{"id":1914,"date":"2010-09-16T11:08:22","date_gmt":"2010-09-16T18:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp\/2010\/09\/death_art_-_the_seattle_edge\/"},"modified":"2010-09-16T11:08:22","modified_gmt":"2010-09-16T18:08:22","slug":"death_art_-_the_seattle_edge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/2010\/09\/death_art_-_the_seattle_edge.html","title":{"rendered":"Death &#038; Art &#8211; the Seattle edge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The admirable Douglas Britt at the Houston Chronicle <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.chron.com\/socialclimbing\/2010\/09\/houston_visionary_mounts_an_art_exhibit_in_a.html\">reports on a one-night show<\/a> in a funeral home. What will these &#8220;visionary&#8221; Houston artists think of next?<\/p>\n<p>Seattle&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.antiquesatoz.com\/artatoz\/krafft\/\">Charles Krafft<\/a> had a show in a funeral home in 2003, and not, as in Houston, by hanging portraits on the wall. Krafft&#8217;s art in a dead house was made from the dead: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p> He&#8217;s making urns from human ashes, following a formula Josiah Spode invented in 1797, producing fine English china glaze by adding calcinated cow bone to the company&#8217;s clay mixture. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seattlepi.com\/visualart\/126390_krafftq.html\">more<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As Larry Reid likes to say, &#8220;Ashes to ashes, dust to Delft.&#8221; Then there&#8217;s Seattle&#8217;s Greg Lundgren, who has turned art &amp; death<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seattlepi.com\/visualart\/371421_boutiquedeath19.html\"> into a business<\/a>. Excellent Brendan Kiley story on Lundgren <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestranger.com\/seattle\/Content?oid=620532\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, when it comes to turning out the living for a show in a funeral parlor, Houston has Seattle beat. I don&#8217;t remember seeing any major collectors or curators at the opening of Krafft&#8217;s show at Mount Pleasant Cemetery. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The admirable Douglas Britt at the Houston Chronicle reports on a one-night show in a funeral home. What will these &#8220;visionary&#8221; Houston artists think of next? Seattle&#8217;s Charles Krafft had a show in a funeral home in 2003, and not, as in Houston, by hanging portraits on the wall. Krafft&#8217;s art in a dead house [&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-1914","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\/1914","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=1914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1914\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}