Date: Fri, 06 Sep 2002 14:56:43 -0700
From: John Young <jya-AT-pipeline.com>
Subject: Re: RHIZOME_RAW: "the art advances and the artisan recedes"


What's best about de-Musaked MOMA these days is its return to 
modest renovated housing, closer to its original temporary digs, than 
the real estate hi-brand architect gigantism it seeks to smother its 
art under -- to compensate avaricious curators and innumerable staff.

A couple of dozen not bad art works in Queens offers a decent
retrospective of Modern Art, and that's the way it should be.
Bury the curators and trusteee rooms and movie houses and
cabinets of gee-gaws in the cellar of the high-rise.

The grotesque media outpouring the museum nowadays
has ballooned into on 53rd Street, is one of the most wretched
hives off tawdry 5th Avenue.

Going to overfat MOMA is dispiriting, the crowded lines, the insolent
ticket sellers and guards, the simulated art trinkets, the dorm room
posters, the over-priced food court, more like an airport rip-off mall 
than a beguiling place to be sucked out of your mean streets despair
by a black magical work. 

No, nothingmore daring or dangerous ever happens in the Apple-ized 
MOMA, auto-narcotized by its rep with fat cats, but at least in Queens 
there's slight chance of being solaced while searching for the museum 
by a cab driver who pities your Take Me to Momma koan.


>How about The Solo Album from 1985? (Recorded at MOMA so maybe it's the
>right list after all?)
>
>-- Alastair Dickson, Stirling, Scotland
>-- <adickson-AT-stirmargrev.demon.co.uk>



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