Visual Art Jan 18, 2007 at 4:00 am

Thanks to Seattle Art Museum, the Last Million-Dollar Downtown Waterfront Views Are Free—the New Olympic Sculpture Park Has No Admission Charge, No Walls, and No Intention to Be Stodgy (Which Is Radical, Even if the Art Isn't)

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I recently returned to Seattle for a visit after moving to the east coast 2 years ago. One of the things I was looking forward to seeing most was the new sculpture park. What a dissapointment. Embarrassing really. Someone please tell me that the (dozens of?) oversize traffic cones are just placeholders for future art installations, and people of Seattle don't consider them the actual art.
The nude is horrific, nothing against the concept, but the way it was done seems criminal. Stu should have commissioned the artwork himself. The eagle didn't fit Volunteer park and really, c'mon. oh well. And the typwritter eraser is an exact copy of the one at the Hirshorn Smithsonian Sculpture park in DC. Was this just to prove that Seattle hasn't had an original thought since 1962? if then.
I know it's easy to criticise, but leaving that park I felt there was really nothing positive to say about it, other than maybe for the landscaping.
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How terribly bland. If the intention of the art was to be nauseatingly boring and sterile, it sure achieved it.

Please wait...

and remember to be decent to everyone
all of the time.

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