“wasn’t really right for our main stage anyway.”

Just reading this whole post gave me anxiety.

I still hope for a follow-up piece: I Wore a Tail for 1 Week and Learning Nothing; a reflection 1 year later

I was almost positive the final producer was going to ask you out while still giving you a rejection.

You pretending to be impressed by that spoon trick is a real talent

Should have worn the tail and done some kind of interpretive dinosaur dance, Joanna. I find this whole auditioning process way more interesting than the actual shows, which are almost always complete garbage, except for the different versions of Topmodel. About seven or eight years ago, a friend and I considered…

i def wouldn’t recognize jez staff on the street by face, but i agree with you - if i heard their names in public i’d definitely recognize them

And then when their work becomes public art, they fail to appreciate the fact that public art, by its nature, is at least partially defined in conversation with that public. So the Charging Bull sculptor fails to see how thirty years in the public eye has shifted the meanings associated with his work, and then gets…

From SoHo Gift to Wall St.: A 3 1/2-Ton Bronze Bull December 1989 NYT article

I haven’t ever ONCE been down there and not seen some bro playing with that bull’s balls. So much integrity. 

This is what sucks about sculptors. They’ve pursued an art form that is expensive to produce and that does not sell well and is underrepresented in the gallery environment. So they end up relying heavily on finding ways to fund their work, which a lot of times leads them to competing with one another over public works…

Ugh, I totes feel him. My middle school teachers just didn’t understand that I was intentionally tanking the tests because I was making a protest against standardized testing!

“...it is disrespect to the artist that made the bull. That bull had integrity.”

I think it is a stretch to call Gardega an artist. From the picture I can’t even tell that is supposed to be a dog, it looks like Fearless Girl is standing by firewood.

Say what you like about these various statues, but an art war is a far more enjoyable thing to witness than endless internet fights.

Gardega has supposedly been “seething” over the placement of the Fearless Girl, though he’s neither met her maker nor Di Modica. He told the Post, “This is corporate nonsense,” adding, “It has nothing to do with feminism, and it is disrespect to the artist that made the bull. That bull had integrity.

Oh no. An old white man didn’t like something and is now throwing a hissy fit. Someone teach these people how to control themselves and their emotions.

Butterfly pose. Swan pose. Weasel pose (bend at the hips, reach for passport)