Friday, June 13, 2008
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Tuesday, June 10, 2008
June 10, 2008
Lucy Slivinski blew in from Chicago with a tractor and flatbed full of sculpture and began installing it on the southeast corrner of the new St. Cloud Library. Shortly after I took this picture, the local paper ran an online interview with the artist and a picture of the piece. And the local pundits had a field day. Here's a sampling (only negative ones because positive ones tend to be mushy):
What a dump, who in their right mind calls this art. Who are the idiots that ok'd this. Why didn't the money wasted on this go towards the tunnel from the library to lake george.
The City of St Cloud wastes $40k of the taxpayers dollars on a heap of junk that looks like a trash truck ran over a bicycle rack...
similar response to the "art" they put downtown about 35 years ago.... now it's a place for birds to relieve themselves. Anything can be considered art... to someone.... in this case... I'd have been just as happy to see them put up a hedge.
I don't really think it matters who likes it and who doesn't. I think they should have supported LOCAL artists! Why did we buy art from someone who doesn't even live in MN?
it turning into a junkyard…why do we try to please so few , most people think this kind of art is a joke! what a waste $40000 in books or computers would have been alot better
My favorite artist is Norman Rockwell...what the hell is this?..tail pipes?...Mr. Rockwell would have found this quite amusing...way too funny. You call this art?
What a bunch of junk. Way to augment what many people already are criticizing.
Monday, June 9, 2008
Sunday, June 8, 2008
Saturday, June 7, 2008
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Dec. 28, 2007
In the waning years of WW II, we were living in Rockville Center, Long Island, I was about 12 and dad was dying of a brain tumor. Mom said NYC was no place for a widow to bring up a child, so she packed us up and we took a train to her childhood home in Detroit Lakes Minnesota. That's where she met and married this widower. He was a clothing salesman and outdoorsman.
Dec. 27, 2007
Hamburger at Petes Place