Slog - Comments on Jones Throne http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/jones_throne_1 One of my favorite things to do these last few months has been to pay a visit to the throne at the Henry Art Gallery. It's the humblest possible throne, made of splattered mud and sticks, beset by a pair of van Goghish boots that push it almost into ridiculous cliche, but don't. Photo: Youth in Focus That photo was taken before the black boots were added, not long after artist Kim Jones's brief performance in October in that spot in the gallery, as a tired Mudman with an eyelid crushed under a pair of hose. The hose are on... Copyright 2008 Thu, 10 Jan 2008 09:30:22 -0800 Thu, 10 Jan 2008 17:29:46 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Will in Seattle He would have been fine if he had a Department of Defense permit for studying the effects of fire on live mammals.

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/jones_throne_1#c895616 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/jones_throne_1#c895616 Visual Art Thu, 10 Jan 2008 10:12:58 -0800 Comment by NapoleonXIV I'm treating all these arts-related posts as a desperate plea for attention.

And ignoring them.

]]> NapoleonXIV http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/jones_throne_1#c895621 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/jones_throne_1#c895621 Visual Art Thu, 10 Jan 2008 10:15:51 -0800 Comment by RHETT ORACLE Jen - if you say this is art, then one assumes there will be no need for a mop and bucket after the installation is uninstalled. Wouldn't the detritus of its having been there be art too? Jim Dine pretty much proved that whatever people say is art, must be art, and if you, as the viewer, disagree, well, you're just a sticks-idiot.

]]> RHETT ORACLE http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/jones_throne_1#c895637 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/jones_throne_1#c895637 Visual Art Thu, 10 Jan 2008 10:21:21 -0800 Comment by crazycatguy Why this piece of crap deserves any attention is beyond me.

]]> crazycatguy http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/jones_throne_1#c895650 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/jones_throne_1#c895650 Visual Art Thu, 10 Jan 2008 10:33:06 -0800 Comment by Amy Kate Horn WOW, you people are closed-minded and anti-art!

]]> Amy Kate Horn http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/jones_throne_1#c895680 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/jones_throne_1#c895680 Visual Art Thu, 10 Jan 2008 10:49:28 -0800 Comment by NapoleonXIV I think that's what I said.

]]> NapoleonXIV http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/jones_throne_1#c895688 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/jones_throne_1#c895688 Visual Art Thu, 10 Jan 2008 10:54:36 -0800 Comment by Timothy Wind Art like this takes a bit of investment on the part of the viewer. To Jones, as well as many other people, sticks, more specifically the arrangement of these sticks, hold loads of symbolic meaning. If you as a viewer would just give up a bit of your time and subconsciousness you would be able to appreciate, even if you don't like, Kim Jones.
P.S. I think that lighting a rat on fire is one of the most beautifully humanist works Jones ever did. He gave us something very personally and gave us a view onto a world many people never see.

]]> Timothy Wind http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/jones_throne_1#c895703 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/jones_throne_1#c895703 Visual Art Thu, 10 Jan 2008 11:04:55 -0800 Comment by NapoleonXIV Yes, yes, yes--lighting rats on fire is dreamy and poetic. I get it.

]]> NapoleonXIV http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/jones_throne_1#c895710 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/jones_throne_1#c895710 Visual Art Thu, 10 Jan 2008 11:09:20 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle @5 - of course we are. You can tell by the long lines to see this.

(looks at the online pic of Red Square in MyUW)

Um, maybe they got bored and decided not to line up?

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/jones_throne_1#c895736 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/jones_throne_1#c895736 Visual Art Thu, 10 Jan 2008 11:31:56 -0800 Comment by Jubilation T. Cornball Amy Kate Horn, and I don't care!
Amy Kate Horn, and I don't care!
Amy Kate Horn, and I don't caaaaaaaaaaaare!!!!

This art is total crap!

]]> Jubilation T. Cornball http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/jones_throne_1#c896146 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/jones_throne_1#c896146 Visual Art Thu, 10 Jan 2008 16:09:01 -0800 Comment by Timothy Wind @8
sorry for not getting to this sooner, but I don't have all day to read SLOG comments.

What are you looking for "Napoleon", realism? Well how about this: Jone's live rat burning is a direct document of the activities he and the other officers entertained themselves with in Vietnam.

]]> Timothy Wind http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/jones_throne_1#c896150 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/jones_throne_1#c896150 Visual Art Thu, 10 Jan 2008 16:13:40 -0800 Comment by NapoleonXIV By that measure, napalming Vietnamese is art.

]]> NapoleonXIV http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/jones_throne_1#c896151 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/jones_throne_1#c896151 Visual Art Thu, 10 Jan 2008 16:14:57 -0800 Comment by Timothy Wind I didn't think we were talking about art. I thought we were talking about Kim Jones.
Also: No, by that measure Kim Jones napalming Vietnamese in America is art.

]]> Timothy Wind http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/jones_throne_1#c896279 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/jones_throne_1#c896279 Visual Art Thu, 10 Jan 2008 17:29:46 -0800