I was out there a few days after the vandalism. It was fully repaired and highly alarmed. Unfortunately the nearest responders were 50 miles away. The bottoms of all the replacement bags were cut-out. Marfa is a strange place to be sure.
Suture, that is probably the most brilliant comment I have heard re: Prada Marfa.
(I'm serious - no sarcasm. Something about Prada Marfa makes me sick to my stomach, it's so distasteful to me that I can't even ponder more deeply why it is that it makes me so angry. Part of it is definitely having grown up in the gorgeous open West which is now entirely gone.)
Grotesque displays of materialism in the face of extreme economic disparity will always lead to revolt.
If people dont have jobs, as is the case in some parisian ghetto suburbs where there is up to a 40% unemployment rate, $1,000 shoes and $1,000 purses are fuel waiting for fire.
Surely a parade of range rovers and leer jets flying past dusty railroad and truck stop towns on the way to the economic artificiality of Marfa must surely cause lots of resentment among the long time residents who because they are 30 miles away from Marfa the city proper miss out on sharing in on the art tourist dollars and spike in property values.
So i say, burn baby burn!
Burn Prada.
Burn Citroen.
wait, so money spent on an art project
which critiques the very things you are critiquing is money which should not have been spent because those of different values might resent it?
i'm torn. i agree, but i don't agree.
and vandalism is never good. resentment or not, you're destroying something which took effort and emotional and economic investment. (god, i sound like a republican...)
for my own peace-of-mind, i.e., so that i don't feel like such a d**n conservative, i'll point out that if you voice approval for vandalism of a project with which you disagree, you are giving tacit approval, also, for someone to vandalize YOUR projects with which they might take issue.
(there, that sounds much more empathetic and suitably liberal. i can relax now.)
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the french rioting has spread
I was out there a few days after the vandalism. It was fully repaired and highly alarmed. Unfortunately the nearest responders were 50 miles away. The bottoms of all the replacement bags were cut-out. Marfa is a strange place to be sure.
Suture, that is probably the most brilliant comment I have heard re: Prada Marfa.
(I'm serious - no sarcasm. Something about Prada Marfa makes me sick to my stomach, it's so distasteful to me that I can't even ponder more deeply why it is that it makes me so angry. Part of it is definitely having grown up in the gorgeous open West which is now entirely gone.)
too bad they didn't burn it
I think that the artists would be thrilled if someone burned it down.
yeah..."but not this quickly"
Liberty bell,
Grotesque displays of materialism in the face of extreme economic disparity will always lead to revolt.
If people dont have jobs, as is the case in some parisian ghetto suburbs where there is up to a 40% unemployment rate, $1,000 shoes and $1,000 purses are fuel waiting for fire.
Surely a parade of range rovers and leer jets flying past dusty railroad and truck stop towns on the way to the economic artificiality of Marfa must surely cause lots of resentment among the long time residents who because they are 30 miles away from Marfa the city proper miss out on sharing in on the art tourist dollars and spike in property values.
So i say, burn baby burn!
Burn Prada.
Burn Citroen.
wait, so money spent on an art project
which critiques the very things you are critiquing is money which should not have been spent because those of different values might resent it?
i'm torn. i agree, but i don't agree.
and vandalism is never good. resentment or not, you're destroying something which took effort and emotional and economic investment. (god, i sound like a republican...)
for my own peace-of-mind, i.e., so that i don't feel like such a d**n conservative, i'll point out that if you voice approval for vandalism of a project with which you disagree, you are giving tacit approval, also, for someone to vandalize YOUR projects with which they might take issue.
(there, that sounds much more empathetic and suitably liberal. i can relax now.)
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