{"id":622,"date":"2009-06-01T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-01T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp\/2009\/06\/monday_links_are_art_students\/"},"modified":"2009-06-01T04:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-01T11:00:00","slug":"monday_links_are_art_students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/2009\/06\/monday_links_are_art_students.html","title":{"rendered":"Monday links (Are art students stupid?)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oh, the horror.<\/b> Judith H. Dobrzynski on her AJ blog, Real Clear Arts<\/i>, lamented the following:  Who’s Looking at Paintings? Not, Apparently, Even Art Students<\/i>.<\/a><\/p>\n

Dobrznyski:<\/p>\n

This
\nentry is about art students who won’t go to art museums. Apparently,
\nsome students today think that viewing art online is good enough or
\nbetter. That’s what I discovered reading a blog item by Laurie
\nFendrich, a painter who lives and works in New York and is a professor
\nof fine arts at Hofstra University.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Dobrznski didn’t link to the Fendrich story; here<\/a> it is. (Fendrich doesn’t appear to link to her sources either.)<\/p>\n

Fendrich:<\/p>\n

Yesterday a colleague who teaches painting emailed me that it’s hard
\nfor him to get his students to go to a museum to look at a work of art.
\nThey just can’t see the point. Why schlep into New York to go to a
\nmuseum to see a painting, especially since, as often as not, the
\nhyper-bright, clean crisp image of it that’s posted on the museum’s Web
\nsite makes the real thing look limp and lame by comparison?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

They’re
\nboth missing a salient point understood by the students. A lot of art
\ntoday is about the replication of imagery. Its aura, in the Walter Benjamin<\/a> sense, is not lost in mechanical reproduction. It exists because<\/i> of mechanical reproduction.<\/p>\n

Michael Kimmelman<\/a> learned this when he asked Cindy Sherman<\/a> to visit the Met<\/a> with him in 1996, as part of a NYT portrait series he turned into a book<\/a>.
\nShe told him she rarely went to the Met. She was in fact surprised that
\npaintings have a different kind of life in person than they do in
\ncatalogs, where she’s used to seeing them. She claimed not to have
\npreviously noticed this elementary (Watson) fact. She didn’t notice
\nbecause she doesn’t need it. That’s not what her work is about. <\/p>\n

Sherman To Kimmelman on the history of her medium (art historians, avert your eyes):<\/p>\n

I’m illiterate in the historical, classic knowledge of photography, the
\nstuff teachers attempted to bore into my head, which I resisted. The
\nway I’ve always tried to cull information from older art and put it
\ninto my work is that I view it all anonymously, on a visceral level.
\nLately I’ve been looking at a lot of images from Surrealism and Dada,
\nbut I never remember which ones are the Man Rays, say, because I’m just
\nlooking for what interests me.<\/p>\n

<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Some
\nartists don’t go to museums until their own work is there, and some,
\nlike Sherman, tend not to go even then. This is neither shocking nor
\ncause for hand-wringing.<\/p>\n

Bruce Barcott<\/b> on a disgraceful name enshrined in honor at the Seattle Art Museum<\/a>, in City Arts Seattle<\/a><\/i>:<\/p>\n

\n

My daughter and I were strolling through the Seattle Art Museum
\nrecently, enjoying the treasures in the museum’s still-feels-new
\nexpansion wing, when I turned a corner and saw these words: “Kerry
\n& Linda Killinger Gallery.”<\/p>\n

I stood there, gobsmacked.<\/p>\n

The Killinger Gallery: I’d never noticed it before. Donor names on
\ngallery walls and theatre seats are so ubiquitous that they rarely
\nregister. But this one popped up as if lit up in Dan Flavin neon. Here
\nwas Seattle’s culpability in the global economic crisis laid bare. Here
\nwas our shame displayed.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n


Susan Robb<\/a>:<\/b> Her Warmth, Giant Black Toobs<\/i> is in Houston. The able Douglas Britt has the story, here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"toobs.jpg\"<\/a><\/span>From Blade Diary<\/a> via Eyeteeth<\/a><\/b>: What to do with abandoned newspaper boxes:<\/p>\n

\"newspaperbox.jpg\"<\/a><\/span>Finally<\/b>, Ellsworth Kelly<\/a> (the dress<\/a>) from Greg.org and Ellsworth Kelly (the interview<\/a>) from Kenneth Baker. Ellsworth Kelly now, Ellsworth Kelly forever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Oh, the horror. Judith H. Dobrzynski on her AJ blog, Real Clear Arts, lamented the following:  Who’s Looking at Paintings? Not, Apparently, Even Art Students. Dobrznyski: This entry is about art students who won’t go to art museums. Apparently, some students today think that viewing art online is good enough or better. That’s what I […]<\/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-622","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\/622","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=622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}