Guggenheim = The Suck


I went to the Guggenblowmen museum last night as part of some school organized trip.  I like to think of myself as one who enjoys artistic merit, as well as a proponent of E.M. Foster's notion of "art for art's sake", but this place was simply too ridiculous.  The featuring exhibit was a collection of David Smith sculptures,  including notable ones such as:
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"Fancy Park Bench sans Back"
Cubit

  "The Glueing Together of 6 Thingies"
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"The Game With The Blocks and Outlines That I Was Forced to Play In Pre School"
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 BBQ Tongs Holder From Ikea - "BJJØRSTIG"

Oh, and the whole hoopla over how the building is some kind of "innovative artistic triumph of the modern noveau architectural movement", I hate to say it, but uh, it seems to me that Frank Loyd Wright took a day off on this one and simply took the oldest building concept ever and inverted it....
Babel

Artist Rendition of the Tower of Babel... circa OLD!





Rotate 180 Degrees
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Voila!  I can be an architect too!


And despite displaying items that are better suited for an Ikea out in Jersey somewhere, the biggest peeve I have w/ the Guggenheim is the fact that an admissions ticket is $18, while a block away the much larger and more diverse Metropolitan Museum of Art is effectively free! (Well, they have a recommended ticket price, but you pay what you want!  What an amazing concept that should immediately and universally applied to all other goods and services)   So basically they're selling the same thing --- art, culture and the museum going experience --- right next to each other, yet at completely different prices!  This is as ridiculous as when one sees two gas stations next-door  to each other charging different rates!  Ugh, forces of economics and the "invisible hand": thwarted.


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