Wednesday, April 9, 2008
Tuesday, April 8, 2008
Murakami Exhibit in my neck of the woods
This past Saturday was first Saturday at the Brooklyn museum and the open publics first and cheapest opportunity to view the much controversied Murakami exhibit. Murakami work itself though provocative is not the focus of the controversy rather the artists affiliation to Luis Vutton and the label collaboration with his recent museum exhibition.
the night before 1st Sat was the the much ado Brooklyn Museum ball an astire event that invites all the museums highest contributing patrons and other big money locals to a night of dining, art, and feeling superior.
my roomie has a paid internship at the museum so i hear often through the grape vine about these event and the who haa that goes on in preparation of them.
she give me daily updates on the weeks of preparation and installation. had i not heard these tales perhaps i wouldn't have such a hard opinion of the artist.
But the man has an entourage, they walk in a v shaped formation and scurry at his whiny demands like mice in paint splatter converse. His history reads like a textbook for douchebag art world cliches. The intermingling and cleaver minipulation of marketing, pop cultural, pop art and western cultures fondness of eastern culture when it is either sexualized or cutie-fied makes for a power cocktail for success that Murakami and his cohorts are just drinking.
Murakami recently designed Kanye West album cover and kanye return the favor with a performance at first night. a great treat for the community and a nice bit of street cred to deflect from Murakami other homies at Louis Vutton,
Vutton involvement in the night and there set up of a faux canal street back alley bootleg bag set up selling the real deal. in a vein fashionista attempt at social commentary that really only gave excuse to sell the over price hallow status symbols within the halls of legitimate artistry.
the other reason the ball got so much attention, attention in the form of protesters. whom were highly offended by the museum to tbetrayal he community by honoring Bruce Rattner the developer which threaten to deface Brooklyn landscape with an unnecessary and very unwanted stadium.
Murakami has been often described as a modern day Warhol. Like Warhol i am fond of his work but suspect the man to be an opportunist rather then an artist with legitimate claims to work driving to make an really statement.
I'd buy ( as if i could afford it) cause its fun but like warhol, murakami is riding the coat tail of the naive art goers and trend followers with disposable income.
i hardly fault him for it though, like the factory before him it kind of seems like a fun place to be the center of.
http://video.on.nytimes.com/?fr_story=97318d8fc5523d7c512e8daf608b357a884ac908
my roomie has a paid internship at the museum so i hear often through the grape vine about these event and the who haa that goes on in preparation of them.
she give me daily updates on the weeks of preparation and installation. had i not heard these tales perhaps i wouldn't have such a hard opinion of the artist.
But the man has an entourage, they walk in a v shaped formation and scurry at his whiny demands like mice in paint splatter converse. His history reads like a textbook for douchebag art world cliches. The intermingling and cleaver minipulation of marketing, pop cultural, pop art and western cultures fondness of eastern culture when it is either sexualized or cutie-fied makes for a power cocktail for success that Murakami and his cohorts are just drinking.
Murakami recently designed Kanye West album cover and kanye return the favor with a performance at first night. a great treat for the community and a nice bit of street cred to deflect from Murakami other homies at Louis Vutton,
Vutton involvement in the night and there set up of a faux canal street back alley bootleg bag set up selling the real deal. in a vein fashionista attempt at social commentary that really only gave excuse to sell the over price hallow status symbols within the halls of legitimate artistry.
the other reason the ball got so much attention, attention in the form of protesters. whom were highly offended by the museum to tbetrayal he community by honoring Bruce Rattner the developer which threaten to deface Brooklyn landscape with an unnecessary and very unwanted stadium.
Murakami has been often described as a modern day Warhol. Like Warhol i am fond of his work but suspect the man to be an opportunist rather then an artist with legitimate claims to work driving to make an really statement.
I'd buy ( as if i could afford it) cause its fun but like warhol, murakami is riding the coat tail of the naive art goers and trend followers with disposable income.
i hardly fault him for it though, like the factory before him it kind of seems like a fun place to be the center of.
http://video.on.nytimes.com/?fr_story=97318d8fc5523d7c512e8daf608b357a884ac908
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