{"id":585,"date":"2009-05-22T11:30:38","date_gmt":"2009-05-22T18:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp\/2009\/05\/friday_links_3\/"},"modified":"2009-05-22T11:30:38","modified_gmt":"2009-05-22T18:30:38","slug":"friday_links_3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/2009\/05\/friday_links_3.html","title":{"rendered":"Friday links"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jonathan Jones<\/b> at the Guardian thinks the public can’t be trusted to have anything to say about public art, here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Public art is not a matter for the majority – people should simply cough up and stand back as talented artists indulge themselves.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

How very monarchist of him. The problem with public art is not the public. The public is part of the challenge. The problem is lazy-ass, timid arts administrators who don’t bother to engage the communities who will interact with the art on a daily basis. Too many artists in the public realm are also timid. They go for the safe and bland. <\/p>\n

All this is the public’s problem? Offer good art and sell it to those who are going to see it regularly as they go about their business. Critics who have nothing but contempt for public art are also the problem. They need to be using different criteria to evaluate what Lawrence Alloway called “focal points for an undifferentiated audience.” Instead, they bring only their studio art gasbag of tricks.  <\/p>\n

What the well-dressed bank robber will wear<\/b>: (Freddie Robbins<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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Culture Grrl<\/b> (Lee Rosenbaum) blames the victim, here<\/a>, in a post about the beleaguered Rose Museum and heroic director, Michael Rush, not heroic to CG, however, who rewrites history to knock him.
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Michael Rush, whose directorship at the museum ends June 30, told (Geoff) Edgers:<\/p>\n

The Rose, as we have known it, is closing…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

…or at least the Rose as HE has known it is finished. My hope that a new director, arriving in Watham without the baggage of an acrimonious relationship with the administration, will find a way to preserve the Rose’s collection and its status as a full-functioning museum, while making a more effective effort to communicate its necessity and importance to Brandeis officials, the broader university community and the general public.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Catching up<\/b>: Excellent Aldrich director Harry Philbrick interview last Februrary with Robert Lazzarini<\/a> in his New York City studio here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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HP: Do you own a gun?
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RL: Well, I own that gun [the one reproduced in the artwork] the original, simply because that’s my process, and I had to go through an FBI check and all that stuff, but I don’t shoot, and it’s not that I don’t want to. I’ve been to a firing range in the city because one of my assistants was a gunsmith, and he worked at a firing range so I’d go there and shoot there. But it’s really loud, even with ear protection on you’re like “wow, that’s loud!”
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HP: So not your thing.
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RL: I prefer stabbing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I love Photo Shop:<\/b> Erik Johannsson<\/a>, Road Pull<\/i><\/p>\n

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