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<\/span>Whiting Tennis<\/a> (Link to artist talking):<\/p>\nI value both Hirst and Tennis, but if I could pick one of these objects to live with, it would be Tennis’ a thousand times over, price points be damned. <\/p>\n Tennis is in Supramundane<\/i> at Ambach & Rice<\/a> through the weekend. He’s also in Dimension Invention<\/i><\/a> at the Kirkland Arts Center through June 3, which I’m going to see later today. He is represented in Seattle by Greg Kucera <\/a>.In flusher days, now demised, Kucera would never have let him appear at another local gallery, especially with his best work to date. <\/p>\n Nothing illustrates the vast plurality of contemporary art more than the fact that these two medicine cabinets exist at the same time. Damien Hirst: Whiting Tennis (Link to artist talking): Detail:Hirst is cool, Tennis feverish. Hirst’s form is armored, Tennis’ vulnerable. Tennis’ assemblage of his models for sculptures isn’t intended a medicine chest, which is […]<\/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-613","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\/613","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=613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/span>
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Hirst is cool, Tennis feverish. Hirst’s form is armored, Tennis’ vulnerable. Tennis’ assemblage of his models for sculptures isn’t intended a medicine chest, which is where the comparison breaks down. His elegant gray box is more like a church. Like Robyn O’Neil’s (here<\/a>), his overal effect is silent, engaging a private implosion. <\/p>\n