Comments on: The public-art debate revs up

By: jay

jay — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 21:57:34 +0000

Anybody know what the large piece under the north side of the cambie street bridge is? It’s next to the b-ball court/seawall, two large steel grid sturctures surrounded by a chain-link fence.

By: SV

SV — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 21:52:59 +0000

Is there a word that describes someone who is angry and smug?

By: Blaffergassted

Blaffergassted — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 19:12:52 +0000

This is the inevitable result of the city discarding its ever-usefull Device to Root Out Evil!

By: Darcy McGee

Darcy McGee — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 19:10:52 +0000

LP, you need to work on a sense of humour…cold water’s comment seems pretty clearly a bit of a joke to me.

By: LP

LP — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 15:47:33 +0000

cold water, you need to stick your head under some really cold water to shock yourself into reality.

people talk about shit all the time, sometimes it’s politics, sometimes its useless anonymous people on blogs that think their opinions mean something.

the old saying that “as long a you’re being talked about, is a good thing”, doesn’t hold true in this age.

17 posts including this one, many from the same people arguing the same beleaguered points. Any other topic draws far more comments, art as a topic is dead to the masses.

big deal.

btw, you should try and find a pill for that smugness I hear to goes well with that beverage you like so much.

By: cold water

cold water — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 14:56:27 +0000

mwahahah! The conspiracy has worked! We have people talking about art! mwahahahaha!

By: KH

KH — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 07:18:53 +0000

Seems to me that the biennale is doing exactly what art should do – spark discussion.

By: Bill Lee

Bill Lee — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 02:34:51 +0000

Art, this isn’t art, it’s installations from a commercial gallery who can’t find enough insecure suckers.

This biennale is the small town version of the commercial and interior designers Art Basel
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_Basel and see the Lond0n Daily Telegraph article mentioned in a link there for what it is really about.

If this city wanted public art, they would require more than 1 percent dedication and they would require that a student (high school, BC College, etc.) be added to an additional commission in material or form that doesn’t have to last forever.

Gerhard Juchum’s The Lovers II had to be forced unto the City grounds at Alexandra Park on 10th and Cambie by stealth overnight in 1973 before they accepted it.

The whole town is filled by bad Sunday painters pretending to be professional, artists who have relatives, and artists who can do, but won’t teach.

If this town liked art, city council would be sculpting once a week (various media), drawing in council meetings, arrange to have 537 West Broadway’s facade lit up, and ask for projects for a thousand traffic circles in the exurbs.

Public art? People don’t do art, they just press switches and take what is given to them.

Go to the library, or sit in the VAG bookstore or find their VAG library and skim Flash Art, Kunstzeitung, Juxtapoz, Frieze, and ARTnews among others. Reading 3-year-old issues will bring you up-to-date with the Emily Carr teachers.

By: Bill Lee

Bill Lee — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 02:11:51 +0000

Is this site popular because of the 417 references to erecctile drugs at the end?

Use Show Coding to show the underlying WordPress code. ( >View >Show Source or Ctrl-U in Firefox) to see the many pill web references. Use wordwrap so that they show en masse.

I use a different browser which allows me to see people and city councillors as they really are;-) Lizards, folks. Kitten-eating lizards. The 417 lines of erecctile references are a but much but I feel so invigorated.

Sorry to frighten you….

By: Denis

Denis — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 22:43:37 +0000

When passing by the Save on Foods Memorial arena in Victoria, you will see the strangest chunk of public art . And the taxpayers paid for it!!