| ▲ | philipallstar 2 hours ago |
| > “We were all standing around squealing, ‘Look, there’s our museum!’ ‘There’s the Met; there’s the Guggenheim,’” Sherman recalls. “It’s this great act of recognition, and then it’s also witnessing [Macken’s] creativity, how he made this complex architecture out of very humble materials.” Blue collar, dedicated, skillful effort over decades immediately co-opted by nonsense-spewer. |
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| ▲ | avidruntime 2 hours ago | parent [-] |
| co-opted? The last paragraph of the article suggests this was quite literally the artist's goal: > “One of the reasons Joe is so insistent that every single building is here is because he would never want someone to come and see it and not be able to find where they live and see their story,” Sherman tells Artnet. Its not like they broke into his shop and shared his model with the world before he could, it is currently an exhibition at the Museum of the City of New York. |
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| ▲ | philipallstar 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | > co-opted? The last paragraph of the article suggests this was quite literally the artist's goal: Unless the person quite literally lives in that museum, I don't think "quite literally" is in any way accurate. > Its not like they broke into his shop and shared his model with the world before he could, it is currently an exhibition at the Museum of the City of New York. I'm not saying they did. I'm saying what they said was a load of rubbish. | | |
| ▲ | drakythe 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | > I'm not saying they did. I'm saying what they said was a load of rubbish. I disagree. Employees often take some form of "ownership" over their buildings, especially in long term and public education facing facilities like museums. It isn't difficult to understand why they said "there is our museum". Human language connotes ideas as often as it does specifics, and there is nothing rubbish about that. |
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| ▲ | krustyburger 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Nor is it nonsense to acknowledge how cool it is to recognize your own building or that he was able to accomplish the project without expensive materials. Spew is also quite the verb to use. What an all-around unpleasant comment. |
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