Who Dares Disturb My Slumber?
*cue eerie theremin sounds--figure comes towards you slowly in FLASH animation--surfers faint dead away at their keyboards*
SEE IT TODAY1 at the Nasher Sculpture Center2 website, a Flash-and-popuphell extravaganza declared by this weblog to be Gratuitously Dynamic Website of the Week.3 1. Okay, there's no theremin, but the figure does come towards you from the back of a "virtual gallery" in dramatic, ever-enlarging stages. The sculpture, Willem de Kooning's Clamdigger (1972), introduces Abstract Expressionist subjectivity to the human figure in three dimensions and is one of Count Floyd's favorite artworks.
2. Housing the Raymond and Patsy Nasher sculpture collection, Dallas, TX. 3. This weblog is not responsible if you become lost in the Nasher site and are unable to navigate back to this URL. Thanks to Bill Schwarz, who inadvertently provided this target. |
what's the matter? don't you find your experience of ugly modern sculpture enhanced by having it fly towards you in a so-called virtual gallery space?
One of my first published articles, for a Dallas zine years ago, poked fun at the Nasher collection: The Nashers bought art as if they were young professionals ordering sushi. "Four by David Smith? That ought to do it." "I think we have enough constructivism to hold us." "Buy more Giacomettis because they're skinnier."
Etc. Ray tantalized the Dallas Museum for years over who would get what I called "world's heaviest art collection." Egomaniacal shopping center magnate to the end (though he's still alive), he finally built his own vanity-monument to house the collection on the lot right next door to the Dallas Museum. After years of destroying the physical landscape as a commercial developer, now he's stinking up cyberspace with a Pop-up art collection. (The curator of the collection is a nice guy, though.)
Thanks for the phrase "so-called virtual gallery space"--I added it to the main post with quote marks to indicate the so-called.
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*cue eerie theremin sounds--figure comes towards you slowly in FLASH animation--surfers faint dead away at their keyboards*
SEE IT TODAY1 at the Nasher Sculpture Center2 website, a Flash-and-popuphell extravaganza declared by this weblog to be Gratuitously Dynamic Website of the Week.3
1. Okay, there's no theremin, but the figure does come towards you from the back of a "virtual gallery" in dramatic, ever-enlarging stages. The sculpture, Willem de Kooning's Clamdigger (1972), introduces Abstract Expressionist subjectivity to the human figure in three dimensions and is one of Count Floyd's favorite artworks.
2. Housing the Raymond and Patsy Nasher sculpture collection, Dallas, TX.
3. This weblog is not responsible if you become lost in the Nasher site and are unable to navigate back to this URL. Thanks to Bill Schwarz, who inadvertently provided this target.
- tom moody 3-22-2004 4:57 am
what's the matter? don't you find your experience of ugly modern sculpture enhanced by having it fly towards you in a so-called virtual gallery space?
- sally mckay 3-22-2004 6:35 pm
One of my first published articles, for a Dallas zine years ago, poked fun at the Nasher collection:
Etc. Ray tantalized the Dallas Museum for years over who would get what I called "world's heaviest art collection." Egomaniacal shopping center magnate to the end (though he's still alive), he finally built his own vanity-monument to house the collection on the lot right next door to the Dallas Museum. After years of destroying the physical landscape as a commercial developer, now he's stinking up cyberspace with a Pop-up art collection. (The curator of the collection is a nice guy, though.)- tom moody 3-22-2004 7:36 pm
Thanks for the phrase "so-called virtual gallery space"--I added it to the main post with quote marks to indicate the so-called.
- tom moody 3-22-2004 7:59 pm