Friday, March 11, 2005
Friday, March 04, 2005
I submit
There is nothing better than a gallery opening.
I mean, aside from the fact that anyone can attend these things for the price of a crazy colored print shirt from any thrift store for like 2$ (they will assume you are an artist), there are also the benefits of FREE FOOD and most of the time WINE and/or BEER. Well and then there is the art as well. I mean ART. DOES IT GET ANY BETTER?! I submit that it does not. Usually there is some mediocre jazz playing as well, or some local combo which is sometimes pretty good.
I mean, you can stay there entertained, boozed and fed for like a couple of hours at least and it doesn't cost you a DIME. I've been to a lot of gallery openings in my time and what I am consistently surprised at is the fact that there are so FEW people at these things. I mean it takes a minimal amount of effort to find them. Most of the time you can simply go to a local coffee house or health food/organic grocer. And if you aren't into art then YOU SHOULD BE DAMNIT. Hell, if the bribe of food and drink doesn't get you there, nothing will. I mean what does the art world have to do to get the american football watching, talk show attending, TV addicted retarded american public out into the WORLD to see something that challenges they way in which they see the universe!?
I think that is part of the problem, either a) people don't understand any kind of art or it's purpose at all and are uncomfortable confronting something of which they are completely ignorant, or b) they find it hard to approach the world different from the way in which they have become accustomed.
Either way it's a crying shame.
I mean, aside from the fact that anyone can attend these things for the price of a crazy colored print shirt from any thrift store for like 2$ (they will assume you are an artist), there are also the benefits of FREE FOOD and most of the time WINE and/or BEER. Well and then there is the art as well. I mean ART. DOES IT GET ANY BETTER?! I submit that it does not. Usually there is some mediocre jazz playing as well, or some local combo which is sometimes pretty good.
I mean, you can stay there entertained, boozed and fed for like a couple of hours at least and it doesn't cost you a DIME. I've been to a lot of gallery openings in my time and what I am consistently surprised at is the fact that there are so FEW people at these things. I mean it takes a minimal amount of effort to find them. Most of the time you can simply go to a local coffee house or health food/organic grocer. And if you aren't into art then YOU SHOULD BE DAMNIT. Hell, if the bribe of food and drink doesn't get you there, nothing will. I mean what does the art world have to do to get the american football watching, talk show attending, TV addicted retarded american public out into the WORLD to see something that challenges they way in which they see the universe!?
I think that is part of the problem, either a) people don't understand any kind of art or it's purpose at all and are uncomfortable confronting something of which they are completely ignorant, or b) they find it hard to approach the world different from the way in which they have become accustomed.
Either way it's a crying shame.
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