Slog - Comments on Buy Art, Help Kids http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/buy_art_help_kids A friend of mine works for a really amazing nonprofit in L.A. called The Alliance for Children's Rights that provides legal services for kids (foster kids, homeless kids, sick kids, etc.). This week they've organized--and I say this without hesitation--one of the coolest fundraisers ever. They bought up a bunch of 1950s paint-by-numbers canvasses and had famous artists transform them into new, weirdo, totally rad pieces of art. They're all for sale on eBay and 100% of the proceeds go to the Alliance (i.e. to helping a kid get a house or an operation or a mom). I know precious... Copyright 2008 Sun, 11 Feb 2007 14:15:07 -0800 Mon, 12 Feb 2007 10:22:49 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by No Linda No!! My sister painted that first one for a girl scout project. We had to live with that until she went to college and discovered sex.

]]> No Linda No!! http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/buy_art_help_kids#c627784 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/buy_art_help_kids#c627784 Arts Sun, 11 Feb 2007 15:45:06 -0800 Comment by caleb the most horrible garbage I have ever seen

the art turn off

better would be to do the paint by numbers, coat with brown varnish and pretend they were from the 15th century

put in that space above the toilet

]]> caleb http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/buy_art_help_kids#c627848 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/buy_art_help_kids#c627848 Arts Sun, 11 Feb 2007 17:40:40 -0800 Comment by GrammarCop What a terrific project! Surrealism is hard to carry off well, but this show is really something.

]]> GrammarCop http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/buy_art_help_kids#c628046 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/buy_art_help_kids#c628046 Arts Sun, 11 Feb 2007 20:26:02 -0800 Comment by Mokawi Brilliant.

]]> Mokawi http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/buy_art_help_kids#c628270 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/buy_art_help_kids#c628270 Arts Mon, 12 Feb 2007 00:45:16 -0800 Comment by mirror Wow, all but 3 or 4 of the redone versions looked like crappy art from the 70s found in yard sales done by the landlords of would-be avant guardists who had abandoned it. The originals are for the most part either more genuinely surreal or subtle. Any cultural comment is more shallow than the original (not so say racist).

I'm making this comment just so those few other Stranger readers who see it the same way don't feel so alone. I know this is the dominant aesthetic at the Stranger and accept my knuckle-draggin' outsider status in this , and many other, areas.

]]> mirror http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/buy_art_help_kids#c628791 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/buy_art_help_kids#c628791 Arts Mon, 12 Feb 2007 09:04:37 -0800 Comment by michael strangeways #2 and #5: Different strokes for different folks...if you don't like it, you're entitled to your opinion...you don't have to defend it. You have the right.

BUT...For my opinion.

What a great, great, great idea...And, yes, these are some MAJOR artists...and I love how some of them did a lot to the paintings and some of them hardly anything...I want all of them...

]]> michael strangeways http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/buy_art_help_kids#c628848 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/buy_art_help_kids#c628848 Arts Mon, 12 Feb 2007 10:22:49 -0800