Went to go hear a talk about integrating art into
the Bloomingdale Trail (never
606!) and it was so amorphous and imprecise it made me angry. Art should be exploratory, but it needs a starting point, and that point—when you've received the public trust to curate something in a grand manner that stretches over miles and miles—shouldn't be based on "so I'm depending on you to tell me what
you want" in front of a room of people with no vision. It reeks of a preemptive attempt to dodge blame so that when our dear curator unveils something uninspired and pedestrian the onus can be said to have fallen on a public that never voiced their desire when no true framework for that desire was ever supplied outside of "innovative use of public space" and "living art that will develop along with the environment around that" sans a single specific example.
Art requires vision, and what I heard tonight was how first year college students talk
around vision instead of expanding upon it.
2 comments:
I liked this blog post so much that I read it to my husband, who is a museum curator and all too used to this sort of thing. Kudos! Allison A.
Thanks Allison! :)
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