SFist: The Dreamer Deferred

aj

Tue, 25 Sep 2007 10:05:46 -0800

I'm disappointed I didn't see it. But really any Pepe art project is incomplete without one of his famous (infamous?) operas.

wsanders

Tue, 25 Sep 2007 09:55:18 -0800

We love hands on art. Back in the old days, when security was looser and anyone who didn't fit in wasn't immediately arrested as a terrorist, friends used to make junk sculptures and sneak them into the garden of the Houston Fine Arts Museum, just to see how long it would take to find them in the dumpster. There's GOT to be some of that going on in SF - art just for the hell of it - but it's hard to find under all the attitude sometimes.

guest

Tue, 25 Sep 2007 09:04:24 -0800

Cover the head with Nan Kempner's clothes. Now that would be art. And it would get that craptacular donor-fellating exhibit out of the DeYoung. Kill two birds with one stone. I can imagine the tagline now: That giant purple head, it sure was one stylish giant purple head!

City Dweller

Tue, 25 Sep 2007 08:23:39 -0800

Up with public art! Say, what if RecPark just put fences around the homeless encampments and declared them a ongoing performance art exhibit?

iris

Tue, 25 Sep 2007 07:24:56 -0800

Hell yeah, jwb! (and I am pro-Cupid's Bow, too, Brock.)

J

Tue, 25 Sep 2007 07:00:31 -0800

I thought the head was great! I was just as shocked to see it gone as I was to see it there in the first place. I think its a good thing when the city promotes the local arts community by allowing public installations like this, or the bandshell, or the mini-golf down on Hayes Green. It may not be the "best" art, but its not any worse than some of the permanant sculptures around the city. Hopefully we'll see more of it next summer.

rachdiggs

Mon, 24 Sep 2007 23:02:09 -0800

Oh, hee for f***ing sure. Good work jwb.

guest

Mon, 24 Sep 2007 22:07:29 -0800

dude, that's way more pink floyd than zeppelin.

guest

Mon, 24 Sep 2007 21:39:01 -0800

I'm surprised they had to cut off the ears because kids could climb to the top. I can't imagine any little kid going anywhere near that thing.

KWillets

Mon, 24 Sep 2007 21:21:33 -0800

Stonehenge!!

Brock Keeling

Mon, 24 Sep 2007 20:08:15 -0800

see, i love cupid's bow, but that's a losing argument. alas.

guest

Mon, 24 Sep 2007 20:05:16 -0800

When I first saw it I thought it had to be Don Fisher in an encore of the bow and arrow at the Embarcadero, which is equally bad.

RollingJ415

Mon, 24 Sep 2007 18:59:18 -0800

I liked the purple head! I had friends from out of town and although it wasn't the best public art I've ever seen (the bandshell in the panhandle was so much cooler) it was nice to show people that weird stuff just appears here for no apparent reason, and that's okay.

guest

Mon, 24 Sep 2007 18:58:20 -0800

Is the DeYoung metastacizing?

Brock Keeling

Mon, 24 Sep 2007 18:27:52 -0800

"Some Old Dead Bitch's Closet" Hee!

jwb

Mon, 24 Sep 2007 18:26:07 -0800

They also had to cut the ears off because kids could climb up to the top. This thing is not art unless you are deeply stoned, and I'm sad that they had to ruin some lawn to display this turd. On the other hand, a purple paper head is every bit as much "art" as is "Some Old Dead Bitch's Closet" which was the last big show at the DeYoung.

ChinaNob

Mon, 24 Sep 2007 18:20:56 -0800

I guess the homeless get annoyed by Burning Man too.