Slog - Comments on This Is Going Up in the Olympic Sculpture Park http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/this_is_going_up_in_the_olympic_sculptur It's Dennis Oppenheim's 18-foot-tall, fiberglass Safety Cones (2007), pictured on Park Avenue, in a rendering by Amy Plumb. (It was actually first installed in December 2007 at the entrance to the SCOPE Miami art fair.) They're scheduled to be up from mid-May through the fall. It's Oppenheim season: The appearance of the cones corresponds with a show of models, drawings, and photographs of Oppenheim's work at Gallery4Culture starting next first Thursday, May 1, and running through May 30. On April 30 at 7 pm, Oppenheim will give a lecture at the Seattle Public Library. Admission is free.... Copyright 2008 Thu, 17 Apr 2008 17:08:29 -0800 Mon, 21 Apr 2008 18:51:30 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Will in Seattle Neat!

Too bad it will have to be moved when the Streetcar Barn goes there.

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/this_is_going_up_in_the_olympic_sculptur#c1001215 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/this_is_going_up_in_the_olympic_sculptur#c1001215 Visual Art Thu, 17 Apr 2008 17:12:00 -0800 Comment by Ziggity Those better be stackable during transport. I don't want my tax dollars paying for four flatbeds.

]]> Ziggity http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/this_is_going_up_in_the_olympic_sculptur#c1001233 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/this_is_going_up_in_the_olympic_sculptur#c1001233 Visual Art Thu, 17 Apr 2008 17:21:37 -0800 Comment by unPC Can you believe that guy standing in the street on the right hand side of this rendering? I know a rendering is fiction but wow. New York City sure is lawless and disorderly -- people seem to jaywalk with abandon. Gosh, that light is red for him. Doesn't he see it??

]]> unPC http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/this_is_going_up_in_the_olympic_sculptur#c1001240 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/this_is_going_up_in_the_olympic_sculptur#c1001240 Visual Art Thu, 17 Apr 2008 17:23:44 -0800 Comment by kinkos where are the DO NOT TOUCH!!! signs?

]]> kinkos http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/this_is_going_up_in_the_olympic_sculptur#c1001253 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/this_is_going_up_in_the_olympic_sculptur#c1001253 Visual Art Thu, 17 Apr 2008 17:36:24 -0800 Comment by Dougsf My Two Dads alert! It's not terrible, but Dick Butkis probably thinks its ka-razy.

]]> Dougsf http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/this_is_going_up_in_the_olympic_sculptur#c1001291 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/this_is_going_up_in_the_olympic_sculptur#c1001291 Visual Art Thu, 17 Apr 2008 18:05:59 -0800 Comment by Reverse Polarity Oh, I know! I'll make a 20" diameter fiberglass manhole cover and call it art! I'll make a fortune!

]]> Reverse Polarity http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/this_is_going_up_in_the_olympic_sculptur#c1001391 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/this_is_going_up_in_the_olympic_sculptur#c1001391 Visual Art Thu, 17 Apr 2008 21:16:12 -0800 Comment by Dade Murphy So, to clarify:

1. Take an everyday object
2. Make it really, really big
...
4. Art?

]]> Dade Murphy http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/this_is_going_up_in_the_olympic_sculptur#c1001419 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/this_is_going_up_in_the_olympic_sculptur#c1001419 Visual Art Thu, 17 Apr 2008 23:21:43 -0800 Comment by quilsone yet another coup for the olympic sculpture park. seattle is so world class, it makes my knees fall of.

]]> quilsone http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/this_is_going_up_in_the_olympic_sculptur#c1001424 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/this_is_going_up_in_the_olympic_sculptur#c1001424 Visual Art Thu, 17 Apr 2008 23:40:27 -0800 Comment by infrequent it looks to be on scale with the typewriter eraser.

]]> infrequent http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/this_is_going_up_in_the_olympic_sculptur#c1001480 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/this_is_going_up_in_the_olympic_sculptur#c1001480 Visual Art Fri, 18 Apr 2008 08:27:05 -0800 Comment by Al I walk by that block on the way to work every day. The building off frame on the right is Lever House, which has a lobby and courtyard that houses some wild art pieces. They just uninstalled the 50 foot statue of a pregnant woman flayed open so you could see the underlying muscle and fetus. That was up for a couple years, I think.

They just cycled a piece out of the lobby that consisted of two sides of beef in a formaldahyde tank with an umbrella and bowler hat (representing a teacher) in front of a "class" of decapitated goats, each in their own glass case of formaldahyde.

It's been replaced by 9 or so rosin nude figures of the artist. He scanned himself and digitally altered the result so that from one angle it appears normal, but from other angles the figure has been compressed or expanded. It's actually really cool, though it kind of hurts your eyes.

]]> Al http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/this_is_going_up_in_the_olympic_sculptur#c1001491 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/this_is_going_up_in_the_olympic_sculptur#c1001491 Visual Art Fri, 18 Apr 2008 09:06:41 -0800 Comment by max solomon wow. more boring art by 60's has-beens. just what we needed.

]]> max solomon http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/this_is_going_up_in_the_olympic_sculptur#c1001500 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/this_is_going_up_in_the_olympic_sculptur#c1001500 Visual Art Fri, 18 Apr 2008 09:18:59 -0800 Comment by sepiolida ewwww.... what an eyesore.. that's art?

]]> sepiolida http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/this_is_going_up_in_the_olympic_sculptur#c1001503 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/this_is_going_up_in_the_olympic_sculptur#c1001503 Visual Art Fri, 18 Apr 2008 09:23:39 -0800 Comment by meh Question to the peanut gallery: let's say a "world famous" sculpture park decides to install a piece of art that would effectively block pedestrian access on certain pathways to said park for special events. Is it ironic that the piece in question is a set of giant traffic cones? Is SAM once again f'ing with those that run special events by installing giant traffic cones in the way of event attendees? Inquiring minds...

]]> meh http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/this_is_going_up_in_the_olympic_sculptur#c1001518 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/this_is_going_up_in_the_olympic_sculptur#c1001518 Visual Art Fri, 18 Apr 2008 09:33:01 -0800 Comment by inclined fun!

]]> inclined http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/this_is_going_up_in_the_olympic_sculptur#c1001544 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/this_is_going_up_in_the_olympic_sculptur#c1001544 Visual Art Fri, 18 Apr 2008 10:09:48 -0800 Comment by inkweary @1 I read that the streetcar barn and the waterfront streetcar itself have been kiboshed. The upcoming work on the viaduct will block the streetcar rails.

]]> inkweary http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/this_is_going_up_in_the_olympic_sculptur#c1001677 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/this_is_going_up_in_the_olympic_sculptur#c1001677 Visual Art Fri, 18 Apr 2008 11:40:28 -0800 Comment by Dougsf #13 - I would answer that question by stating "the only thing that blocks my access to public parks IS special events."

]]> Dougsf http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/this_is_going_up_in_the_olympic_sculptur#c1001886 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/this_is_going_up_in_the_olympic_sculptur#c1001886 Visual Art Fri, 18 Apr 2008 13:48:26 -0800 Comment by turkeymonkey There will be giant drunk guys to wear them on their heads, right? And yell at hot chicks through them, like megaphones, right?
F'ing sweet! Then throw them on top of bus stops.

]]> turkeymonkey http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/this_is_going_up_in_the_olympic_sculptur#c1002318 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/this_is_going_up_in_the_olympic_sculptur#c1002318 Visual Art Sat, 19 Apr 2008 08:32:05 -0800 Comment by john hmm, it seems like they won't really work well in the context of a park...

]]> john http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/this_is_going_up_in_the_olympic_sculptur#c1003207 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/this_is_going_up_in_the_olympic_sculptur#c1003207 Visual Art Mon, 21 Apr 2008 18:51:30 -0800