{"id":364,"date":"2009-03-25T22:29:09","date_gmt":"2009-03-26T05:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp\/2009\/03\/earth_to_seattle_arts_writers\/"},"modified":"2009-03-25T22:29:09","modified_gmt":"2009-03-26T05:29:09","slug":"earth_to_seattle_arts_writers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/2009\/03\/earth_to_seattle_arts_writers.html","title":{"rendered":"Earth to Seattle arts writers: Hello? Anybody home?"},"content":{"rendered":"

EMP<\/a> hiring Christina Orr-Cahall as its next director did not go unnoticed by Seattle press: The Seattle Times published an interview earlier in the week (here<\/a>), and the online-only Seattle PI managed a brief note, as did the Stranger. <\/p>\n

Today, however, Tyler Green pointed out<\/a> that Orr-Cahall was director of the Corcoran Gallery of Art in 1989 and canceled the Robert Mapplethorpe show in response to outrage from Congress, led by Jesse Helms. <\/p>\n

It was absolutely the wrong thing to do. She resigned in response to the chaos caused by her decision. (New York Times story here<\/a>.) As Green noted, <\/p>\n

The Corcoran — and in some ways the art world — still hasn’t recovered.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Orr-Cahall appears to have been a big success as director of the Norton Museum of Art for the last 19 years. (Story here<\/a>.) Surely her life’s work cannot be defined by one false move. <\/p>\n

But nobody in Seattle appears to have asked her about it. The Seattle Times’ reporter quoted her saying she was interested in the “whole visionary side” of museums and wanted to – wait for it – “push boundaries.”<\/p>\n

“I knew I remembered something attached to her name,” wrote Jen Graves<\/a>, acknowledging Green’s post. Me too. I glanced at the PI story and thought, hmmm. Where have I heard that name before? Neither of us sees EMP as our particular concern. We don’t cover it. Isn’t that somebody else’s job? Somebody, anybody? <\/p>\n

The mark of tiny town journalism is, when something worth digging into happens, outsiders do it or it doesn’t get done. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

EMP hiring Christina Orr-Cahall as its next director did not go unnoticed by Seattle press: The Seattle Times published an interview earlier in the week (here), and the online-only Seattle PI managed a brief note, as did the Stranger. Today, however, Tyler Green pointed out that Orr-Cahall was director of the Corcoran Gallery of Art […]<\/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-364","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\/364","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=364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}