NY Arches! Good; bad?
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- plashal
Art for art sake... ?
I dig it .. but it isn't all that pretty... more of an art to make it happen...
- blaw0
here's a link:
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/1…
- SteveJobs0
this might sound a little hippyish, but i wonder how much money was spent on this initiative and how many homeless could have been fed/clothed with that money.
it's a nice concept but what practical purpose does it serve?
- Jaline0
I'm not sure if I'm for or against this. I have the same arguments about how that money could've been used in a more productive manner, but at the same time it is art. Or something to that degree.
I think there's some nicer stuff you could do.
- mrdobolina0
those artists donated the installation which cost 21 million, the city stands to bring in 80 million due to people coming to see it. why not?
- ebon0
i believe they also hired a few hundred...maybe thousand New Yorkers.
- ebon0
- talltyler0
In my mind artist need to stop this behavior, creativity isn't measured in how many people you can get to become interested or pissed off or even how much money is put into your ideas it's measured in something more along the lines of how much you are pushing the boundaries of your medium further that they were before. Christo and Jeanne-Claude have been making the same shit for decades and even if the city didn't pay for it you know someone else did. In my mind money for the arts should be rethought. I am tired of seeing unthought out million dollar pieces of uncreative crap.
- vburo0
this might sound a little hippyish, but i wonder how much money was spent on this initiative and how many homeless could have been fed/clothed with that money.
it's a nice concept but what practical purpose does it serve?
SteveJobs
(Feb 12 05, 15:01)HERE WE GO AGAIN!!!!!!!!
Did you think about the poor little black chidlren in Africa with their blown-up little bellies when you laid down a few hundred bucks for your oh so fashionable iPod????
Well did ya p0nk?
- SteveJobs0
spending $180USD on an ebay ipod to keep me entertained, inspired, and productive at work, and several million on some orange drapes are hardly comparable.
- vburo0
that is true, hardly comparable indeed.
ridiculous to compare such a trivial thing as an iPod with this piece of wonder.
glad we agree.
- dippy0
sorry StevJobs, but your question makes as much as sense as asking why spend money building a museum. In the same way that you are entertained and inspired by music coming from your $180 iPod, I was entertained and inspired for two hours today walking through Central Park. And I didn't have to pay a red cent -- neither did Christo, apparently, since the project was paid for by the sale of his documentation.
Sure, they coulda used the money to feed and clothe the homeless. We all could do more of that. It's a valid issue. But there's also validity in spending money in order to make art accessible to normal people like you and me. Otherwise, we may as well empty out the Metropolitan Museum of Art and use it as a homeless shelter.
- swollenelbow0
come on...they're nice.
- CyBrainX0
I'm going tomorrow. Should I take video or stills?
- dippy0
both. Though if you're doing video, you better hope that the wind picks up. Looks way cooler.
- dippy0
The coolest thing is that they have these guys with twenty-foot poles with tennis balls stuck to the end, and they go around fixing all the curtains that have gotten tangled in their frame. And when they fix a gate, everyone cheers!
- SteveJobs0
a valid point, dippy. look, i'm not against it, it's just that when that much money is put into art, it kinda makes me cringe - and that's coming from an artist. but whatever, i've worked with homeless people and many of them are in the state they are in because they are just plain lazy, which gets little sympathy from me - so it goes both ways.
i hope the installation is a huge inspiration to many.
- usrper0
building a museum lasts way longer. and it does good for hundreds of artists from different backgrounds.
i think ill go central park now.
- yurimon0
I think, Artist have to stop thinking like serfs. Fallacy of art and money not related to each other is a wrong idea that started in the 60's. Business and relate quite well. Look at picaso, He was rich. Michael Angelo was rich.
If all artist stopped thinking of themselves as art for hire and think ownership then we could rule this biatch planet.
- gosche0
its always better to spend money for art than for war...like on irak!