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<p>[QUOTE="all_fakes, post: 88682, member: 55"]I had to stop reading the comments. There can be a pretty good discussion as to how native artists should/should not deal with cultural change, traditional vs. non-traditional....but this sure wasn't it.</p><p><br /></p><p>I visited the Museum of Northwest Art in La Conner WA over the weekend; their current exhibition is "<a href="http://monamuseum.org/exhibition/not-vanishing-contemporary-expressions-indigenous-art-1977-2015" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://monamuseum.org/exhibition/not-vanishing-contemporary-expressions-indigenous-art-1977-2015" rel="nofollow">Not Vanishing: Contemporary Expressions in Indigenous Art, 1977-2015</a>"</p><p>Some of the art I liked, a lot of it I didn't; some of the artists seem to have confused "making a statement" with "making art" in my opinion. But at least the curators are thinking, not just spouting opinions and diatribes.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="all_fakes, post: 88682, member: 55"]I had to stop reading the comments. There can be a pretty good discussion as to how native artists should/should not deal with cultural change, traditional vs. non-traditional....but this sure wasn't it. I visited the Museum of Northwest Art in La Conner WA over the weekend; their current exhibition is "[URL='http://monamuseum.org/exhibition/not-vanishing-contemporary-expressions-indigenous-art-1977-2015']Not Vanishing: Contemporary Expressions in Indigenous Art, 1977-2015[/URL]" Some of the art I liked, a lot of it I didn't; some of the artists seem to have confused "making a statement" with "making art" in my opinion. But at least the curators are thinking, not just spouting opinions and diatribes.[/QUOTE]
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