How I learned to stop worrying and love "useless" art: Luck Syson

Luke Syson, past curator of Renaissance art, has to attract a certain type of fan base. The audience would be filled with people that are fanatics about serious art.  They would know that the speakers was there to talk about the great masterpiece of Europe. On the other hand there must have been people that are more whimsical when it comes to art. These listener would have come because of the usual title: How I learned to stop worrying and love “useless” art. The audience was filled with art lovers of all types; from the Leos to the Andys. Syson doesn’t start off with his “useless” art but insures that the audience know that he is a serious art lover. This attract the audience that came for the Renaissance art and then goes off on the Barbie ballerina candle sticks.

The Metropolitan museum host the TEDx talks known worldwide. New York is an art scene; and a lot of artist and art lovers are attracted to the Metropolitan museum. Syson even says “here and the Metropolitan museum”, which gives you the location of the speech. It would not be hard to fill a room full of art lovers when the filers had the name of a current curator both of the Metropolitan museum and museum of Renaissance art.

Syson is trying to eliminate the bias of “useless” art and “serious” art. He is using his own story of moving form a serious Divinci exhibit to the more liberal Metropolitan museum. He is showing us that even a well-trained curator can judge art right off the back. Syson argues that that it was candle stick like this that caused the French Revolution and that the aristocrat that should get their head cut off.

By Syson bravely stating that even he would judge art by a look, gives the audience the security that he is just like them. As he speck the one can tell he is uncountable talking in at first. Syson specks very fast causing him to breathe very heavily.  His eye contact is to the ground, this is showing a nervousness. The nervousness is coupled with rapid hand movement.  Both moving is a circular motion. This changes after he reveals the “useless” art. His gaze is turn to the audience, he knew that this monstrosity would lighten the mood. After this he is more direct with the audience. Now his shortness of breath is from excitement, he is fumbling over words and using “um” or “uh” to let his brain and mouth catch up with each other. Syson is realizing by the laughter and the upbeat mood of the audience that his message is get through to them.

Luck Syson is taking his years of work with art and showing that even experts can make a bias judgment. He uses the medium of TEDx to talk educate the viewer to really look at something before judging it. He still thinks the candle stick hold was from the same idea as a Barbie ballerina but he looked passed the current state it was is now. He learned how long this took to make and magnificent the craftsmanship was. Syson looked at it with a new perspective and learned to value “useless” art. This lesson is something that ever art lover has to learn and Luck Syson was bold enough to show he makes that same judgment as t

My Thoughts on Robin Pogrebin's Saving Federal Arts Funds: Selling Culture as an Economic Force

Inspiration for this short essay came from Saving Federal Arts Funds: Selling Culture as an Economic Force

By ROBIN POGREBIN

Published: February 15, 2009  http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/16/arts/16mone.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 

Areas are judge by other surrounding areas. They are judged by things like: tourism, employment and school ratings and its local economy. Things like museums, public galleys, theaters and art programs help an area. Having easy access to the arts support impact the education of a community. The arts create jobs for people with all types of skills and training. By creating employment for a local community, its economy is stables. Representative Slaughter points out the facts that support the economy. The arts are a justified way to spend tax dollars.

            By creating easy asses to all types of art to the general public the knowledge of the community increases. Schools and universities will have more tools to teach with. This will have student interacting with what they are studying, instead of a photos in a textbook. Increasing the funding for the arts will increase job opportunities. Not just for the artist but builders, tickets rippers, mangers, and many jobs that need filling. This increases of employment on every level will give a community a more stable economy. The stores, venders, and restaurants around the museum, theater, or art center will have a positive impact. Each will create jobs and support the local economy.

            Art in all its forms are for everyone. Art is something that everyone can see or be a part of.  It is not a luxury like the Republican of Oklahoma, Tom Coburn, thinks. Unlike casinos and golf courses, art is for all social and economist classes. Art is something can help create and benefit form. Art is not a luxury it is a part of everyday life. For the local, state and federal government to help support the arts is a way of supporting the everyday American.

            It is risky whenever a system of government gets involved. It must walk the line between helping the arts and controlling the arts. The federal government should be involved in the funding and support of all art forms and their out lets but they should not have the power to control what the main stream public see in everyday life. A state government should take be able to say safety of the building or venue that art is going to be seen at or in. This is the power to keep the viewers, artist and workers safe. The local government knows its own citizens better than the federal government and should be able to make good choices on what the people can do or be a part of.  The Local government in Radford, VA is much different than the local government in New York, New York.  Each knows what type of art that would bring the most views and have a good idea of what sells. The local governments should have that type of power as long as is in the people best interest.