Slog - Comments on Paul Allen and J.M.W. Turner, BFF? http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/04/paul_allen_and I was just looking at a news item from this past weekend about Felix Gonzalez-Torres's selection to represent the US at the 2007 Venice Biennale (more on that in a forthcoming post) when I saw something I'd overlooked, from the NY Times: A mysterious American collector bought a dreamy scene of Venice by J. M. W. Turner for $35.8 million, a record for the artist, at Christie's in New York yesterday [April 6]. "Giudecca, La Donna della Salute and San Giorgio" (around 1840) was being sold by St. Francis of Assisi Foundation, a nonprofit organization in White Plains that supports... Copyright 2007 Wed, 12 Apr 2006 22:35:35 -0800 Thu, 13 Apr 2006 08:47:54 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Colin I thought the NY Times outed Steve(?) Wynn, the Las Vegas casino guy, as the buyer.




Someone factcheck. I'm pretty sure it's the same case.

]]> Colin http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/04/paul_allen_and#c093443 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/04/paul_allen_and#c093443 Arts Thu, 13 Apr 2006 01:28:10 -0800 Comment by Jen Graves You're completely right. Steve Wynn got it.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/08/arts/design/08turn.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

I also feel like Wynn's presentation of impressionist pieces at the Bellagio was less weird than Allen's current show, if that's even possible. Maybe I'm being uncharitable now ...

]]> Jen Graves http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/04/paul_allen_and#c093912 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/04/paul_allen_and#c093912 Arts Thu, 13 Apr 2006 08:42:42 -0800 Comment by new urbanism Wynn even let you take your camera and for snapshots, as I recall.

If only Allen's installation were as well done.

Some paintings - most infamously, the Rothko - even have shadows cast on their upper edges by the ghastly frames.

And who is that idiot professor he hired to blab a bunch of smart undergraduate style "compare and contrast" essays in our ears as we try to enjoy the fruits on Allen's bounty?

That's the thing about similarity and difference: everything is both similar to, and different from, everything else - or can be made so by someone making an exhibition of themselves and their overwrought interpretive skills.

]]> new urbanism http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/04/paul_allen_and#c093922 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/04/paul_allen_and#c093922 Arts Thu, 13 Apr 2006 08:47:54 -0800