{"id":3839,"date":"2007-06-21T18:11:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-21T18:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=3839"},"modified":"2017-11-27T11:40:44","modified_gmt":"2017-11-27T17:40:44","slug":"ho-hum-art-curator-expect-to-make-squares-uncomfortable-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/21\/ho-hum-art-curator-expect-to-make-squares-uncomfortable-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Ho Hum: Art, Curator Expect to Make Squares Uncomfortable Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another art exhibit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/stltoday\/news\/stories.nsf\/stlouiscitycounty\/story\/66A77F5745AEFD10862573010010766A?OpenDocument\" target=\"_new\">exalts itself<\/a> in making the <i>hoi polloi<\/i> uncomfortable.  Just like the last untold number of &#8220;art&#8221; exhibits:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A risqu\u00e9, homoerotic art exhibit will open this weekend on a stretch of street in St. Louis best known as a haven for antique-seekers.<\/p>\n<p>Gallery owner Philip Hitchcock expects the &#8220;Body\/Building&#8221; display to unnerve a few people, but he hopes to accomplish more by challenging the status quo.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If people are uncomfortable with those images, and they ask themselves, &#8216;Why? What chord does that strike in me?&#8217; If they go that far, then as an artist and a curator, I have done my job,&#8221; Hitchcock said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I doubt I&#8217;d be uncomfortable with those images; instead, the whole concept strikes a chord of &#8220;Why bother?&#8221; in me.<\/p>\n<p>I prefer art to be evocative and uplifting.  That sort of thing takes insight into the human condition and talent.  Shocking me only requires the artistic equivalent of a Taser.  And guess which sort of thing I buy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another art exhibit exalts itself in making the hoi polloi uncomfortable. Just like the last untold number of &#8220;art&#8221; exhibits: A risqu\u00e9, homoerotic art exhibit will open this weekend on a stretch of street in St. Louis best known as a haven for antique-seekers. Gallery owner Philip Hitchcock expects the &#8220;Body\/Building&#8221; display to unnerve a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3839"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18009,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3839\/revisions\/18009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}