{"id":293,"date":"2004-01-10T17:22:40","date_gmt":"2004-01-11T00:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/wp2\/uncategorized\/uptown-art\/"},"modified":"2006-04-18T10:01:45","modified_gmt":"2006-04-18T16:01:45","slug":"uptown-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/my-favs\/uptown-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Uptown Art"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here is my <\/p>\n

proposal for artwork in the Uptown Area.<\/p>\n

On the south side of the Louisiana overpass, let’s erect a larger than life Coronado en <\/p>\n

la Entrada crossing the Rio Grande (represented by the concrete ditch down the middle of I-40). Enjoy the irony that Coronado will never <\/p>\n

reach his mall.<\/p>\n

Before you get out your hacksaws, wait! Look to the North. Here we will place some representation of the Pueblo <\/p>\n

peoples (no, not a slot machine). I leave it to the many fine Native American artists in New Mexico to decide what is fitting. I do <\/p>\n

recommend the Marriott acquire a Chacoan facade, like the Homeland Court downtown (Bless the Homeland!).<\/p>\n

This memorial will <\/p>\n

perpetually represent the gulf between the First Immigrants, for even the Indians came from somewhere else — though I have no cognitive <\/p>\n

dissonance from the notion that they came from someplace else AND have always been here (I feel that way myself).<\/p>\n

What about the <\/p>\n

Anglos (not to mention Blacks, Asians, everyone else — which is par for the course)? We already have our memorial in the two malls, <\/p>\n

where we seek new bargains and homogeneity. I can’t wait until they build more stores between the two malls, finally putting to use that <\/p>\n

idle open space! [Updated 2006: they’re here<\/a>!]<\/p>\n

Most fitting to <\/p>\n

our age would be large digital screens which would perpetually flash advertisements and security alerts. We’ll take as our inspiration <\/p>\n

the rape of the National Mall in DC by NFL and Pepsi, featuring Brittany Spears, stripped of all decency (huh?<\/a>). Maybe these screens <\/p>\n

could occasionally show photos of the Sandias, which soon will not be visible from Uptown. mjh<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The <\/p>\n

Background<\/strong><\/p>\n

ABQjournal: Locals Split on Uptown Art Plan<\/a> By Lloyd Jojola, AbqJournal.com<\/p>\n

City residents had a chance to weigh in on <\/p>\n

the proposed design concept for two sculptures to be installed as part of the planned Louisiana Boulevard and Interstate 40 interchange <\/p>\n

reconstruction project.
\n The contemporary, cone-shaped public art pieces are influenced by desert geographical forms. The 36-feet-<\/p>\n

tall-by-64-feet-wide cone shapes would, among other things, allow rain to be captured and used to water the landscape.<\/p>\n

ABQjournal: Bowled Under: <\/p>\n

Proposed Uptown Art Criticized<\/a> By Lloyd Jojola, AbqJournal.com<\/p>\n

Everyone’s an art critic. The design for two Uptown sculptures <\/p>\n

costing about $300,000 and resembling “giant coffee filters” or “urns” has already received some colorful criticism, and it has yet to be <\/p>\n

the focal point of a public meeting.<\/p>\n

ABQjournal: Letters to the Editor<\/a><\/p>\n

Louisiana <\/p>\n

‘Cones’ Don’t Fit In<\/p>\n

The reason the proposed volcanoes stand out is because they are modernist kitsch\u00e2\u20ac\u201d statements about <\/p>\n

the ideal, circa 1945. I don’t care if the project makes an arcane reference to the idea of “Uptown,” so long as it incorporates an <\/p>\n

appropriate degree of complexity. At present moment, it strikes me as a “one liner” that has a $300,000 price tag.
\n JOSHUA ARNOLD<\/p>\n

Tijeras<\/p>\n

Arthur Alpert’s take on this:
\nAlpert’s Truth: I Become a Know-Nothing<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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