tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8678563381059945321.post4331680319084125198..comments2023-07-30T07:00:04.659-05:00Comments on art : The MAC membership displayRRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14019290623201105161noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8678563381059945321.post-6366691261244060072013-08-25T18:13:31.383-05:002013-08-25T18:13:31.383-05:00Hey Brian, thanks for commenting. Definitely mixe...Hey Brian, thanks for commenting. Definitely mixed thoughts / feelings about this type of exhibition. One - I have never thought that artists should pay to be in an exhibition - The Texas Biennial is a terrible injustice to artists in Texas. The other, I suppose bad thought is that artists use the MAC membership show as a way to pad their resume. I'm not disgruntled, I hope you know, I see 150 shows minimum a year. So I feel entitled to have an opinion - maybe wrong and probably wrong many times. I agree, I had not thought that someone may want to be in a show with their hero. Heck I know many artists are my hero's too. And of course The MAC being a "community center for the arts" has never been realized. Mind you, I have sat in that café many many times having conversations with artists and notice that rarely if ever anyone comes through those doors - but that is another conversation. RRhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14019290623201105161noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8678563381059945321.post-34009575536594663742013-08-25T17:37:13.216-05:002013-08-25T17:37:13.216-05:00I believe you are looking at this exhibition incor...<br />I believe you are looking at this exhibition incorrectly. The MAC is always about the blend of established, up & coming and the unknown. This space is like a community center for the arts. When I was a young fresh artist this was the show that i got to "ḧang" with my local heroes. It meant something to me. You see it as slumming but I see it as giving back and providing perspective to both involved. <br /> There can be some painfully awful head scratchers here but I honesly have been offended more at some of the pretentious schlock at a Whitney Biennial.Brian K Joneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14367844919618128393noreply@blogger.com