http://www.decaturmetro.com/2011/02/26/critic-agnes-scotts-my-sweet-sweet-exhibition-icky-outstanding/ Decatur Georgia News, Events, Atlanta News Tue, 16 Sep 2014 04:07:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0 http://www.decaturmetro.com/2011/02/26/critic-agnes-scotts-my-sweet-sweet-exhibition-icky-outstanding/#comment-97304 Mon, 28 Feb 2011 14:39:53 +0000 http://www.decaturmetro.com/?p=20705#comment-97304 Congratulations to Dalton Gallery for the rave review. I wonder who curated the show?

]]> http://www.decaturmetro.com/2011/02/26/critic-agnes-scotts-my-sweet-sweet-exhibition-icky-outstanding/#comment-97167 Sun, 27 Feb 2011 21:04:56 +0000 http://www.decaturmetro.com/?p=20705#comment-97167 Chris Billingsley: I agree completely. I would much rather my taxes be spent on what I think they should be spent on. Just think if the federal government had spent the money they spent on their illegal wars on a National Health Service! They’d probably have money left over to fund billions of photographs of people having kinky sex.

]]> http://www.decaturmetro.com/2011/02/26/critic-agnes-scotts-my-sweet-sweet-exhibition-icky-outstanding/#comment-97126 Sun, 27 Feb 2011 17:17:05 +0000 http://www.decaturmetro.com/?p=20705#comment-97126 Is this art, love, the true relationship between mother and child or deeply disturbing images of how far we have slid towards immorality? This exhibit may be suitable for New York City and maybe Atlanta but not Decatur. As a private institution, Agnes Scott is free to promote any view of motherhood it chooses but in my opinion, no state or local tax dollars should be used to to support this exhibit.
Just a few descriptions from the article: “… Few acts of sexual and romantic love are as oppressive and shocking as Kretz’s triumphantly perverse sewn tributes to maternal overinvestment. In “Stay,” she has aggressively, even violently, sewn a set of baby booties onto cloth with blood-red thread.
…Jackhammer,” in which a small baby, only her fat legs visible, drenched in white sunlight and glimpsed through the slats of a crib, has her gentle coos and rising cries contrasted with the sounds of a distant jackhammer.”
I would be interested in knowing what the response will be from members of the Agnes Scott alumni from the 1930s through the 50s. Would they agree that an image of a woman and man, dressed in bondage attire, is what their great institution should be promoting?

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