tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post7173245813758358314..comments2024-03-28T22:50:02.315+11:00Comments on ART and ARCHITECTURE, mainly: Philip Guston's attack on KKK racism via his art.Helshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-62181564897222904272020-10-12T13:25:11.738+11:002020-10-12T13:25:11.738+11:00Hank
Thanks for the detailed response.... but I w...Hank<br /><br />Thanks for the detailed response.... but I would love comments to be limited to, say, 3 sentences :) <br /><br />Afterall I still don't know how you feel about Guston's art and who you think gained from the long-term postponement of the exhibition.Helshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-21350934353036712122020-10-12T03:12:53.595+11:002020-10-12T03:12:53.595+11:00Abandoning self-deception helps dispel mystery. No...Abandoning self-deception helps dispel mystery. Nobody mentions antebellum quadroon balls and only recently has rape of slave women become as mentionable as it was when Harriet Beecher Stowe's books were new BEFORE the War Against the Protective Tariff. Theodore Roosevelt's 1903 "race suicide" letter let the mask slip even before the Harrison and Mann Acts targeted pugilists like Jack Johnson. Ku-kluxers blossomed anew when Wilson was elected. His view they were as harmless as tee-totaling fratboys was believed by D.W. Griffith moviegoers. But prohibition of beer, with the consequent economic crashes, increase in communist sympathy and heroin use was over the line. After the Klanbake scandal and nomination of Whiskey Al the papist, the Klan defected en masse to the GOP and swore allegiance to Herbert Hoover. Hoover's Dry Crash, Depression and Moratorium aid to German National Socialism in exchange for German laws regulating heroin was the binding Quaker pact with Positive Christian National Socialism. Finally, after Nazi appeals at the war crimes trials for an alliance against Bolshevik atheism ripened into the George Wallace campaign against racial mixing. Outliers JFK, RFK and George Wallace conveniently shot and Quaker Nixon's party revived the faith-based, prohibitionist Christian National Socialist Gentlemen's Agreements none dare mention for fear of being branded as anti-mystical (hence pro-communist). Since the Nixon campaign subsidies began in 1971, both halves of The Kleptocracy have relied on fanatical hate mobs for the votes necessary to keep a hand in the till. This brings us to today's Tatsuya Ishida cartoon at sinfest.net. Hank Phillipshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12600557947173137546noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-84326420362287152252020-10-10T22:34:45.092+11:002020-10-10T22:34:45.092+11:00Hilary
of course all public spaces must close dow...Hilary<br /><br />of course all public spaces must close down during the pandemic. Even after it ends, if it ever does, numbers of visitors must be kept down, masked and separated. <br /><br />But in the meantime, I am very pleased that this post has raised some interest in an artist our generation might not have known. On the net I easily found Guston works that I'd never heard of before... about the KKK of course, but other subjects as well.Helshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-64947560095006309742020-10-10T21:28:06.104+11:002020-10-10T21:28:06.104+11:00Hi Hels - I suspect that the galleries decision is...Hi Hels - I suspect that the galleries decision is probably sensible ... I would hope that by 2024 (though could be later) that we're able to exhibit all kinds of art ... so we can evaluate for ourselves. Also with any luck the virus will be under control and more people will be able to visit ... I hadn't heard about him - so thanks for highlighting him and his art. All the best - HilaryHilary Melton-Butcherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17596532480645510678noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-75749742711651715322020-10-10T21:11:27.082+11:002020-10-10T21:11:27.082+11:00Parnassus
Is it true that to be attractive to lar...Parnassus<br /><br />Is it true that to be attractive to larger segments of the public, even significant museums have had to become lowest-common-denominator venues for the computer generations? I hope you are wrong, but I need to admit one shocking discovery of my own. In previous generations students in high school English classes had to read and analyse one novel per term. Now the children can choose between a novel per term or a film per term. No-one need ever read a book!Helshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-68354055840178273342020-10-10T21:03:02.119+11:002020-10-10T21:03:02.119+11:00LMK
conspiracy theories are usually easily dismis...LMK<br /><br />conspiracy theories are usually easily dismissed. But when President Trump would not criticise his Fascist supporters in his speeches, everything changes. <br /><br />The first delay for "Philip Guston Now" was caused by the pandemic and would have been held in 2021. As with exhibitions in galleries all over the world! <br /><br />But the delay till 2014 is very suspicious.Helshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-27149949785676009312020-10-10T20:57:18.215+11:002020-10-10T20:57:18.215+11:00Andrew
I thought the KKK paintings actually looke...Andrew<br /><br />I thought the KKK paintings actually looked rather mild, given that there were no guns, no lynchings and no viciously attacked black Americans. Rather the KKK men were shown smoking, driving and working. If it wasn't for the pointed white hoods, the viewers probably would not have learned much from Guston's works. <br /><br />I agree... the galleries' decisions have been very disappointing.Helshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-40426958277487658382020-10-10T20:12:31.412+11:002020-10-10T20:12:31.412+11:00Hello Hels, Today, more than ever, with art museum...Hello Hels, Today, more than ever, with art museums (as with so many other areas of life) it is a case of the patients running the asylum. Museums less and less have a leadership role in instructing the public. Instead they present what is warm and fuzzy (at least by today's standards), and more and more "name" pictures, even if they are not the artist's best work. In welcoming larger segments of the public, museums have given up all connoisseurship*, and have become lowest-common-denominator venues for electronic interactive activities which keep people focused on screens, never looking at the actual art hanging nearby.<br />--Jim<br />* Just to illustrate how standards are slipping, the word "connoisseurship" was not in my computer's spell-checker!Parnassushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08958901307538141468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-75240555835572519042020-10-10T13:34:27.770+11:002020-10-10T13:34:27.770+11:00Without sounding like a conspiracy theorist, perha...Without sounding like a conspiracy theorist, perhaps President Trump put pressure on the galleries to thank his KKK and Proud Boy supporters.LMKnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-60188720285772795292020-10-10T12:56:35.670+11:002020-10-10T12:56:35.670+11:00I find the KKK paintings very disturbing, and if t...I find the KKK paintings very disturbing, and if that was his intention, they work. I suppose galleries self censoring is not new but still in this case, very disappointing.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com