May 22-June
Lansing Art Gallery Downtown
June 6 - June 28
1208 & 1210 Turner Street Old Town Lansing
Overview statement
Do we need art to survive? Given concerns with the bottom line and the globalization of businesses and business practices, art seems to have become trivial and insignificant. It is simply something to match our new furniture. It no longer matters if that piece over the new leather couch is an original piece of art or a print, and no one seems to be worried about the difference between Manet and Monet.
The question becomes, what would happen if all of the world’s artists, art galleries, and art museums to decided to close shop? If you had one last chance to see original art, would you want it to say something? The Lansing Art Gallery near the Capital Building, and the Banyan Gallery and Studio 1210 in Lansing’s Old Town, are providing just that opportunity. A World Without Art will offer some of Michigan’s finest artists taking on some of the most pressing and important social issues facing Michigan, the US, and the world. This show will include photography, paintings, sculpture, poetry, and essays from all around Michigan. This is a great opportunity to see how the Michigan art community sees Michigan’s past, present, and future. Do not let this be the last time you will see art in Michigan.
visit http://www.worldwithoutart.com/
May 21st, 2008 at 3:39 pm
I think the world world would become a rather dull place, no music, no posters, no films, no galleries, no sculpture. Every read a Wrinkle in Time? The main charachter finds herself on a planet much like that.
On a side note in the last hundred years there has been a steady decline in fine art quality due to the “if it feels good go with it” approach in art schools that has superseded learning the fundamentals like dimension, light and shadow, use of color, sketching and reproducing the likeness of an object.
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