Comments on: We need an art museum http://elginite.org/blog/2008/02/10/we-need-an-art-museum/ Fri, 18 May 2012 12:22:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: AquinasShrugged http://elginite.org/blog/2008/02/10/we-need-an-art-museum/#comment-47296 AquinasShrugged Wed, 06 May 2009 15:17:18 +0000 http://elginite.org/blog/2008/02/10/we-need-an-art-museum/#comment-47296 Having worked at an art museum I can tell you that Mr. Broad might be surprised to learn that only 5%-10% of any art museums work is on display at any given time. Having worked at an art museum I can tell you that Mr. Broad might be surprised to learn that only 5%-10% of any art museums work is on display at any given time.

]]> By: Paul http://elginite.org/blog/2008/02/10/we-need-an-art-museum/#comment-47288 Paul Tue, 05 May 2009 14:34:07 +0000 http://elginite.org/blog/2008/02/10/we-need-an-art-museum/#comment-47288 rm, thank you. Really. An outstanding piece of writing. You hit the nail dead center on the head. Your commentary needs greater distribution. Please send it to the Herald and Courier. They won't print it - it would be deemed offensive - but you put the onus on them for censuring truth and reality (redundant? isn't truth and reality the same thing - sadly no). The new mantra: sustainability. It has that generic good feel appeal to it - kind of like world peace. We're all for it! Except that it really doesn't mean ANYTHING. Something about rain barrels while ignoring how to sustain my every rising property tax ECC bond payments! The vote that really counts is the vote my feet register when I move out. They are unsustainably clueless. rm, thank you. Really.
An outstanding piece of writing. You hit the nail dead center on the head. Your commentary needs greater distribution. Please send it to the Herald and Courier. They won’t print it - it would be deemed offensive - but you put the onus on them for censuring truth and reality (redundant? isn’t truth and reality the same thing - sadly no).
The new mantra: sustainability. It has that generic good feel appeal to it - kind of like world peace. We’re all for it! Except that it really doesn’t mean ANYTHING. Something about rain barrels while ignoring how to sustain my every rising property tax ECC bond payments! The vote that really counts is the vote my feet register when I move out.
They are unsustainably clueless.

]]> By: rm http://elginite.org/blog/2008/02/10/we-need-an-art-museum/#comment-47285 rm Mon, 04 May 2009 21:15:34 +0000 http://elginite.org/blog/2008/02/10/we-need-an-art-museum/#comment-47285 In certain respects Elgin already has art museums, and they are displaying the work of some rather more sinister disciples of the Keith Haring school. The "Elgin atelier" of Mr. Haring's graffiti style, you see, involves gang symbols. Take the train to Chicago from Elgin's Big Timber Metra station and you will see one of the most impressive and colorful exhibits of gang graffiti in the Chicago area. Giant red devils, pitchforks, Latin crowns, stars... it's all there for our local gang expert Fran Cella to translate. It has recently gone up on the white building directly east of the station and certainly speaks eloquently to the "unique diversity" that so charms our new City Councilman Mike Warren and his promoter the Daily Herald. Hurry up and take your cameras because I can't imagine the building's owners will want this exhibit up much longer. Note, too, that this form of art education is not being administered to the residents of Elgin's east side who have become accustomed to All Things Ghetto. Instead, we are seeing that Unique Diversity is spreading faster than "swine flu" across the community. This particular show has gone up just across the tracks from the wretched apartments on Mark Avenue - an area within "Eagle Heights," the home base of the Sustainability Couple, the Kaptains. You know..., the folks who ignore all the real problems ordinary residents face and think Elgin's biggest challenge is reducing its "carbon footprint." And Kaptain is the High Panjandrum of the Elgin Community Network, another group of irrelevant, city-funded activists who prattle on endlessly about "sustainablity" while their neighborhoods descend into gang and foreclosure hell. He should be pleased to see that one of Elgin's most impressive new art museums has opened near his neighborhood. And he should invite Kiwanis Jeanette to an opening reception since she and her employer (the Chamber of Commerce)have played such a big part in making this sort of thing possible. In certain respects Elgin already has art museums, and they are displaying the work of some rather more sinister disciples of the Keith Haring school. The “Elgin atelier” of Mr. Haring’s graffiti style, you see, involves gang symbols.

Take the train to Chicago from Elgin’s Big Timber Metra station and you will see one of the most impressive and colorful exhibits of gang graffiti in the Chicago area. Giant red devils, pitchforks, Latin crowns, stars… it’s all there for our local gang expert Fran Cella to translate. It has recently gone up on the white building directly east of the station and certainly speaks eloquently to the “unique diversity” that so charms our new City Councilman Mike Warren and his promoter the Daily Herald. Hurry up and take your cameras because I can’t imagine the building’s owners will want this exhibit up much longer.

Note, too, that this form of art education is not being administered to the residents of Elgin’s east side who have become accustomed to All Things Ghetto. Instead, we are seeing that Unique Diversity is spreading faster than “swine flu” across the community. This particular show has gone up just across the tracks from the wretched apartments on Mark Avenue - an area within “Eagle Heights,” the home base of the Sustainability Couple, the Kaptains. You know…, the folks who ignore all the real problems ordinary residents face and think Elgin’s biggest challenge is reducing its “carbon footprint.” And Kaptain is the High Panjandrum of the Elgin Community Network, another group of irrelevant, city-funded activists who prattle on endlessly about “sustainablity” while their neighborhoods descend into gang and foreclosure hell. He should be pleased to see that one of Elgin’s most impressive new art museums has opened near his neighborhood. And he should invite Kiwanis Jeanette to an opening reception since she and her employer (the Chamber of Commerce)have played such a big part in making this sort of thing possible.

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