Its a wrap!
Gates to art
In the words of Karen, honey, two things:
1) Exhibiting your (clean/dirty) laundry is over! Our own bull, maqbool, showed yards and yards of white cloth in an elaborate exhibition post-Babri Masjid communal riots
and
2) You really need to get a life (My favourite line: "The two have spent their entire careers wrapping up monuments...")
and (if I may)
3) The greatest element of their art(ifice) seems to be that they befriended Mayor Bloomberg
posted by yangry star @ 1:26 AM
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I remember seeing Charlie Rose interview Richard Serra (on PBS). Serra, a renowned sculptor, has a very low opinion of non-classical artistic enterprises - he doesn't even think architecture ranks alongside sculpture, painting etc ... so it was interesting to see Rose baiting him all evening. At one point Rose mentions classic furniture and Serra just loses it - "So now you're saying carpentry is art ?" and goes off on a rant.
Pretty extreme, I'll admit, but we need guys like Serra to balance out all the BS out there passing itself off as art.
I am reserving judgement on Christo and Jeanne-Claude though they do sound like one-trick ponies...
I'm not so sure dude. I did see a work of this pair where they wrapped a whole bridge in france in white cloth. The idea itself is simple but the end product definitely had the appeal. Its very much a template enterprise - take a monument/structure and wrap it up etc - but a few of the end products has artistic value!
Space, I finally got your 'Karen' reference and I suspect some others among us haven't figured that one out yet (btw Will and Grace right ?). Abstruse.
See get a life
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