why don't your check out TMNK aka "nobody" on ebay. His art is sosic 5150 and will be in MOMA one day.
madonna | 01.01.08 - 2:16 pm | #

Yup. It does.
Have a nice holiday, and thanks for letting me vent. About the apotheosis, etc.
Rick
rick | Homepage | 12.24.05 - 1:45 am | #

Hi Mark,

I bounced over to your site from another (Blogcabin--nice cup). It was interesting to read about your trip to MOMA. I must say the "new MOMA" is a boundless heartbreak and a big bubbaboo to me. MOMA used to actually be a museum of "modern art". It is now a hyper commercial peon to contemporary art and big time crowd pleasing--even compared to other museums these days. I think it's lost its integrity--though that process started years before the recent renovation. Had you ever visited the pre-2000 MOMA? It was great. Toward the end of the 90s there was some curatorial change and it degenerated into the New York Museum of Picasso and Duchamp--with a Mondrian room to break up the monotony. The permanent collection is truly great, and they do have some of the old (and great) chestnuts actually hanging up. But I know what they have in the attic (I used to work around the block for years). Where are the Soutines now? the Rouaults? the Noldes? Where is the modern art? Who cares about technique?! Give me the sublime back!I may have gone a little too far last summer when I commented at a lecture at Drew University that the new MOMA is "the apotheosis of the the New York art scene's many crimes against the Western Intellectual Tradition" (it was my graduating class' 25th reunion this year-creak--so I get to be a curmudgeon). But walking through the new MOMA, I felt a great loss--not that I expected anything more or less. In 2001 I was in a group show that included Larry Salander, owner of Salander O'Reilly Gallery on 79th street. We were all representational painters. At Larry's insistence, we did the show in Philly! The New York art scene is that big a mess (have you read The Painted Word by Tom Wolfe? An early indictment of "the scene" that I truly enjoy). Well, a trip to the MOMA is a chance to see some great stuff, and I'm sure you did see some. But I don't think it's a great museum anymore. The Art Institute of Chicago, last I checked, has a better museium of modern art. So does the Met in New York--and the Barnes in Philadelphia. There's your sublime! Does the Internet allow comments this long and sloppy on blogs, by the way? Let's see.
Rick
rick | Homepage | 12.24.05 - 1:41 am | #

Merry Christmas!!!
Lisa | Homepage | 12.23.05 - 9:35 am | #

Did you forget your real mission?
Do you think we could steal any of that stuff or not?
richships | Homepage | 12.23.05 - 3:32 am | #

Cool, I can't wait to read about your meeting with an artist...

I like Elizabeth Murray's stuff, but it is a bit overstimulating and might very well be better to experience one piece at a time. Good art is like that, I think. Sometimes I find going to big museums exhausting, not only from the amount of walking I'm doing but also from the amount of great art I'm experiencing.
Lisa | Homepage | 12.22.05 - 10:41 pm | #