{"id":1734,"date":"2010-03-04T07:43:38","date_gmt":"2010-03-04T15:43:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/?p=1734"},"modified":"2010-03-03T23:47:41","modified_gmt":"2010-03-04T07:47:41","slug":"curating-stripes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2010\/03\/04\/curating-stripes\/","title":{"rendered":"Curating stripes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.seattleartmuseum.org\/\">Seattle Art Museum<\/a> sent &#8217;round an email newsletter to announce upcoming exhibitions.<\/p>\n<p>One is called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.seattleartmuseum.org\/exhibit\/exhibitDetail.asp?eventID=18455\">Order and Border<\/a> (starts on March 6) and whoever wrote the newsletter did an excellent job by juxtaposing a short blurb with a particular photo, which, taken together, really made me want to see the exhibition:<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 175px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" style=\"border: 2px solid black\" title=\"SAM newsletter photo\" src=\"http:\/\/newsletters.seattleartmuseum.org\/dynamic\/new_images\/image_2_513.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"165\" height=\"130\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lakeview and Highland, Looking Northwest, 1979, Michael Burns, 1979, Gelatin silver photograph<\/p><\/div>\n<p>He or she wrote: &#8220;This image reminds me of a certain cell phone company&#8217;s ads (to give them credit, they are some of the least visually offensive ads I&#8217;ve seen). This supports the thesis of this exhibition\u2014that stripes are a fundamental visual element, appearing naturally in vertical lines as trees and in manmade products of all kinds, from street dividers to ornate fabrics. Order and Border examines how stripes decorate and structure objects, bodies and spaces.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">.<\/p>\n<p>The photo (if I read the credits correctly, by Michael Burns) is stunning (to me, anyway), and a brilliant choice for inclusion in the newsletter. The photo makes manifest the accompanying blurb&#8217;s comment: &#8220;&#8230;the thesis of this exhibition\u2014that stripes are a fundamental visual  element, appearing naturally in vertical lines as trees and in manmade  products of all kinds&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">.<\/p>\n<p>Convinced by the seeming effortlessness of the juxtaposition that the wisdom of this should be manifest in all sorts of other stripe-y examples, I did a google image search for stripes.<\/p>\n<p>Alas, here&#8217;s the first page of results:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"stripes, google image result\" src=\"http:\/\/img.skitch.com\/20100304-nq5ifs7qs6jrk6a1iis2611bbq.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"515\" height=\"224\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Sorry about the mingy size &#8211; click <a href=\"http:\/\/skitch.com\/yule1\/n285g\/stripes-google-search\">here<\/a> to see the screenshot in full size. I wanted to include all the examples of what was on that first page, a hodgepodge that ranged from vertical light  ray stripes to circles embedded in stripes to natural curvy (zebra) stripes  to painterly right-angled stripes to fractal stripes &#8230;even to that hideous shot of a  color-striped kid against horizontal fold-stripes of beige cushions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">When you see all the good (and bad) examples of stripes out there, you get a sense of what a good exhibition curator (or image editor) does.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An upcoming Seattle Art Museum exhibition has me thinking about the difference between good curation or editing and a quick Google search.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":311,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1823,1242],"tags":[14925,14926,14923,14924],"class_list":["post-1734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts-canada","category-just_so","tag-curating","tag-editing","tag-seattle_art_museum","tag-stripes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1734"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1743,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1734\/revisions\/1743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}