{"id":229,"date":"2009-11-03T17:06:34","date_gmt":"2009-11-03T17:06:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp\/?p=229"},"modified":"2009-11-03T17:06:34","modified_gmt":"2009-11-03T17:06:34","slug":"pardon_our_dust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/2009\/11\/pardon_our_dust\/","title":{"rendered":"Pardon Our Dust"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Okay, admittedly this is a <i>Gap<\/i> commercial, of all things, and extrapolating large life lessons from it might be a little lame and more than a bit misguided, but it got me thinking about the role of art&#8211;as in: is the ultimate goal of art always to shake up our private worlds and ways of experiencing  things, to let us mentally knock over a mannequin in the middle of a department store, so to say? And what about our arts institutions? Do we need them to be the staunch, quiet pillars and white walls of unchanging non-intrusive presentation, or could they use a radical redecoration in the way they do business as well? (Not that I&#8217;m suggesting we necessarily <a href=\"http:\/\/www.break.com\/index\/bringing-down-the-warehouse.html\">get extreme<\/a> about it.)<\/p>\n<p><center><object height=\"344\" width=\"425\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/de4kBBYdtT4&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0x5d1719&amp;color2=0xcd311b\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/de4kBBYdtT4&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0x5d1719&amp;color2=0xcd311b\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" height=\"344\" width=\"425\"><\/object><\/p>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Speaking of stirring up the dust, the NEA&#8217;s own Rocco throws a hypothetical punch behind <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748703932904574511320338376750.html\">agency support for artistic areas such as hip-hop and graffiti<\/a>. Cool, right? Gawker explains <a href=\"http:\/\/gawker.com\/5396039\/why-does-obama-want-to-pay-hip+hoppers-for-their-violent-sex-talk?autoplay=true\">why this may not be such a great idea<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, admittedly this is a Gap commercial, of all things, and extrapolating large life lessons from it might be a little lame and more than a bit misguided, but it got me thinking about the role of art&#8211;as in: is the ultimate goal of art always to shake up our private worlds and ways of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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-229","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}