Ear of the Beholder
Apr. 8th, 2007 01:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
webfarmerThe last time I was in NYC one of the things I did was tour the Guggenheim Museum with three friends. One of my friends had her MFA and was an artist herself.
We took the elevator up and wound our way down Frank Lloyd Wright's Midwestern finger to the rest of the boxy architecture of Manhattan (and, in some ways, to the art inside the Guggenheim). After passing some of Andy Warhol's faux commercial packaging, we happened on this stuffed goat with a bunch of little colored bits on the fur.
I looked at my MFA friend and said, in the way that I'm known to occasionally say things, "Now this is really good." At this point my friend burst into laughter. She said, "Oh, Dennis. I used to think this was so great when I was in school."
The conversation then went to who determined what was worthwhile in the art world. Fascinating and memorable day all around. As is this article. Thanks to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
irongall for the tip!
Pearls Before Breakfast - Washington Post
"A onetime child prodigy, at 39 Joshua Bell has arrived as an internationally acclaimed virtuoso.
Three days before he appeared at the Metro station, Bell had filled the house at Boston's stately Symphony Hall, where merely pretty good seats went for $100. Two weeks later, at the Music Center at Strathmore, in North Bethesda, he would play to a standing-room-only audience so respectful of his artistry that they stifled their coughs until the silence between movements.
But on that Friday in January, Joshua Bell was just another mendicant, competing for the attention of busy people on their way to work."
We took the elevator up and wound our way down Frank Lloyd Wright's Midwestern finger to the rest of the boxy architecture of Manhattan (and, in some ways, to the art inside the Guggenheim). After passing some of Andy Warhol's faux commercial packaging, we happened on this stuffed goat with a bunch of little colored bits on the fur.
I looked at my MFA friend and said, in the way that I'm known to occasionally say things, "Now this is really good." At this point my friend burst into laughter. She said, "Oh, Dennis. I used to think this was so great when I was in school."
The conversation then went to who determined what was worthwhile in the art world. Fascinating and memorable day all around. As is this article. Thanks to
irongall for the tip!Pearls Before Breakfast - Washington Post
"A onetime child prodigy, at 39 Joshua Bell has arrived as an internationally acclaimed virtuoso.
Three days before he appeared at the Metro station, Bell had filled the house at Boston's stately Symphony Hall, where merely pretty good seats went for $100. Two weeks later, at the Music Center at Strathmore, in North Bethesda, he would play to a standing-room-only audience so respectful of his artistry that they stifled their coughs until the silence between movements.
But on that Friday in January, Joshua Bell was just another mendicant, competing for the attention of busy people on their way to work."
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Date: 2007-04-09 07:32 pm (UTC)She interprets the situation differently from the Washington Post reporters... I thought you might find it interesting.
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Date: 2007-04-09 07:55 pm (UTC)