found in Paris the freedom to blaze new trails in a variety of fields, including art, literature, design, publishing, music, fashion, journalism, theater, and dance. As foreigners in a cosmopolitan city, they escaped the societal expectations and constraints of both the United States and France. Many used their newfound liberty as an opportunity for self-reinvention and discovery.

The names are well-known: Gertrude Stein, Alice B. Toklas, Josephine Baker, Anais Nin, just to name a few. Just an impressive display of the freedom and encouragement American women received when they left the discouraging male dominated oppression of early 20th century America and were celebrated as artistic and cultural heroines overseas. It’s full of wonderful portraits, inspiring photographs and exquisite sculptures. And there are video displays of life in Paris a century ago as well as artists and dancers in action. The film clip of a frenzied Josephine Baker cutting loose while an agitated violin player tries to keep up with her is worth the price of admission.

The exhibit was organized by D.C.’s National Portrait Gallery (one of my favorite museums in the world) and received federal support from the Smithsonian American Women’s History Initiative Pool.

And now, unfortunately, I have to shift to politics.

You better go see it before Comer Pyle, Andy Barrbarian and other rabies infested MAGA members of Kentucky GOP congressional delegations, start barking like trained seals begging for fish from the illegal-alien hair-plugged South African Space Nazi and his incontinent senile Orange Chia Pet. Not to mention their lapdogs in the state house and senate. It contains everything they hate: Black people, gender defiers and independent women. (Oh, and it celebrates intelligent, cultured people, whom they REALLY despise.)

The exhibit ends June 22.