Features Mar 26, 2014 at 4:00 am

It's the Biggest Public Art Commission in the History of the City, on the Waterfront

This is a 2012 installation of hers in New York City. She doesn’t yet know what she’ll make for Seattle. Thibault Jeanson

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Seattle is really lucky.
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Obligatory myopic troll post: "A million dollars!? What a waste of tax payer money! She'll just end up slapping together some ugly eyesore and calling it art! Why do we have to pay for this crazy lady to make something no one wants? If it were really valuable, the private sector would pay for it."
There, culture-haters. Saved you some time. You can go back to navel-gazing. Now, back to reality: I'm looking forward to finding out what Ms. Hamilton creates. Adding another interesting thing to Seattle's waterfront enriches and beautifies our city. Not every "investment" need yield a financial profit.
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oh hooray! I was just talking wistfully about that canary installation the other day. This is tremendously great news!!
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typical seattle sell-out behavior. Its like "this guy is obviously the best, most obvious choice but I gotta appease this beast". Reminds me of my friends statist matriarch who willed her families beloved cabin to a random charity to teach her children a lesson; the cabin has since been replaced with three or four mcmansions.
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Imagine that its 1992; Seattle is going hire a pop music act to perform on the waterfront. The headliner act is awarded to......folk legends Peter, Paul and Mary!!! [Nirvana will be one of the opening acts]. Silence.
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The Event of a Thread was the most amazing art installation/performance piece I have ever seen and, indeed, was lucky enough to be a part of. Getting jaded New Yorkers to experience a child-like sense of wonder is more than art, it's spiritual. Ann is an incredible artist and you should give her all your money to do whatever she wants to do.
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I remember the canary installation at the Henry vividly. It was amazing. I think she's a great choice, I'm really curious to see how installation art works on the waterfront.
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Perhaps she should talk to the 400 people who live across the street from pier 62/63 to get a better feel for the neighborhood.
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It will be as always, something that will haunt and inspire, wonderful news!
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Congratulations Ann Hamilton. Great choice! The best part? Sending a big Fuck You to local boys Robert Maki, Buster Simpson, Trimpin and Gary Hill. Pussy power yum yum good.
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Terrific news. I can't wait to see what she does.
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and thanks for the awesomely detailed and exciting announcement. this is super great news and I loved reading about it IN PRINT!!!!
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Our Seattle waterfront needs "public art" like a diamond needs a knife.
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I love public art, and am so pleased Seattle is pressing forward with substantial investments along the waterfront, including ART to inspire, make us talk, stop and think. Love it all. But in this article, I had the impression that Ms. Hamilton was some divine being, original in every way. So, I searched the web for stories about her other public art projects around the country, and low and behold, they are pretty predictable. After reading the following observation, seeming to cut down the competition for the million dollar commission: "With the first three, you'd have been able to foresee the kinds of objects you'd be getting" it made me very disappointed to see how many of Ms. Hamilton's projects sort of seem the same ole same ole. Letters and words etched, printed, carved, stuck onto large scale spaces. Wow. Now that's original. Can't wait to see carved words etched into timbers on the pier. Million dollar words. I hope I'm wrong. I hope the final product is amazing, and nothing like her prior public installations, especially the letters and words that make her art look so uninspired and copy-cat. Again, I love art, but do some research before you slam the competition for something Ms. Hamilton is herself, i.e. pretty predictable.
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oh my... anticipation...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NwP3wes…

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