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what's going on at the museum?

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  • pitu
    pitu
    there's a couple of hilarious posts on Gowanus Lounge about the party...
    a certain borough president's wife hoarding the murakami swag, and Gentrify THIS written on someone's bottom and submitted to the Bklyn Mus crowd-curated photo show :D
  • guvna
    guvna
    ChristinafromBklyn wrote: [quote=Guvna]look at how many donors insist on having their names on the buildings. At least its not the Brooklyn Ratner Museum. A single gala to recognize a long time donor is a great idea. Get off their backs. Their fight is not your fight at all. Why should it be? For all we know, BMA may have seen studies suggesting that a stadium will lead to more visitors at the museum! LOL Their interests do not have to align with yours.
    Yah, okeee, so let's get off their backs and give them some kudos for not being total, ill advised, insensitive, over the top suck ass, trolls. ( so maybe I've got some displaced aggression issues today-sorry-p.m.s but seriously)...
    I can appreciate why some folks go straight to the "Either you're with us or against us" mode, but in this case I think its a bit harsh on the museum.
  • alafairnadia
    alafairnadia
    sadly, the LV boutique sucked. my vintage LV bag was way hotter.
  • christinafrombklyn
    christinafrombklyn
    Guvna wrote: [quote=ChristinafromBklyn][quote=Guvna]look at how many donors insist on having their names on the buildings. At least its not the Brooklyn Ratner Museum. A single gala to recognize a long time donor is a great idea. Get off their backs. Their fight is not your fight at all. Why should it be? For all we know, BMA may have seen studies suggesting that a stadium will lead to more visitors at the museum! LOL Their interests do not have to align with yours.
    Yah, okeee, so let's get off their backs and give them some kudos for not being total, ill advised, insensitive, over the top suck ass, trolls. ( so maybe I've got some displaced aggression issues today-sorry-p.m.s but seriously)...
    I can appreciate why some folks go straight to the "Either you're with us or against us" mode, but in this case I think its a bit harsh on the museum.

    My mode is not "either you're with us or against us" (that's George Dubya mode! :D ). I have don't have an issue with the museum taking donations from the likes of Ratner. What I have said to the umteenth degree is that a gala HONORING him, ESPECIALLY now,(sorry for the caps mods but...)given what is going on around here, shows poor judgement and distaste in the extreme. And hey Guvna, if you don't agree, that's ok cause our opinions don't have to align. :P
  • filmlover44
    filmlover44
    leet wrote: Roberta Smith review of the Murakami show in the Times -

    http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/04/arts/design/04mura.html
    I saw the show today (and picked up my forsynthia). It was...interesting.
  • guvna
    guvna
    ChristinafromBklyn wrote:
    My mode is not "either you're with us or against us" (that's George Dubya mode! :D ). I have don't have an issue with the museum taking donations from the likes of Ratner. What I have said to the umteenth degree is that a gala HONORING him, ESPECIALLY now,(sorry for the caps mods but...)given what is going on around here, shows poor judgement and distaste in the extreme. And hey Guvna, if you don't agree, that's ok cause our opinions don't have to align. :P
    "Mr. Ratner, we just wanted to show you some appreciation for your support over the years, and highlight all of the projects that have been made possible through your very generous donations." If that is the focus of the gala, and he has been one of the larger donors, then I would cut them some slack. Thats all I'm saying. Do they normally honor major donors? Is he a major donor? I dont know, but if he is, and they do, then I would cut them some slack. But you're right - thats just me :D
  • karl the druid
    karl the druid
    alafairnadia wrote: sadly, the LV boutique sucked. my vintage LV bag was way hotter.
    murakami's new vintage bag is borough first lady jamie markowitz
  • alafairnadia
    alafairnadia
    Karl the Druid wrote: [quote=alafairnadia]sadly, the LV boutique sucked. my vintage LV bag was way hotter.
    murakami's new vintage bag is borough first lady jamie markowitz

    yeah, I heard she got 8 of them. bitch.

    what I want to know is this: where are the lifesize posters of the sculpture of anime-man coming??? I need one for my office.
  • whatchuwant
    whatchuwant
    They were placemats, not bags. Naomi Campbell got 6 when she went to the same party in LA. Now, SHE's a bitch.
  • alafairnadia
    alafairnadia
    Whatchuwant wrote: They were placemats, not bags. Naomi Campbell got 6 when she went to the same party in LA. Now, SHE's a bitch.
    placemats? lame.

    fyi, the dj set was awful. music was okay but he was NOT playing the crowd (totally didn't realize he got the most excitement when playing carib music and kept switching to new/old hip hop at the wrong volume). there were some massive technical issues which weren't his fault, but this guy clearly does not comprehend the brooklyn crowd. he could not get the crowd jumping for more than 30 seconds. took off halfway through his set in annoyance.
  • sweet tea
    sweet tea
    alafairnadia wrote: [quote=Whatchuwant]They were placemats, not bags. Naomi Campbell got 6 when she went to the same party in LA. Now, SHE's a bitch.
    placemats? lame.



    from the quotes i'm seeing online, our first lady is a real piece of work. tacky and rude. but i admit that's not the museum's fault. :wink:
  • whatchuwant
    whatchuwant
    alafairnadia wrote: [quote=Whatchuwant]They were placemats, not bags. Naomi Campbell got 6 when she went to the same party in LA. Now, SHE's a bitch.
    placemats? lame.

    fyi, the dj set was awful. music was okay but he was NOT playing the crowd (totally didn't realize he got the most excitement when playing carib music and kept switching to new/old hip hop at the wrong volume). there were some massive technical issues which weren't his fault, but this guy clearly does not comprehend the brooklyn crowd. he could not get the crowd jumping for more than 30 seconds. took off halfway through his set in annoyance.

    So, hold on a sec. Ala, dear- you were there?!?! Spill the rest of those beans!
    I went out for a walk to see it, hoping to get close to the window so I could make the guests uncomfortable by standing there face pressed and drool as they ate. Alas, the protesters presence had the cops create quite the barrier. My "give ME your money" face could not be seen from that far away.
  • alafairnadia
    alafairnadia
    Whatchuwant wrote: [quote=alafairnadia][quote=Whatchuwant]They were placemats, not bags. Naomi Campbell got 6 when she went to the same party in LA. Now, SHE's a bitch.
    placemats? lame.

    fyi, the dj set was awful. music was okay but he was NOT playing the crowd (totally didn't realize he got the most excitement when playing carib music and kept switching to new/old hip hop at the wrong volume). there were some massive technical issues which weren't his fault, but this guy clearly does not comprehend the brooklyn crowd. he could not get the crowd jumping for more than 30 seconds. took off halfway through his set in annoyance.

    So, hold on a sec. Ala, dear- you were there?!?! Spill the rest of those beans!
    I went out for a walk to see it, hoping to get close to the window so I could make the guests uncomfortable by standing there face pressed and drool as they ate. Alas, the protesters presence had the cops create quite the barrier. My "give ME your money" face could not be seen from that far away.

    no no, this was on saturday - dj muro - weren't you hyping him? he seemed like a good hip hop dj but not a good "make people dance" dj.
  • whatchuwant
    whatchuwant
    OOHHHHHH- ha! Did I not see the thread transition? My bad.

    So- he was bad, huh? I'm really surprised, I have a couple of mixes of his and they're pretty good. Wow- Roomie will be shocked to hear this as well....
    But his bag is old school- so I'm sure if he played some carrib stuff it was because he was trying to play to the crowd. I'm sorry though, it seems like that's all the First Saturday crowd wants is Carribean music, and that should be reserved for the Labor Day First Saturday. How many times can we "follow da leeeder leeeder leeeder!"
  • alafairnadia
    alafairnadia
    Whatchuwant wrote: OOHHHHHH- ha! Did I not see the thread transition? My bad.

    So- he was bad, huh? I'm really surprised, I have a couple of mixes of his and they're pretty good. Wow- Roomie will be shocked to hear this as well....
    But his bag is old school- so I'm sure if he played some carrib stuff it was because he was trying to play to the crowd. I'm sorry though, it seems like that's all the First Saturday crowd wants is Carribean music, and that should be reserved for the Labor Day First Saturday. How many times can we "follow da leeeder leeeder leeeder!"
    hehe. people just wanted to dance. the music was decent, but the technical problems were awful - the acoustics in there suck. plus it wasn't dance music so people just couldn't get into it. at 10 p.m. when everyone's been looking at art and drinking and are promised a "dance party" it's a little annoying when the volume/sound/music choice are all failing.

    I think this thread kinda became a hive-experience for anyone who was there friday or saturday night, in addition to ranting about thursday night.
  • MOD
    MOD

    Subject: Murakami

    Me and Papi were there this past Friday for the members opening of the Murakami show. Free wine and beer and lots of very cool art. And yes there's this life size anime figure with a lasso of sperm and across from it is a female with a tornado of breast milk surrounding her. Like porno action figures. I loved the whole exhibit. The music was lame and kinda odd mix of techno and 80's stuff but all cut up so each song was less than a minute. Plenty of people drunk dancing really badly :P and tacky LVuton bags for sale.

    http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/murakami/

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  • pitu
    pitu
    Too funny...
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    NYT CityRoom wrote: As part of their exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the artist Takashi Murakami and the luxury retailer Louis Vuitton have taken the very post-modern step of dispatching street vendors to sell real Vuitton handbags on the sidewalks outside the museum as if they were counterfeits. [Papermag]
    :D
    Has anybody actually seen this?
    'cause it's totally nuts and I find it hard to believe
  • ltjbukem
    ltjbukem
    apparently dj muro also showed up at 10:15 with only 45 min left and didn't really play his hip hop . more funk than anything else.
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