June 13, 2006

The Ongoing Cuban Art Series: They Still Don't Get It

by Jerome du Bois

We're getting a lot of traffic from my latest posting on art and Cuba, "Cruelty in Color." I don't know why --our critics never contact us-- but it provides me with the opportunity to remind readers that this is the eighth posting on the subject, spanning more than two years. Here are the other seven, in order of appearance:

#1. Two Cubans: In Order Not To Forget

#2. Cargosy: Two More Cubans

#3. Toirac The Tame And The Tiempos Nuevos Series

#4. Over His Dead Body: Kathleen Vanesian, Neo-Colonialist

#5. Angel Delgado's Transgression

#6. The Prisons Behind Lisa Sette Gallery

#7. Sit Down, Don't Be Rockin' Kcho's Boat

And the idiocy continues. Last week George Moneo over at Babalu Blog posted a colloquy he had with the Victoria & Albert Museum about their Che / Korda photograph exhibit. The most disingenuous line from the curator:

from the V&A's curatorial standpoint, the interest lies purely in a particular design phenomenon.

As if they're talking about some corporate logo instead of a heartless murderer.

Posted by Jerome at June 13, 2006 09:15 PM | TrackBack