“If Seeing Nature is a sign of the times for art collecting, the future looks bleak, indeed,” writes Christiane Vauveros-Fauné on Artnet. He continues (emphasis mine):
As it is, the exhibition resembles a Kardashian shopping spree. It’s like Allen simply flipped through Janson’s History of Art, exclaiming, “I’ll have that, that, that and that!”
Zoiks! Viveros-Fauné, a writer for The Village Voice as well, really unleashes. Washington Post critic Philip Kennicott had words of his own for Allen recently.
It was almost ten years ago to the day that Annie Wagner and I wrote our double review of Allen’s very first attempt at presenting his private art collection in public. He did it at his Experience Music Project, in a black-box room where you had to watch a promotional video before you were let in.
Is it just us critics who find it, well, meh?
You can decide for yourself when Seeing Nature comes to Seattle Art Museum next year to great fanfare from the museum.
