{"id":1727,"date":"2010-05-15T23:15:23","date_gmt":"2010-05-16T06:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp\/2010\/05\/chris_burden_to_nancy_rubin_\/"},"modified":"2010-05-15T23:15:23","modified_gmt":"2010-05-16T06:15:23","slug":"chris_burden_to_nancy_rubin_","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/2010\/05\/chris_burden_to_nancy_rubin_.html","title":{"rendered":"Nancy Rubins &#8211; boats as building jewelry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 1991, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chris_Burden\">Chris Burden<\/a> wanted to hang a fishing boat off the side of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seattleartmuseum.org\/\">Seattle Art Museum<\/a>, designed by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Robert_Venturi\">Robert Venturi<\/a>. Over my dead body, said Venturi. The architect is still alive. It didn&#8217;t happen.<\/p>\n<p>Fifteen years later, the idea reappeared in the work of his wife, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gagosian.com\/artists\/nancy-rubins\/\">Nancy Rubins<\/a>. He was thinking of something rough and working class &#8211; roots music for a city with a working waterfront. For another waterfront town, she delivered a flamboyant tiara. <\/p>\n<p><i>Pleasure Point, 2006, nautical vessels, stainless steel, stainless steel wire. Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego Photo by Pablo Mason.<\/i> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcasd.org\/exhibitions\/604\/pleasure-point\">Via<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"nancyrubinspleasure.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/nancyrubinspleasure.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0pt auto 20px;\" height=\"311\" width=\"465\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1991, Chris Burden wanted to hang a fishing boat off the side of the Seattle Art Museum, designed by Robert Venturi. Over my dead body, said Venturi. The architect is still alive. It didn&#8217;t happen. Fifteen years later, the idea reappeared in the work of his wife, Nancy Rubins. He was thinking of something [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1727","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}