what utter bullshit. i am exhausted by these singularly seattley shenanigans. for years, public land has been appropriated in this city for private capitalistic garbage. a secret? fire them all. start over.
So the review is all for show. Goodbye, free concerts on the lawn (a la KEXP). Hello, $20 admission tickets to a museum hardly anyone local will visit.
Deborah Daoust's (you spelled her last name wrong, Ms. Madrid) e-mail address is:
deborah.daoust@seattle.gov
E-mail her and let her know how you feel. It was public pressure that got the Seattle Center and Seattle Design Commission to open up the process to the public; maybe more pressure will force them to open it up some more.
It's a done deal - the rest is just window dressing. There is absolutely no reason to have a museum of glass in Seattle, as Tacoma beat them to that sillyness a decade ago. If it appears to be so ridiculous that no one would have even seriously brought it up at a committee meeting ("Glass museum?! How about an 'Airplane Museum' too! There's not one of those anywhere nearby!"), then there was certainly a back-room deal cut.
Any guesses as to why? So people with private collections of Chihuly junk, and are tired of looking at the boondoggle in their semi-formal solarium, can sell the piece to the "museum". Or "donate" it for a tax break, complete with grossly inflated appraisal.
You want a list of the deciders? Find out who has large collections of Chihuly glass they overpaid for 10-15 years ago. That "art" doesn't gain value, so now they are trying to find a new way to recoup the losses for their "investment". Solution: create a new demand for the stuff, by means of a bogus museum.
A complete list of C21 Committee Members can be found here.
If anyone's got the time, I suggest getting contact information for ALL of them, so everybody can send blanket letters/calls/emails to the entire bunch. I'll bet those NOT on the review committee will make it known very QUICKLY, and we can target those who are by a process of elimination.
@11 Unfortunately, his work actually does increase in value. The tiny "limited" edition pieces (so limited that there are thousands and thousands made for sale all around the world!) increase by ~$100 each year, automatically. I can only imagine how much the chandeliers and other bric-brac increase by. Ugh.
@14 "The tiny "limited" edition pieces (so limited that there are thousands and thousands made for sale all around the world!) increase by ~$100 each year, automatically"
Their names are:
Bill Gates
Paul Allen
Dale Chihulhy
... I wonder which "choice" they'll make for us?
They've made up their mind on their garish, tacky tourist trap.
deborah.daoust@seattle.gov
E-mail her and let her know how you feel. It was public pressure that got the Seattle Center and Seattle Design Commission to open up the process to the public; maybe more pressure will force them to open it up some more.
Any guesses as to why? So people with private collections of Chihuly junk, and are tired of looking at the boondoggle in their semi-formal solarium, can sell the piece to the "museum". Or "donate" it for a tax break, complete with grossly inflated appraisal.
You want a list of the deciders? Find out who has large collections of Chihuly glass they overpaid for 10-15 years ago. That "art" doesn't gain value, so now they are trying to find a new way to recoup the losses for their "investment". Solution: create a new demand for the stuff, by means of a bogus museum.
If anyone's got the time, I suggest getting contact information for ALL of them, so everybody can send blanket letters/calls/emails to the entire bunch. I'll bet those NOT on the review committee will make it known very QUICKLY, and we can target those who are by a process of elimination.
Just like Kinkaide, painter of light!