Sunday, January 21, 2007
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So I went to the opening of the Olympic Sculpture Park (it was dark so most of my pictures are blurry). I have been anticipating this for months. I am a firm believer that Seattle needs more art spaces that look beyond the city's almost painful provincial artistic mentality and embrace national and international artists. Imay just be being snobbish or naive.
The opening was a complete success, if by success you mean a lot of people, I mean really a lot of people, wondering around. They had "live music and dancing" and "art projects for the kids". Two things that I generally don't like.
The "music tent" was set up right next too Richard Serra's Wake. So that the generators were almost touching the steel. It was a beyond tasteless placement of the tent. The music was of the typically safe and upbeat type. The singer was wearing one of those hats people make from balloons. And about hand draw "do not touch" signs were arranged throughout the piece. Couldn't they at least run up to Kinko's and printed something out?
I am terribly excited to go and see the park when i
t is not filled with buskers, strollers, sub-par family-friendly hip-hop bands, and strange fellows waving around Technicolor scarves.
