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			| Diane_Keaton | 01-17-2006 04:28 PM |  
 Dream Interpretation
 
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		| Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
 
 I believe that large scale public installations help make art accessable to more people, make art something that can be enjoyed or rejected by everyone.  I believe that your disdainful opinion of the Cristo is evidence of that interaction.
 
 I believe that support needs to go to people like William Pope L, Andrea Zittel, The Art Guys, and anyone else who does installations.
 
 |   I get a little wary when I see those lofty ideals expressed as the purpose of these projects `cause they're usually the lofty ideals of white people.  I'm not sure the exhibits are having the "cultural" effect some intend. With "The Gates" (the only one I have poked fun at) I heard a lot of grandiose hoopla that bordered on snobbery and patronizing.  These exhibits are usually way cool, but  nobody likes to hear artists (or, more typically, their supporters) wax poetic about bringing art to "the little people."  To be sure, I think some of these things are super cool (except those goddamn cows!) but the average working man is not going to pop wood over some femmy guy named Christo who wraps shit in foil. On the other hand, a skyscraper-sized puppet show like the one in "Being John Malkovich" might have been enjoyed by a much sizier chunk of the population. [sarcasm] Especially if, like all those lovely new kids movies with talking animals, you had the requisite jive-talking puppet thrown in there. [/sarcasm] |