{"id":718,"date":"2009-06-22T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-22T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp\/2009\/06\/mr_puppet\/"},"modified":"2009-06-22T05:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-22T12:00:00","slug":"mr_puppet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/2009\/06\/mr_puppet.html","title":{"rendered":"Seattle&#8217;s Mr Puppet on the outside looking in"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When an exhibit is traveling, local venues frequently complement what arrives in crates with what can be carried across town. A Picasso and Matisse, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seattlepi.com\/archives\/1997\/9702200068.asp\">together again<\/a>, blockbuster? We can add to that. European Impressionism, peak and post?&nbsp; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seattlepi.com\/visualart\/367722_impressionism20q.html\">We can match that<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The exception is contemporary. If an exhibit on a contemporary theme is on the road, rare is the regional museum able\/willing to integrate the home grown with the imported.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Why? If done badly, it&#8217;s better not done. Good examples of Picasso exist lots of places. But faith that artists in a particular region can succeed in a global context is harder to come by.<\/p>\n<p><i>The Puppet Show<\/i> from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.icaphila.org\/\">ICA<\/a> is a hit at the <a href=\"http:\/\/fryemuseum.org\/exhibition\/1455\/\">Frye<\/a>. That&#8217;s great, but why not spread that applause around? <\/p>\n<p>Take Seattle&#8217;s Mr. Puppet, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelarmsworks.com\/warner\/\">Warner Blake<\/a>, veteran of innumerable street fairs and puppet dinner theaters. No room for his orchestra on the back of a turtle, his suitcase-sized marching band?<\/p>\n<p>It would have been easy to make a little. <\/p>\n<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"warnerblakepuppet1.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/warnerblakepuppet1.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px; text-align: center; display: block;\" width=\"401\" height=\"306\" \/><\/span><br \/><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"warnerblakepuppet2.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/warnerblakepuppet2.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px; text-align: center; display: block;\" width=\"401\" height=\"259\" \/><\/span><br \/><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"warnerblakepuppet3.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/warnerblakepuppet3.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px; text-align: center; display: block;\" width=\"247\" height=\"222\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<div>Blake is far from the only choice. He&#8217;s not even the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gregkucera.com\/webb.htm\">obvious choice<\/a>. But Blake not only embodies this genre, he transcends it. As long as a curator is going outside, why not go all the way outside? If <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nyu.edu\/gsas\/dept\/fineart\/ifa\/faculty\/storr.htm\">Robert Storr<\/a> were a Frye curator, he would have made it happen.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When an exhibit is traveling, local venues frequently complement what arrives in crates with what can be carried across town. A Picasso and Matisse, together again, blockbuster? We can add to that. European Impressionism, peak and post?&nbsp; We can match that. The exception is contemporary. 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