Slog - Comments on The "Billion" Dollars of Art http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/the_billion_dollars_of_art In writing about the departure of Seattle Art Museum director Mimi Gates last week, I had cause once again to refer to the famed billion-dollar gift of art to SAM that was announced last March. I added a caveat to it ("the museum announced what it called a billion dollars' worth of gifts of art from private collectors"), but that wasn't enough. I'm going to stop using the number altogether. Here's why: In an unrelated interview, Seattle-based American collector Barney Ebsworth let slip to me one day that he was the one who came up with the billion-dollar figure for... Copyright 2008 Mon, 09 Jun 2008 11:02:49 -0800 Mon, 09 Jun 2008 12:14:27 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by FullFreeXXXMovies watch full free porn movies as long as you want on .... www.fullfreexxxmovies.com IT'S ALL FREE

]]> FullFreeXXXMovies http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/the_billion_dollars_of_art#c1042968 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/the_billion_dollars_of_art#c1042968 Visual Art Mon, 09 Jun 2008 11:11:38 -0800 Comment by deeplennon I think comment #1 nailed my thoughts on this post.

]]> deeplennon http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/the_billion_dollars_of_art#c1042970 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/the_billion_dollars_of_art#c1042970 Visual Art Mon, 09 Jun 2008 11:14:23 -0800 Comment by Mr. Poe Yay spam! Woo! ALL FREE?! Zomg.

]]> Mr. Poe http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/the_billion_dollars_of_art#c1042971 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/the_billion_dollars_of_art#c1042971 Visual Art Mon, 09 Jun 2008 11:14:39 -0800 Comment by max solomon consider it done.

]]> max solomon http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/the_billion_dollars_of_art#c1043000 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/the_billion_dollars_of_art#c1043000 Visual Art Mon, 09 Jun 2008 11:29:44 -0800 Comment by tomasyalba The accurate measure of the donations' value would be the allowed deductions the donors achieved on their taxes - which were due soon after the announcement. Talk about hard to verify.

]]> tomasyalba http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/the_billion_dollars_of_art#c1043003 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/the_billion_dollars_of_art#c1043003 Visual Art Mon, 09 Jun 2008 11:31:50 -0800 Comment by Jubilation T. Cornball I find it pathetic that SAM would trumpet the $$$ value of their donations versus the works' intrinsic worth as best-in-class and/or groundbreaking for the genre/times/whatever.

The easy "penis size" yardstick of $$$ worth is, as Jen makes all too clear in so many of the Currently Hanging posts, meaningless in these times when some schlub can slap a plastic bucket to a fence post, call it "UNTITLED (Memories of my parents and how they used to fight every night about which news program to watch)," and charge $50,000 for it.

And then, to find out it was just some # they pulled out of their ass only makes it more cringe worthy.

Jen, I understand why -- and even admire the fact -- you flog the local museum(s), their leadership and their wares...it's your beat...but we really do have some two-bit shit going on around here.

Because of all this -- and because I'm all about solutions versus problems -- I am pleased to announce that the Cornball Davidson will be going to SAM as a gift in memoriam to Mr. Poe when he's finally run down by a keshmeshi-driven AMC Pacer.

That ought to get the value of SAM's recent donations over $1B, for realz.

]]> Jubilation T. Cornball http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/the_billion_dollars_of_art#c1043063 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/the_billion_dollars_of_art#c1043063 Visual Art Mon, 09 Jun 2008 12:14:27 -0800