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Saturday, July 18, 2009

Visual Art Turning It Over

Posted by Jen Graves on Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 9:13 AM

The best thing about art spaces is that it they move. Seattle Art Museum's new building had the same art up in the double-height contemporary gallery for months, and it was quite nice: a Warhol Rorschach, an Anselm Kiefer, an Ed Ruscha.

But now it's new (left to right, Sam Gilliam's Untitled, 1973, gift of the estate of Linda Farris; Dan Webb's Shroud, 2008, Mark Tobey Estate Fund and gift of Greg Kucera and Larry Yocom; and Gabriel Kuri's Quick Standards, 2005, gift of the Contemporary Collectors Forum):

Also new in the gallery but unseen in the photograph is work by Rashid Johnson and Elizabeth Murray.

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When I talked to one of the guard about the Kiefer, he said that they'd tried taking it down once before but so much of the shellacced ash broke off that they gave up and let it be. I guess they're finally tired of having so much grey in that room.

Posted by Garth B on July 18, 2009 at 10:42 AM

Yeah, but the Do Ho Suh piece (Some/One) is still there - and the guards will still be yelling at kids for standing on the artwork.

I can't wait for the cars to go. I was so over them six months after they went up. Rumor has it that they will come down this year, and something that sits on the floor (several somethings) will get installed in the main foyer instead.

Posted by arts&letters on July 19, 2009 at 12:26 PM

God I hope you're right about the cars, Eleanor. I was over them the instant I saw them.

It took seeing them installed in a different space for me to have even the faintest idea that they are supposed to look like they are exploding. At SAM, they just look like a big tacky mess.

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