NO JOKE! New York apparently got tired of looking at listening to this thing. Some rich person bought this thing by a popular Spanish sculptor Jaume Plensa. Plensa created the forty-four feet tall monolithic sculpture, ” Echo” for Madison Square Park, NY. He claims it depicts a[...]
Posts Tagged ‘art’
April 1st, 2014 - 9:08 am § in Uncategorized
SAM Gets More Free Stuff to Put in its Sculpture Garden!
March 6th, 2014 - 3:46 pm § in The Ave Scene
Wonderful Urban Art
Last night I went to a puboic meeting about Seattle’s new waterfront. It has some good points BUT … the artist chosen for the pubic art in Pioneer Square is Buster Simpson, Seattle practitioner of the boring Public Decor approach to art. This AM. I came across something much better in an[...]
March 2nd, 2014 - 3:08 am § in Misc.
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: Life after death
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Philip Seymour Hoffman’s character may be digitally recreated for final scenes of “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay.” Lionsgate was not immediately available for comment.[...]
February 21st, 2014 - 8:45 am § in The Ave Scene
From the Scot: Publicle Popsicles
From The Scot Seattle’s well-known for having some of the finest public art. And one of its more recent pieces of public art has turned out to be one of its most popular and most photographed – and it can be found right outside my apartment block on 4th and Blanchard! It is, of course, […[...]
The Strange World Of Expensive Art
Media and blogs are filled with debates about raising the minimum wage to $10.10/hr (federal) or $15.00/hr (local). Conservatives argue that paying such prodigious sums to workers who sweep floors, fry burgers, and empty bedpans would end life on this planet as we know it. In May 2013, the media r[...]