THE SERIOUS ART COMMUNITY: ON CRACK?

We report; you agree.

(Thanks to queensbee)

Comments

[Lou Bricant]

.aedi emal yllaer a si taht

[Dave (not Barry.. calm down)]

>>Entrance will be free but Lamprecht said donations would be welcome.

I'll be happy to donate, but we're gonna "flip" it.. he's gonna give ME money to attend his idiotic exhibition.

[Drew]

Are the Dutch Masters hung the wrong way or their paintings?

[Ben]

"These are fascinating things to see from behind," he said.

[Bella]

Key quote: "These are fascinating things to see from behind," he said.

Fascinating... that's the word I usually use to describe behinds...

[Ben]

"They'll all be flipped, to completely take the space and turn it into something new and unexpected," Lamprecht told Reuters.

I'm sorry, I was expecting art.

"These are fascinating things to see from behind," he said.

Right

[Higgy]

Speaking of fascinating things to see from behind, where's Punky and elle?

*runs to avoid stones thrown at him*

[Dave (not Barry.. calm down)]

Damn.. now Dave's going to get it into his head to "flip" this blog..

[Polly]

[Curator Andrew Lamprecht said the "Flip" exhibition opening in Cape Town next month represents "a conceptual art intervention"...]

Is this like the intervention we had for my drunken granny?

[Tetsu]

"What's this written on the back here? 'For a good time call Mona Lisa 555-...'"

[mbgordon81]

Tired of the typical art viewing?
Just see what South Africa's doing!
They've flipped all the art
And right from the start
Dave bloggers are spewing and booing!

[Christobol]

I bet, if you were an art counterfeiter, you would find it a LOT easier to fake the back of a great painting.

Just saying.

[Heidi Crabtree]

Hey if it were an exhibition here in the US, they would have been given a million dollar grant to hang paintings thw wrong way around!

[Heidi Crabtree]

Hey if it were an exhibition here in the US, they would have been given a million dollar grant to hang paintings the wrong way around!

[Peri]

How can anyone tell if these are really original masterpieces? You could turn a velvet Elvis to the wall and swear it was the Mona Lisa.

[D'Artagnan]

What a horrible idea. I mean, how are supposed to tell if the art was hung upside down?

[sistacc]

Crack, very definitely. Maybe butt crack?

[bbescuela]

"'These are fascinating things to see from behind,' he said." Well, that IS where you would find the crack, I guess.

[Christobol]

"And over here, baby, that's a Picasso I picked up on a little jaunt to Europe last year."

"Oooh! A Picasso?...Why is it hanging backwards?"

"Gotta protect it, baby....you wanna see the rest of the mobile home or just head on out to Denny's?"

[kibby F5]

Yea! How do we know the doodling isn't fake too!?

However, what is cool are the names of the stone masons carved into the steeples of many European churches when they were originally built. Notre Dame is one.

[qetzal]

I can think of some "serious art" that I'd prefer to keep flipped towards the wall.

[echo]

"....view from behind".... kind of like the "Pop Diva" Dave keeps teasing us with over on the right ==================>

[echo]

"....view from behind".... kind of like the "Pop Diva" Dave keeps teasing us with over on the right ==================>

[Rachel]

Yeah, the "guess it right and get a free..." pop diva. Thing is, no matter who you guess, they say you're right. Dammit, I want to know who that is!!

[queensbee]

an idea sooooo stupid that maybe dave barry would write a column about it. i actually had a lot of work this morning, so all the good stuff has been said.... i'm chiming in late!

[D'Artagnan]

Bangi has an Ellen Feiss moment.

[Lenore]

Are we sure they're not French??

[jamester]

Why not just hang my kids' refrigerator art and be done with it?

[waxwing]

Georgia O'Keeffe signed her name on the back of her paintings so people would not pay attention to the name of the artist instead of the art itself. Bet she's flipped now, but in her grave.

[Gregg]

If I had to go to that exhibit, I'd go insane. I'd have an apotheosis of freaking desuetude.

(I just had to use that line...)

Seriously, though. The art community is definitely on crack. Right now, at the Museum Of Contemporary Art (MOCA) in Los Angeles, there is a huge "artwork" outside the building that consists solely of...pieces of an airplane held together by wires. It doesn't even form any shape. It's just...pieces of an airplane held together by wires. Oookayyy.

[hippy_goth]

One of my favorite exhibits was at the La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, down the road from the Nissan Design Center. Well, they got together and did an Art of Automotive Design show--and my class got the Real Tour from a classmate who was a designer at Nissan. What reminded me of this was one of the exhibits: parts of an XTerra suspended with fishing line in correct 3-D orientation as they appear on the vehicle. They used only the most distinctive design elements and it was really cool to see them "floating" to form a recognizable form even with most of the vehicle missing.

[sheesh]

As regards the MOCA airplane hung by wires, it just struck me that the impetus was probably the idea of 'fly by wire' aircraft...

which is a moronic idea for a work of art. But if you pitch it to MOCA, 'Fly By Wire' probably sounds pretty clever.

The art world is stunningly uncreative.

[kj]

I read a short story once about a snooty art gallery displaying a picture consisting of, if I remember correctly, a stripe of orange above a stripe of yellow. The sophisticated art lovers went on and on about the significance of the orange above the yellow, and how it symbolized life, or hope, or death,and other pseudo-intelligent BS. At the end of the day a gallery employee realized that the picture had been hung upside down.