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Sunday, January 21, 2007
If Bill Gates says it's cool...
Who are we to differ? A recent AP story did have to lead with this billionaire celebrity opinion on a public park, which seems kind of besides the point, right? I mean, what does Bill Gates need with a public park? He's a civic minded person, so that's nice, but in this case there were plenty of celebrities who actually donated works for the new Seattle Olympic Sculpture Park, including his famous ex-colleague Paul Allen. The sculpture garden features a Serra (as per this fine pix by Genjo), a Calder, Oldenburg, Bourgeois, etc. Not a "general-on-a-horse" among them, but it doesn't sound like there's too much that's too adventurous. But the Bourgeois is at least done in response to an interesting commission - a bequest from Stu Smailes that his $1 million be used to create a "realist nude male figure". See the article from The Associated Press. Or check out the Flickr pool. We posted on this park in Feb, and linked to the Park's website.Labels: sculpture park, USA
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