No I don’t. But I do see a lot of bad, bad art. Terrible, horrible, painful art. You may like it, and that’s fine, but every time I see some of this art a little part of my soul dies. But I don’t get to point fingers in my blog, because that would get me in all kinds of trouble. So, if I don’t have something nice to say, I don’t say anything at all.
If I did, I’d have a meltdown and it wouldn’t be nearly as cogent as Philip Kennicott’s review of the “Art for Obama” book that starts with the sentence, “It isn’t meant to be a gloomy or creepy book.”
Point is, when it comes to local art, I only blog about work that I like or otherwise find interesting. I miss a lot of art that I’m sure I’d like, so silence doesn’t mean that I dislike work, it just means I haven’t seen it or I forgot to blog about it. (Equally likely occurrences). I have no problem telling someone to their face why their art simply isn’t my cup of tea, but it would be unseemly, unprofessional, and other words that are prefixed with -un to make fun of them.
But I digress…
Etsy, in addition to bring a world of awesome into our lives, also brings us a world of wtf??? Thanks to regretsy, I can get all of the snark out of my system vicariously.
So in a perfect world would you be able to point and crappy art and say “hey that’s crappy” or will there just be no crappy art?
I swear I keep approving this comment and it keeps going back in the moderation queue. Hmmm. This is a tough question. If it was a truly perfect world (in that I ruled it) there would be no crappy art.
In another year my term on the artomatic board will be up and I will no longer have to endure a lot of grief if I insult someone’s art in print and then all bets are off. Being on the board of an arts organization doesn’t disqualify one from expressing opinions, per se, but I just lack the extra energy to deal with some of the Drama that goes along with said pronouncements. And really, I try to keep the whole “eye of the beholder” thing in mind, but then I look at the stuff on regretsy and, well….