tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8304928500646903522.post6193382881876844637..comments2024-03-28T18:32:05.933-04:00Comments on bensozia: The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Broad MuseumJohnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01037215533094998996noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8304928500646903522.post-54725997283215108832015-09-16T15:24:31.486-04:002015-09-16T15:24:31.486-04:00I love contemporary art; I linked in that post to ...I love contemporary art; I linked in that post to a dozen contemporary artists I admire. The Broad Museum does not represent anything like the range and depth of art being made in the world today. Do you object to the whole apparatus of criticism? Because expressing positive and negative opinions about art has been a mainstay of culture since Confucius and Plato.<br /><br />I don't have any particular beef with the Broads; it's their collection, and it's nice that they want to share it with the public. But it bothers me a great deal that so much of the contemporary art scene is dominated, as I see it, by spiritually vacuous glitz produced by clowns like Jeff Koons. Some of the artists I have in mind (e.g., Andy Warhol) would happily own up to producing spiritually vacuous glitz.<br /><br />Art is a very tough profession; there is savage competition among artists for the available money and attention. If I can shift the art world a tiny bit, and redirect even one dollar away from impressarios like Koons and toward any of the dozens of contemporary artists I admire, I would consider that a deed well done.Johnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01037215533094998996noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8304928500646903522.post-76828958139407065642015-09-16T12:46:45.267-04:002015-09-16T12:46:45.267-04:00Okay, we get it. You REALLY don't like contemp...Okay, we get it. You REALLY don't like contemporary art.<br /><br />...so what?<br /><br />Are you trying to say it doesn't deserve to be in museums? Are you trying to deride and insult people who DO like contemporary art? Are you trying to dictate what private individuals ought to be able to spend their personal fortunes on in the pursuit of art?<br /><br />Most comteporary art does very little for me - and yet, life goes on. I'm probably never going to visit the Broad museum, nor care for nor appreciate any part of the collection it houses. But someone somewhere absolutely will, and were the tables turned I would absolutely want to have the freedom and the opportunity to see and appreciate the art of my choice that they are being granted to enjoy.<br /><br />I can't find anything to fault with the Broads creating this museum. It's absurd and petty to criticize them in terms of their choice of taste, since taste is entirely subjective. Beyond that, having art in a museum accessible to the public is infinitely preferable to having it hidden away in some private collection - no matter whether I personally like that art or not.<br /><br />What exactly is your deeper point or argument with all this? Or did you write out a <b><i>4000 word</i></b> post just to repeatedly and passionately insult other people's sense of taste simply because it doesn't match your own?G. Verlorennoreply@blogger.com