Slog - Comments on A Dickens of a Character http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/a_dickens_of_a_character In this week's feature on Gage Academy of Art, I write about the academy's conflicted director, Gary Faigin. Faigin is one of my favorite characters in Seattle art. He is eccentric and stubborn, and openly admits he is threatened by a newfound open-mindedness that has taken him over in the last few years. The fight at the heart of Gage Academy is the fight at the heart of Gary Faigin, between an emphasis on time-tested skill in art--the stuff you can't bullshit--and ideas, feelings, all the things you can't measure, but which ultimately make art what it is. Actually, that's... Copyright 2008 Fri, 27 Apr 2007 10:24:33 -0800 Fri, 11 May 2007 22:43:41 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by meks That looks like chihuli in the green jumpsuit on the bottom.

]]> meks http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/a_dickens_of_a_character#c704135 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/a_dickens_of_a_character#c704135 Arts Fri, 27 Apr 2007 13:11:57 -0800 Comment by Bev Corwin My husband and I are the two people in the lower right corner. We are leaning forward eagerly, listening to Gary, who is one of the very best art lecturers around!!

]]> Bev Corwin http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/a_dickens_of_a_character#c704899 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/a_dickens_of_a_character#c704899 Arts Mon, 30 Apr 2007 07:20:16 -0800 Comment by SBF I'm Gary's sister and I'm not in the picture.
(Wish I was there!). I think that Gary is really cute when he talks about Art or practically anything. Our parents, however, were not so impressed when he went to San Francisco to be a professional hippie rather than a college student at University of Michigan. They liked the art school part better, though.

]]> SBF http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/a_dickens_of_a_character#c705912 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/a_dickens_of_a_character#c705912 Arts Tue, 01 May 2007 17:32:58 -0800 Comment by Pamela It's funny to find some of the connections this Struth photograph has made: the bottom photograph (gallery visitors looking at the Struth photograph of museum visitors) was taken in the Marian Goodman Gallery by a sculptor from Paris and a friend of Gary's named Jonathan Hirschfeld. Jonathan was amused to find Gary prominently featured in the center of the Prado quintyph for a price of a half million dollars! Gary's dealer, John Braseth of Woodside/Braseth Gallery, also discovered the Struth exhibition and was quite surprised to find one of his own artists serendipitiously included in the work of a major photographer. I wonder who else has been accidentally captured in these amazing photographs? I know I am in the photograph, but I'm not easily recognizable...

]]> Pamela http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/a_dickens_of_a_character#c707627 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/a_dickens_of_a_character#c707627 Arts Fri, 04 May 2007 09:43:36 -0800 Comment by Kathy Mahan I am the woman with the red hair and pink sweater just to the left of Gary in the middle photograph - the closeup. You'll wonder why I have on reading glasses when looking at art. It is because I was constantly taking notes while listening to Gary. I couldn't write fast enough....he says so much that is so interesting that one doesn't want to forget. The days in the Prado with Gary "lecturing" were incredible! Even people not in our group gathered around.

]]> Kathy Mahan http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/a_dickens_of_a_character#c709604 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/a_dickens_of_a_character#c709604 Arts Mon, 07 May 2007 15:47:45 -0800 Comment by Kathy Mahan I am the woman with the red hair and pink sweater just to the left of Gary in the middle photograph - the closeup. You'll wonder why I have on reading glasses when looking at art. It is because I was constantly taking notes while listening to Gary. I couldn't write fast enough....he says so much that is so interesting that one doesn't want to forget. The days in the Prado with Gary "lecturing" were incredible! Even people not in our group gathered around.

]]> Kathy Mahan http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/a_dickens_of_a_character#c709605 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/a_dickens_of_a_character#c709605 Arts Mon, 07 May 2007 15:47:58 -0800 Comment by SBF Someone should send this page to Thomas Struth.

]]> SBF http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/a_dickens_of_a_character#c709865 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/a_dickens_of_a_character#c709865 Arts Mon, 07 May 2007 21:04:09 -0800 Comment by bmhcrv hzudtckwx ywsvtfla bslyw edfywbhna kwixlyzda ixgclajm fhtcx pvuyrig

]]> bmhcrv hzudtckwx http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/a_dickens_of_a_character#c713719 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/a_dickens_of_a_character#c713719 Arts Fri, 11 May 2007 22:41:39 -0800 Comment by qnfytd mvtc pucmx seurvnyw lfvuj sdkbvl gnsxjoyf kfimogz xfyhgcls clvyf wvdoter

]]> qnfytd mvtc http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/a_dickens_of_a_character#c713721 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/a_dickens_of_a_character#c713721 Arts Fri, 11 May 2007 22:43:41 -0800