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1
That's cute. So sorry Ebsworth's company - travel services for people so rich they want to tour the world without having to see or speak to anybody but their own kind - suffered in the downturn. He still got the huge tax writeoff of the pledge he made to SAM a couple years ago, hope that's some consolation.
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Plus, not to beat a rich Republican horse, but he does NOT live in Seattle - he lives in an Edward Hopper-encrusted prestige-architected house in teeny-tiny Eastside fortress town Hunts Point, whose own police force guarantees the only poor person any resident has to see is a domestic servant.
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I think it's a wonderful trade .. our region has loads of great art in private collections, that the public can see only once in a blue moon. We have little in the way of architecture, the main library downtown, the chapel at Seattle U, and, I'm begrudgingly adding EMP to the list.. that is pretty much it for notable buildings. I've long been a fan of Ando .. and think a chapel by him in the area would be great! Hopefully it would have public hours.
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I'm sorry, but in addition to Gus's concerns I think woodland chapels, no matter how spiritual, are the opposite of what architecture is all about. This is an anti-urban project. Hunts Point loses a painting; Bellevue gains another enemy of mankind.
5
Yeah, I sure do hate it when people go to another country, but want to keep their own customs and language.

Sorta like every illegal immigrant in this country.
6
@5, not your finest moment. Ebsworth's company doesn't keep rich traveling Americans away from people with other customs and languages, it makes sure they only ever have to meet RICH people with other customs and languages...and their servants.
7
And then maybe he can trade the chapel for a giant red paperclip.
8
UH....Jen....HELLO!!! Maybe you should dig a little deeper into this issue. Rumor has it that he is allegedly on the outs with SAM and the great masterpiece the Hopper CHOP SUEY will not be coming here after all! If true this would be the third time he's supposedly given this painting and backed out( St Louis and National Gallery). Shameful manipulation of press and institution for personal gain or bad management on SAM's part? What is it about SAM and the lack of support -financially and with donations- that isn't working?
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Jen, good article, thanks.
If I were you, I'd block this comments section
and let these guys go grind their axes elsewhere.
10
#6- please, do tell- what WAS his finest moment?

Inquiring minds want to know.

Cause I find his moments pretty much all the same, but then, what do I know- I am just a cat...
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Moving here from Ft. Worth, TX I expected much more from the NW.

In two blocks you have The Kimbell Art Museum (Louis Kahn) and The Modern Art Museum (Tadao Ando) both with collections that are stellar.

This doesn't mention the Amon Carter which is nice in its own right if you like Western Art - but also includes one of Avedon's greatest commissions.

But if we can't fund our schools, can we dream of the visual arts? I'm rambling.. art and stuff.
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"ax to grind", Mr. Bartlett? Ever wonder why SAM doesn't own a Picasso? Or that school children or students of Art HIstory cannot go there and see a great European painting of the 17th, 18th, & 19th centuries? No Van Gogh landscape ,Degas ballerinas, Fragonard caprices, Van Eyck madonna, Monet water lilies, Cezanne bathers, Turner sunset, Matisse Odalisque, Rembrandt portrait, etc., etc.?
Granted these are hard to come by-obviously-but the growth and wealth of the last 75 years in this town in no way matches the current looks of Seattle Art Museum.

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