Lately I’ve noticed that there’s less art in corporate lobbies, and more fountains and plants. I wonder if it’s because those items are cheaper than art pieces, or less likely to draw a client’s ire.
A bank in Minneapolis used to feature local artists’ work in its lobby, until someone took offense at a ceramic sculpture of a grinning naked man. After that, all of the art was replaced by ficus trees.
Ersatz Lascaux
Lately I’ve noticed that there’s less art in corporate lobbies, and more fountains and plants. I wonder if it’s because those items are cheaper than art pieces, or less likely to draw a client’s ire.
A bank in Minneapolis used to feature local artists’ work in its lobby, until someone took offense at a ceramic sculpture of a grinning naked man. After that, all of the art was replaced by ficus trees.
Once I was told my whole show had to come down because of a single breast.
On another occasion I was not allowed to use the word “voyeur” on the radio while explaining an installation piece.
Was your show at a Baptist church? With all the nudes portrayed in museums, I can’t believe a gallery would go berserk over a single breast.
I guess giving the radio producer a short lecture on cultural criticism and the idea of the gazer and the object of the gaze wouldn’t have helped….
The show was in a Border’s Books cafe.
The interview took three takes because of “language”.