http://www.boston.com/news/globe/living/articles/2007/09/22/judge_rules_mass_moca_can_show_controversial_unfinished_installation/
I was disappointed that this had been cancelled and wasn't aware of the case until now. So what are the ethics of going to see it if MassMOCA puts it on display?
― gabbneb, Monday, 24 September 2007 21:22 (eighteen years ago)
i guess it's moot now
http://www.massmoca.org/event_details.php?id=316
― gabbneb, Wednesday, 26 September 2007 00:39 (eighteen years ago)
any more detail on the piece/background? this makes it sound like a budgetary thing.
― patita, Wednesday, 26 September 2007 00:54 (eighteen years ago)
ok, their blog has a nice breakdown of events: http://blog.massmoca.org/?p=43
― patita, Wednesday, 26 September 2007 01:02 (eighteen years ago)
the artist and his lawyers should have known they didn't have a leg to stand on. the answer here, as abided by by thousands of american artists before him, is to slap "alan smithee" on your piece and walk away.
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 26 September 2007 01:05 (eighteen years ago)
well, he's Swiss. and he's apparently using things from the court filings in new artworks.
― patita, Wednesday, 26 September 2007 01:08 (eighteen years ago)
It's kind of hard for me to get into artists that require you to get an RSS feed of their life to understand what's going on in their work (see: that Eminem song where he told his mom off for writing that song about him no-one would know about had it not been reported).
― Abbott, Wednesday, 26 September 2007 04:38 (eighteen years ago)
http://www.slate.com/id/2174656/nav/tap3/
― gabbneb, Thursday, 27 September 2007 18:16 (eighteen years ago)
i saw/crawled through one of buchel's installations, and it was incredible. i'm glad that it's being taken down without public viewing. how could one get any sense of buchel's art from a contextless display of raw materials?
― lauren, Thursday, 27 September 2007 18:56 (eighteen years ago)