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Museum:
The subtitle is Behind the Scenes at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the content is a series of varied, first person, quasi-biographical reports of how the Met works:
1. "We received our art education at home, where we were fortunate enough to be surrounded by Impressionist paintings..."
2. "The building is in pretty good condition considering the amount of use it gets. There have to be at least thirty bathrooms in this place, and in each of those bathrooms you have six or seven toilets, four or five urinals, four or five sinks, plus you have the locker room for the employees, with showers and things like that."
3. "I think it's very important to have art in the world. I am somebody who is not terribly impressed with people. The only thing which is really exceptional about humans is art; apart from that, we are animals."
Who would you most like to be?
Recommended.
Posted by Tyler Cowen on June 29, 2007 at 06:26 AM in Books, The Arts | Permalink
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Hudson Hawk: "Is looking like a constipated warthog a prerequisite for getting a job in the artworld?"
Replace "looking like" with "sounding like" for 3 & to a lesser extent 1.
Posted by: Dave at Jun 29, 2007 9:30:09 AM
#3 is the most insane thing I've read today.
Posted by: Erik at Jun 29, 2007 9:40:03 AM
Most overrated artist? Jackson Pollock. Does anyone else even come close?
Posted by: josh at Jun 29, 2007 10:32:31 AM
Is there something I'm missing on Jackson Pollack's art? It looks like something someone picked up from group fingerpainting day at our local day care center.
Posted by: nelsonal at Jun 29, 2007 11:28:52 AM
Pollock's paintings are good because they are exciting. Lots of energy across the flat canvas plane. (Yes, the 'flat' is a reference to Clement Greenberg.)
Posted by: mschrist at Jun 29, 2007 12:10:40 PM
Well I think I AM #3 already!!
Most over-rated artist: Renoir! hands (and lapdogs with ribbons in their hair) down.
Jackson Pollock is GOD.
Posted by: angus at Jun 29, 2007 1:26:39 PM
Gosh, I haven't heard that stale old "fingerpainting" criticism of Pollock in years! It makes me want to call up my broker and short-sell Stutz Motor Car just for old times' sake.
Posted by: Matthew at Jun 29, 2007 1:30:09 PM
At best, Pollock came up with something mildly clever. Why do we elevate this so far above an artist like say, Quentin Tarantino or even Dave Chapelle, who have done loads of clever things?
Shouldn't the whole idea of automatic painting seem cute in retrospect. Your "unconscious mind" can't paint a picture. Trying to pain unconsciously will not reveal anything about you. Furthermore, why does Clement Greenderb get to make up the aesthetic criteria for an entire medium?
Posted by: josh at Jun 29, 2007 1:44:03 PM
I hope that I am #2. Those are the real inner workings of the Met.
Posted by: Dan Sage at Jun 29, 2007 2:20:41 PM
#1 if for no other reason than it would be nice to have the wealth associated with owning impressionist paintings.
Posted by: fustercluck at Jun 29, 2007 3:03:54 PM
I'm probably #2: it's hard to enjoy art if you Really Gotta Go...
Posted by: Foobarista at Jun 29, 2007 3:52:03 PM
On the face of it, obviously #1; anyone who says otherwise is lying or deluded.
"Dad, I am so glad that we grew up poor. If we had lots of money I would have missed out on the personal growth that came with my struggle to become what I am today."
Posted by: Mike at Jun 29, 2007 3:59:27 PM
Jackson Pollack thought he was GOD, I'm sure, during those rare moments when he was totally in the painting. The rest of the time he thought he was DOG.
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