'Visual Glossolalia'

What a wonderful title for an art show.

It's currently up at the Luise Ross Gallery in New York City and will remain there through next week Friday, July 15.

Above and below are works from the show.

Roberta Smith, in her review of the show in last Friday's New York Times, wrote that it is "a seductive buzz of transmuting letters, symbols and equations. It tracks the notion of mediumistic writing or writing in tongues through the work of eight 20th–century and 21st–century mostly American self–thought artists."

Speaking of emergent phenomena: can there be any more spectacular example than the creation of meaning through the arrangement of shapes and colors on paper in the form of language?

The gallery is at 568 Broadway at Prince Street in SoHo; 212-343-2161; free admission.

Get up right now, walk out of your office and make your way to the Luise Ross Gallery and spend a few minutes wandering around; no one will notice your absence and you will be a better person when you return.

Trust me; I'm ....