2002-06-01 - 12:02 a.m.
BRETT HAMIL REVIEWS SEATTLE ART MUSEUM
my girlfriend and i went to the Seattle art museum
today, i saw some neat
stuff--they had a john currin painting that i liked
(tho i'm sure he's just
as smug and ironic as the rest, at least he really
paints) also a bunch of
morris graves, a very nice hockney portrait in pencil,
archipenko sculpture,
some other stuff, a guston that was kinda neat....
then of course they had
the one obligatory shite art pc, some dumb bitch
videotaped herself putting
on makeup in front of a two-way mirror every night
before she went to work
as a waitress for like a month and then played it back
on two video monitors
facing each other--of course the monitors were
decorated with fake roses to
drive the laborious and insultingly tedious idea
home--real fucking deep.
what are these curators thinking? are they really so
blinded by the boringly
obvious and mundane? yes they are. no doubt about it.
