tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6993287630738849371.post5077098413036598055..comments2023-10-26T07:32:53.934-04:00Comments on Larry Muffin at home: to visit or not to visitLaurenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03297393116796129135noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6993287630738849371.post-17065302926274709462014-12-22T09:58:05.236-05:002014-12-22T09:58:05.236-05:00This is sad news. You nailed it though about peopl...This is sad news. You nailed it though about people not seeing the beauty around them. I haven't been to Ottawa but can assure you it's a museum I would not miss. The un-enlighten miss so much by not seeking and enjoying the beauty available to them. Fearsome Beardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12338879036238705400noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6993287630738849371.post-89425709349480992362014-12-21T21:41:32.301-05:002014-12-21T21:41:32.301-05:00We do have a Bush-Cheney Like government at the mo...We do have a Bush-Cheney Like government at the moment, 2015 is an election year so we hope for change, though I am not that hopeful. <br />Anyway during your time in Ottawa you will be spending a lot of times at the gallery not to worry.Laurenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03297393116796129135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6993287630738849371.post-21509002835873471252014-12-21T17:04:00.758-05:002014-12-21T17:04:00.758-05:00Yuck
You make it sound like Canada is more like th...Yuck<br />You make it sound like Canada is more like the USA every day. I hoped for better. <br />Soon Canada will have the awful situation of remonstrating when they are mistaken for Yanks, yet be unable to come up with any real difference. Bad this. Ur-spohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04237644452200889946noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6993287630738849371.post-32168882672739362242014-12-21T15:43:53.543-05:002014-12-21T15:43:53.543-05:00One of the difficulties of Ottawa is that we are s...One of the difficulties of Ottawa is that we are sandwiched between two big centres Montreal and Toronto, these large metropolitan centres can attract more people and a larger population means more interests. Ottawa being a Capital tends to be very Bourgeois and conservative in its outlook. People like what is safe and not challenging. Amuse the masses, Offer mediocrity seems to be the motto of this town. Laurenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03297393116796129135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6993287630738849371.post-63099285918016202472014-12-21T11:51:47.819-05:002014-12-21T11:51:47.819-05:00The NGC does need a shot in the arm and it needs t...The NGC does need a shot in the arm and it needs to ask what is it that people want to see in a National Museum. I know that 2017 the new Curator of Canadian Art Katerina Atanassova is remodelling the gallery showing Canadian art and let's hope it goes beyond the Group of 7 and Emily Carr.<br />I agree fresh air is required and better marketing. Laurenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03297393116796129135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6993287630738849371.post-68800355262425165242014-12-21T11:36:22.835-05:002014-12-21T11:36:22.835-05:00My Rare One and I went to the Pop Life exhibit and...My Rare One and I went to the Pop Life exhibit and she was VERY shocked by the sexually explicit Jeff Koons photos. She still gets all wound up about it. Not for the reasons you might think but because she was outraged that Justice Lori Douglas could be subjected to a disciplinary hearing for nude photos when the bloody National Gallery of Canada was showing the same kind of things in public.<br /><br />You know what's big in Edmonton? Hockey art. I suspect that won't surprise you. But seriously, the National Gallery has to stage more exhibits that show images reflecting ordinary Canadian life back to Canadians. I went to a retrospective at the Winnipeg Art Gallery two or three years ago of the art of the Ukrainian-Canadian artist William Kurelek. He depicted very ordinary scenes of life on the prairies. That exhibit was friggin packed all the time. And yet the next year they brought in the traveling Botero exhibit (which I saw in Calgary and loved) and Winnipeggers gave it the total cold shoulder.<br /><br />The National Gallery should hire me as its next curator ferchrissakes.Debra She Who Seekshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01845703092794695023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6993287630738849371.post-30868691441941746842014-12-21T10:42:24.053-05:002014-12-21T10:42:24.053-05:00It’s sad to read that people don’t flock to exhibi...It’s sad to read that people don’t flock to exhibits for Monet and Renoir. Thankfully, the Denver Art Museum doesn’t have that problem. It seems like all of the big exhibits are packed with visitors. I think that is because our museum is a tourist attraction that draws from the surrounding states. The nearest competition is in San Francisco, Los Angeles or Kansas City.<br /><br />I hate when people make statements that a their five year old could paint. Well, if they could, why didn’t they do it? Ignorant critics don’t understand the balance of color and positive and negative spaces. These critics need to be replaced with people who actually understand what they are reviewing.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com